Machine generated contents note: 1. Parasomnias: a short history Shannon Sullivan and Christian Guilleminault; 2. Epidemiology of parasomnias Maurice M. Ohayon; 3. Functional neuroimaging in parasomnias Eric Nofzinger; 4. The clinical evaluation of patients with parasomnias Imran Ahmed and Michael Thorpy; 5. Video-polysomnography of parasomnias Stefano Vandi; 6. Parasomnias due to medications or substances Rosalind Cartwright; 7. Parasomnias due to medical and neurological disorders Marco Zucconi and Oldani Alessandro; 8. Trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder and parasomnias Anissa Maroof and Thomas A. Mellman; 9. Sexsomnias Nikola N. Trajanovic and Colin Shapiro; 10. Medico-legal consequences of parasomnias Irshaad O. Ebrahim and Colin Shapiro; Part I. Disorders of Arousal: 11. Confusional arousals Gregory Stores; 12. Sleepwalking Antonio Zadra and Jacques Montplaisir; 13. Sleep terrors Christian Guilleminault and Meredith Broderic; Part II. Parasomnias Usually Associated with REM Sleep: 14. REM sleep behavior disorder Raffaele Manni and Terzaghi Michele; 15. Recurrent isolated sleep paralysis James Allen Cheyne; 16. Nightmare disorder Michael Schredl;

Part III. Other Parasomnias: 17. Sleep related dissociative disorders Christina J. Calamaro and Thornton B. Mason II; 18. Sleep enuresis Oliviero Bruni, Luana Novelli, Elena Finotti and Ferri Raffaele; 19. Sleep related groaning (Catathrenia) Roberto Vetrugno and Giuseppe Plazzi; 20. Sleep-related hallucinations and exploding head syndrome Michael H. Silber and Satish Rao; 21. Sleep-related eating disorder John W. Winkelman and Jessica Saunders; Part IV. Sleep-Related Movement Disorders and Other Variants: 22. Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements Richard P. Allen; 23. Sleep starts Sudhansu Chokroverty and Divya Gupta; 24. Fragmentary myoclonus Pasquale Montagna; 25. Sleep related leg cramps Renee Monderer and Michael Thorpy; 26. Sleep related bruxism Nelly Huynh; 27. Propriospinal myoclonus Giuseppe Plazzi; 28. Sleep related rhythmic movement disorder Timothy F. Hoban; 29. Nocturnal panic attacks Ravi Singareddy and Thomas W. Uhde; 30. Sleep-related epilepsy Carl W. Bazil; Part V. Therapy of Parasomnias: 31. Pharmacotherapy and parasomnias Rafael Pelayo and Srivastava Deepti; 32. Behavioral and psychiatric treatment of parasomnias Shelby Harris and Michael Thorpy; 33. Hypnotherapy and parasomnias Gina M. Graci.