Photograph by Laurent Fievet/AFP/Getty Images. Nearly three in
10 American adults say they have sleepwalked at least once, with
nearly 4 percent, or roughly 8.4 million people, saying they've
done so in the past year alone, according to a new study.
Researchers at Stanford University found that those who suffer
from severe depression, alcoholism, or OCD showed higher rates
of what researchers called "nocturnal wandering." Like others,
the study also linked antidepressants and sleeping pills to
sleepwalking, but said users’ underlying conditions may be
responsible in those cases. "I would like to correct the
impression that sleepwalking is rare," Maurice Ohayon, a co-
author of the study, told USA Today. "This is a huge number of
people." Indeed, CBS News reports that the findings, published
in the journal Neurology, were the first of their kind in the
United States since studies 30 years ago, when only 2 percent of
U.S. adults said they had frequent bouts of sleepwalking. The
new study was unique in that it re