Gender-Related Diagnostic Issues
Violent or sexual activity during sleepwalking episodes is more likely to occur in adults.
Eating during sleepwalking epis odes is more commonly seen in females. Sleepwalking oc-
curs more often in females during childhood but more often in males during adulthood. 
Older children and adults provide a more de tailed recollection of fearful images asso-
ciated with sleep terrors than do younger ch ildren, who are more likely to have complete
amnesia or report only a vague sense of fear. Among children, sleep terrors are more com-
mon in males than in females. Among adults, the sex ratio is even.