There are countless stories of sleepwalkers suddenly
waking up and finding themselves naked in their backyards. Between 1
and 15% of the population are prone to sleepwalking, which involves
people getting up and walking around while asleep and often doing
bizarre things (1). Frequent sleepwalking can lead to health problems
since it interrupts normal patterns of sleep. But what causes
sleepwalking and are there ways to control it? How does this relate to
the structural mechanisms of neurobiology that we have learned over the
semester?