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Night terrors are a confusional arousal resulting from immature sleep patterns with an intense activation of the flight or fight emotion.
Such confusional arousals rarely persist beyond childhood, and they are significantly less frequent or cease entirely after age 12.
Confusional arousal-A partial arousal state occurring during the fourth stage of deepest sleep.
Childhood night terrors are a form of confusional arousal.