In a major breakthrough finding on healing sleepwalking or somnambulism, scientists have proposed that a faulty chromosome present in brain could be responsible for a person’s behavior while he/she is in sound sleep.
According to the present study, DNA plays a pivotal role in controlling the behavior of a sleepwalker.
A team of investigators headed by Dr. Christina Gurnett from the Washington University School of Medicine initiated the research that aimed to find the reason behind sleepwalking.
Dr. Gurnett said, "It is likely that several genes will be involved. What we have found is the first genetic locus for sleepwalking. We do not know yet which of the genes in this linkage region of chromosome 20 will be responsible.”
