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Aug 3rd, 2022 - Visual Hallucinations (VH) are among the most distressing of the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), as well as being prevalent, with estimates ranging up to 75%. Researchers have identified numerous correlates of VH in PD including ol...

Jul 27th, 2022 - Rapid eye movement (REM) without atonia is essential for diagnosing REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). Manual and automatic quantifications of REM without atonia (RWA) that use different criteria have been validated. This study compared the RWA qu...

Jul 25th, 2022 - REM sleep behavior disorder is a parasomnia that reflects the presence of alpha-synucleinopathy in the brain and is highly predictive of eventual phenoconversion to Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, or multiple system atrophy over th...

Jul 11th, 2022 - Assessing the Performance of Quantified REM Sleep without Atonia Methods for the Diagnosis of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: A Dog Biting its Tail.|2022|Ferri R,Schenck CH,|

Jun 28th, 2022 - Isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is prodromal for Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We investigated the use of cardiac [123I]meta-iodo-benzyl-guanidine scintigraphy ([123I]MIBG) and olfactory t...

Mar 3rd, 2010 - Modifying the sleep environment is recommended for the treatment of patients with RBD who have sleep-related injury. Level A Clonazepam is suggested for the treatment of RBD but should be used with caution in patients with dementia, gait disorders...

Aug 3rd, 2022 - Visual Hallucinations (VH) are among the most distressing of the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), as well as being prevalent, with estimates ranging up to 75%. Researchers have identified numerous correlates of VH in PD including ol...

Jul 25th, 2022 - REM sleep behavior disorder is a parasomnia that reflects the presence of alpha-synucleinopathy in the brain and is highly predictive of eventual phenoconversion to Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, or multiple system atrophy over th...

Jun 3rd, 2022 - Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a condition resulting in violent dream-enactment during sleep which affects millions of individuals in the United States, however therapies for RBD are limited and cause significant side effects....

Jun 2nd, 2022 - Approximately 40 subjects with Parkinson's Disease (PD) with REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) and Depressive Symptoms, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) with Depressive Symptoms, Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) with Cognitive Fluctuations, and Park...

May 24th, 2022 - Idiopathic RBD (iRBD) as a specific prodromal marker of α-synucleinopathy Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by abnormal behavioral manifestations and the loss of muscle atonia during REM sleep (i....

Apr 27th, 2021 - People who reported sleeping an average of 6 hours or less when they were 50 or older were 30% more likely to be diagnosed with dementia late in life compared with those who regularly slept 7 hours, a study of nearly 8,000 people showed. (Nature C...

Sep 30th, 2020 - Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is surprisingly common in athletes and may signal chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) caused by brainstem tau and Lewy body pathologies, new research suggests. CTE is a neurodegenerative disorder...

Jun 12th, 2020 - Patients with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at increased risk for altered REM sleep without atonia (RSWA), new research suggests. Atonia is the normal temporary paralysis of arms and legs that occurs during REM sleep; RSWA is ch...

Nov 12th, 2019 - Veterans may be at higher risk of idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorders, particularly if they have traumatic brain injury (TBI) or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to a paper published in Sleep. ©marcociannarel/Think.

Nov 12th, 2019 - Veterans may be at higher risk of idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorders, particularly if they have traumatic brain injury (TBI) or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to a paper published in Sleep. ©marcociannarel/Think.