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Article: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder: A sleep disturbance affecting mainly older men
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- The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Abstract: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder is characterized by the intermittent loss of REM-related muscle atonia and the appearance of elaborated motor behaviors (sometimes violent behavior) and vocalizations associated with dream mentation. Nine patients were diagnosed in our Sleep Disorders Unit with this syndrome during the period August 1997-April 2000. All were male, average age 67.9+/-6.9 years. The complaint of all our patients was the occurrence of violent or injurious sleep behavior mainly during the dream stage. Jumping or falling out of bed and slapping or beating their wives were more common. None had history or showed signs of dementia, Parkinson or other ...
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