rem behavior disorders การใช้

• REM behavior disorder is the only parasomnia routinely associated with violence.
• An increasing number of studies link REM behavior disorder to neurological disease.
• One is called REM behavior disorder, in which people act out their dreams.
• "Given the connection between REM behavior disorder and Parkinson's,"
• Similarly, REM Behavior Disorder occurs when patients have fits of violent behavior during REM sleep.
• And other drugs _ barbiturates and stimulants, for example _ can also contribute to REM behavior disorder.
• The UF professors treated Dreyfus for free last week because this was the first case of REM behavior disorder they've seen.
• And in the case of REM behavior disorder, one of the most studied parasomnias, investigators are finding surprising links to physical illness.
• All motor functions are typically disabled during REM sleep thus, motoric, i . e ., verbal elaboration of dream content, could be considered an REM behavior disorder ( see below ).
• Dr . John Winkelman, the medical director of the sleep health center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said he had seen a number of patients who developed REM behavior disorder while taking SSRIs.
• But in the last two decades, researchers have begun to systematically investigate a variety of disorders involving odd or dangerous behavior during sleep, including a condition called REM behavior disorder, in which people act out their dreams.
• Lack of REM atonia causes REM behavior disorder, sufferers of which physically act out their dreams . ( An alternative explanation of this relationship is that the sleeper " dreams out the act " : that the muscle impulse precedes the mental image.
• The connection between REM behavior disorder and Parkinson's is the latest twist in a story that began 20 years ago, when a retired grocer named Donald Dorff came to Schenck complaining of what he called " violent moving nightmares ."
• One man dreamed that his boss was chasing him with a hatchet; another that he was being pursued by a lion, said Dr . Bradley F . Boeve, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic who studies REM behavior disorder and Parkinsonian illnesses.
• As with Dorff, who died in 1999, and Smith, studies show that more than 80 percent of patients who show up at sleep disorder clinics with REM behavior disorder are men, middle-aged or older, and most, Schenck said, are noticeably placid and good-natured in their waking life.
• In 2000, Dr . Ilonka Eisensehr of the University of Munich reported finding a kind of " Parkinsonian fingerprint " _ a reduction in the enzyme that transports the messenger chemical dopamine in the striatum, the region of the midbrain where Parkinson's originates _ in the brain scans of patients with REM behavior disorder who did not yet have any other signs of neurological disease.
• For example, at the annual meetings of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in June, Dr . Carlos H . Schenck, a psychiatrist and senior scientist at the Minnesota sleep center, and Dr . Mark W . Mahowald, a neurologist and the director of the clinic, will present findings indicating that of 26 otherwise healthy patients in whom REM behavior disorder was diagnosed in the 1980s, 17 went on to develop Parkinson's disease.