REM sleep in acutely traumatized individuals and interventions for the secondary prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder [PDF]
, 2020 Increasing evidence supports a close link between REM sleep and the consolidation of emotionally toned memories such as traumatic experiences. In order to investigate the role of sleep for the development of symptoms related to traumatic experiences ...
Bublitz, Jan Christoph +6 more
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Neurodegenerative disorder risk in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder: study in 174 Patients. [PDF]
, 2018 Objective To estimate the risk for developing a defined neurodegenerative syndrome in a large cohort of idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (IRBD) patients with long follow-up.
Fernández-Arcos, Ana +11 more
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Clinical Overview of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder [PDF]
Seminars in Neurology, 2017 AbstractRapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by loss of muscle atonia during REM sleep that allows motor responses to dream content. Patients display patterns of unusual, complex, and even violent motor activities. There is a high risk for harm to the patients or their bedpartners.
Porter, Verna R, Avidan, Alon Y
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Di-san junyi daxue xuebao, 2021 Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics and influencing factors of insomnia in perimenopausal women based on polysomnography (PSG). Methods A total of 52 perimenopausal women admitted to our psychological clinic due to insomnia were ...
ZHAO Yuan, CHEN Qingqiu, JIANG Chenggang
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Great nature’s second course: Introduction to the special issue on the behavioral neuroscience of sleep [PDF]
, 2016 Sleep is necessary for normal psychological functioning, and psychological function in turn affects sleep integrity. Recent investigations delineate the relation of sleep to a broad array of processes ranging from learning and memory to emotional ...
Cronin-Golomb, Alice
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REM Sleep EEG Instability in REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and Clonazepam Effects [PDF]
Sleep, 2017 We aimed to analyze quantitatively rapid eye movement (REM) sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) in controls, drug-naïve idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder patients (iRBD), and iRBD patients treated with clonazepam.Twenty-nine drug-naïve iRBD patients (mean age 68.2 years), 14 iRBD patients under chronic clonazepam therapy (mean age 66.3 years), and 21
Raffaele Ferri +7 more
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A PERIOD3 variant causes a circadian phenotype and is associated with a seasonal mood trait. [PDF]
, 2016 In humans, the connection between sleep and mood has long been recognized, although direct molecular evidence is lacking. We identified two rare variants in the circadian clock gene PERIOD3 (PER3-P415A/H417R) in humans with familial advanced sleep phase ...
Fu, Ying-Hui +15 more
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Rhythmic movements in sleep disorders and in epileptic seizures during sleep
Sleep Science and Practice, 2020 Rhythmic movements during sleep may occur in the context of physiological sleep-related motor activity or be part of sleep-related movement disorders such as bruxism, periodic limb movement disorder, restless legs syndrome, and sleep-related rhythmic ...
Rosalia Silvestri, Arthur Scott Walters
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Forensic considerations on violent parasomnias during lifespan [PDF]
, 2018 Nocturnal parasomnias are a group of sleep complex manifestation that don't alter the sleep macrostructure, but when persistent during adulthood may be assume violent aspects with relevant forensic implications about the ...
Cerroni F. +23 more
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Impaired glycinergic transmission in hyperekplexia: a model of parasomnia overlap disorder
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2019 We report sleep phenotypes and polysomnographic findings in two siblings with a novel homozygous variant of the GLRA1 gene causing hereditary hyperekplexia (HH).
Régis Lopez +3 more
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