Chronic Behavioral Disorders of Human REM Sleep: A New Category of Parasomnia
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Chronic behavioral disorders of human REM sleep: a new category of parasomnia.
Four men, aged 67-72 years, had 4-month to 6-year histories of injuring themselves or their spouses with aggressive behaviors during sleep, often during attempted dream enactment. A 60-year-old woman had disruptive though nonviolent sleep and dream behaviors. Polysomnography did not detect seizures but did document REM sleep pathology with variable loss of chin atonia, extraordinarily increased...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sleep
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0161-8105,1550-9109
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/9.2.293