Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep: Irrelevant Epiphenomenon, Marker for a Potential Problem, or a Disorder?
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Periodic limb movements in sleep: irrelevant epiphenomenon, marker for a potential problem, or a disorder?
446 " Things are not always what they seem and the first appearance deceives many… " —Phaedrus by Plato, written 360 BC. A s a young sleep physician in a new field 20 years ago, it was hard not to get caught up in the excitement of periodic limb movements in sleep (PLMS) as an important indicator of poor sleep and the assumption that treatment was warranted to " normalize sleep. " After all, it...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1550-9389,1550-9397
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.26662