REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER (RBD) IS A MULTI- FACETED PARASOMNIA INVOLVING REM SLEEP AND THE MOTOR SYSTEM IN WHICH THERE IS problematic
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“...he was thrusting his sword in all directions, speaking out loud as if he were actually fighting a giant. And the strange thing was that he did not have his eyes open, because he was asleep and dreaming that he was battling the giant... He had stabbed the wine skins so many times, believing that he was stabbing the giant, that the entire room was filled with wine...” —Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de La Mancha (1605), page 364, Editorial Juventud, S.A., Barcelona, 1995 edition (author’s translation)
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