SOREMs in Sleep Clinic Patients: Association with Sleepiness, Alertness and Fatigue
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S onset rapid eye movement sleep (SOREM) is an abnormal sleep phenomenon characterized by having REM sleep occurrence within 15 minutes from the onset of nighttime sleep or daytime napping. SOREMs are commonly recognized as one of the main features of narcolepsy (1). However, SOREMs have been reported to occur with other sleep, psychiatric and medical disorders, such as OSA (2), major depression (3), alcoholism (4), sleepwake schedule disturbances (5), Prader-Willi Syndrome (6), neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (7), schizophrenia (8), frequent periodic limb movements (9) and Kleine-Levin syndrome (10). SOREMs SOREMs in Sleep Clinic Patients: Association with Sleepiness, Alertness and Fatigue
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