What To Do If You Or a Loved One Experience Night Terrors
Insider: To avoid potential harm, ensure that the room is free of clutter, remove any sharp objects, and keep the person away from windows or stairs.
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Researchers ID Neurons in Mouse Brainstem that Suppress Movement During REM Sleep. It Could Be a Treatment Target for RBD, Narcolepsy, & Cataplexy.
When the researchers blocked the input to these neurons, the mice began moving during their sleep, just like someone with RBD.
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LatestREM Sleep Behavior Disorder May Be a Symptom of ‘Body-First’ Parkinson’s Disease
The researchers refer to the two types of Parkinson's disease as body-first and brain-first. They found evidence RBD is a prodromal phenotype for the body-first type.
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Mark W. Mahowald, MD, Parasomnia Pioneer, Dies at 76
Mark W. Mahowald, MD, who dedicated his career to sleep medicine—much of it as sleep center director at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, a part of Hennepin County Medical Center—died of pneumonia on March 18, with his family at his side.
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Sleep Physician Resolves Patient’s Sexsomnia with SSRI
Needing to avoid benzodiazepines, a clinical and research team turns to the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor paroxetine and finds it resolves a patient’s symptoms.