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Newest in this topic

  1. Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder and Neurodegenerative Diseases: An Update 2020-03-09
  2. Dopamine transporter imaging deficit predicts early transition to synucleinopathy in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder 2017-09-01
  3. Rapid eye movement sleep disruption and sleep fragmentation are associated with increased orexin-A cerebrospinal-fluid levels in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease 2016-01-21

Studies

9 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1996 to 2020

Top journals

  • Annals of neurology 2
  • Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2
  • Aging and disease 1
  • Brain research bulletin 1
  • Neurobiology of aging 1

7 journals in all.

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  1. Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder and Neurodegenerative Diseases: An Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging and disease 2020-03-09 Brain scans and imaging

    Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a sleep behavior disorder characterized by abnormal behaviors and loss of muscle atonia during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

  2. Dopamine transporter imaging deficit predicts early transition to synucleinopathy in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2017-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    DAT-SPECT identifies IRBD patients at short-term risk for synucleinopathy.

  3. Rapid eye movement sleep disruption and sleep fragmentation are associated with increased orexin-A cerebrospinal-fluid levels in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2016-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    The orexin system has been investigated in patients affected by mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) by measuring orexin-A concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and correlated to subjective and objective sleep parameters, quantified by questionnaires and polysomnography, respectively.

  4. The Clinical Phenotype of Idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder at Presentation: A Study in 203 Consecutive Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Sleep 2016-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We report the largest IRBD cohort observed in a single center to date and highlight frequent features that were not reported or not sufficiently emphasized in previous publications.

  5. Probable rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder increases risk for mild cognitive impairment and Parkinson disease: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2012-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    In this population-based cohort study, we observed that pRBD confers a 2.2-fold increased risk of developing MCI/PD over 4 years.

  6. Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder and subtypes in autopsy-confirmed dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2011-10-28 Brain scans and imaging

    The purpose of this study was to determine whether dementia with Lewy bodies with and without probable rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder differ clinically or pathologically.

  7. Olfactory deficit in idiopathic rapid eye movements sleep behavior disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain research bulletin 2006-08-07 Brain scans and imaging

    The olfactory deficit found in most idiopathic RBD patients shares similarities with that described in PD and may be a sign of a widespread neurodegenerative process.

  8. Impaired rapid eye movement sleep in the Tg2576 APP murine model of Alzheimer's disease with injury to pedunculopontine cholinergic neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of pathology 2005-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Impaired rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) is commonly observed in Alzheimer's disease, suggesting injury to mesopontine cholinergic neurons.

  9. Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder preceding Parkinson's disease with therapeutic response to levodopa

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 1996-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) involves complex behavior and a loss of muscle atonia occurring during REM sleep.

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