In a long-term study of 1,280 patients with REM sleep behavior disorder who didn’t have parkinsonism – an umbrella term that ...

REM sleep helps with information processing ... participants who had other neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson’s disease. They also had several other exclusion criteria, such as sleep ...

OHSU researchers are trying to discover if REM Behavior Disorder (RBD) which involves thrashing sleep, leads to Parkinson's. Dr. Miranda Lim, an associate professor of Neurology at OHSU ...

REM sleep latency may be a marker for AD and related dementias. Prolonged rapid eye movement sleep latency may be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, according to ...

People with obstructive sleep apnea have an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, but if started early enough, continuous ...

While involuntary movements are normally inhibited during REM sleep ... to progressive neurodegenerative disorders, most notably, Parkinson’s disease and a related disorder known as Lewy ...

Across the UK, 3,000 patients are being recruited into this study which is funded by the charity Parkinson's UK. They are also investigating risk factors for the disease such as the role of REM sleep ...

The FDA has approved BrainSense, an adaptive deep brain stimulation system that can adjust therapy for Parkinson’s disease in ... of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, according to ...