Category: Parasomnias

Parasomnias

Positive Sound Exposure Reduces Nightmares in Sleep Study

Investigators found that positive sound exposure, used in conjunction with imagery rehearsal therapy, produced promising results for individuals with nightmare disorders.

Veterans Find Relief from Nightmares with NightWare and Apple Watch
Which REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Patients Will Develop Parkinson’s? CND Works on Skin Biopsy Test for Early Detection of Synucleinopathies
Patient Presents With REM Sleep Behavior Disorder After COVID Infection
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Not Related to Poorer Surgery Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease
53 Crazy Sleep Walking & Talking Stories From Shocked Partners
$35 Million to Support Study of Sleep Disorder Linked to Neurodegeneration

Parasomnias

REM Sleep Disorder Patients Have Altered Blood Flow in Brain

"We can see complications in the small blood vessels of the brain in patients with RBD, although these patients don't otherwise have any symptoms."

Parasomnias

A Sleep Researcher-Psychiatrist Remembers Friend & Colleague Rosalind Cartwright

While we know Cartwright for her careful clinical studies of dreams, she was also a devoted psychotherapist, which influenced her sleep work.

REM Parasomnias

REM 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.

Non-REM Parasomnias

Should You Avoid Waking a Sleepwalker?

Snopes investigates the old myth holds that waking a sleepwalker could cause serious harm.