Autonomic dysfunction in RBD - What can it teach us about disease progression?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 473-474

  Postuma, Ronald B ^a,b   Gagnon, Jean Francois ^b   Montplaisir, Jacques ^b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; CLONAZEPAM; MELATONIN;

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DREAMING; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PARASOMNIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PARKINSON DISEASE; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 45249102455     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.10.002     Document Type: Editorial

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