REM sleep behavior disorder and excessive startle reaction to visual stimuli in a patient with pontine lesions

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 697-700

  Peter, Anita ^a   Hansen, Marie Luise ^a   Merkl, Angela ^a   Voigtländer, Stefanie ^a   Bajbouj, Malek ^a   Danker Hopfe, Heidi ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALLOPURINOL; ENALAPRIL; ESOMEPRAZOLE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; LEVODOPA; METOPROLOL; MIRTAZAPINE; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GOUT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPEREKPLEXIA; INSOMNIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NIGHTMARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STARTLE REFLEX; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VISUAL STIMULATION; VIVID DREAM;

AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 48449092514     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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