Potentially lethal behaviors associated with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: Review of the literature and forensic implications

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1475-1484

  Schenck, Carlos H ^a   Lee, Samuel Adams ^a   Bornemann, Michel A Cramer ^b   Mahowald, Mark W ^b  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Forensic science; Forensic sleep medicine parasomnia pseudo suicide; Geriatric medicine; Neurologic disorders; Parasomnia; Polysomnography; Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder; Sleep disorders; Sleep related injury sleep violence

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FLUOXETINE; MIRTAZAPINE; SELEGILINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

AGGRESSION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BEHAVIOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFENESTRATION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MARITAL THERAPY; MENTAL DISEASE; NARCOLEPSY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NIGHT SLEEP; NIGHTMARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASOMNIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STROKE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70350514893     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01163.x     Document Type: Review

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