REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 593-614

  Frenette, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Synucleinopathy; Dementia of the Lewy body; Multiple system atrophy; Parkinson disease; REM sleep behavior disorder; REM sleep without atonia

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; DONEPEZIL; LEVODOPA; ZOPICLONE;

AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRUXISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLOR VISION; CONFUSION; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVENING DOSAGE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NARCOLEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARASOMNIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SMELLING DISORDER; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGE FACTORS; DREAMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77951668925     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2010.02.010     Document Type: Review

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