REM Sleep behaviour disorder in older individuals: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and management

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 457-470

  Trotti, Lynn Marie ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; DESIPRAMINE; DONEPEZIL; LEVODOPA; MELATONIN; OXYBATE SODIUM; PRAMIPEXOLE; RIVASTIGMINE; ZOPICLONE;

BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELDERLY CARE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MONRING HEADACHE; MORNING SLEEPINESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOUR DISORDER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DREAMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77953245716     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11536260-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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