Effects of long-term use of clonazepam on nonrapid eye movement sleep patterns in rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 399-406

  Ferri, Raffaele ^a   Zucconi, Marco ^b   Marelli, Sara ^b   Plazzi, Giuseppe ^c   Schenck, Carlos H ^d   Ferini Strambi, Luigi ^b  

^a OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atonia index; Chronic drug therapy; Clonazepam; NREM sleep; NREM sleep instability; REM sleep behavior disorder

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATONIA; NARCOLEPSY; NONRAPID EYE MOVEMENT SLEEP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASOMNIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID EYE MOVEMENT SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER SEVERITY SCALE; RATING SCALE; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP STAGE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

AGED; CHIN; CLONAZEPAM; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; GABA MODULATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOLEPSY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP STAGES; TIME;

EID: 84876798725     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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