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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Potential Relationship to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

2001; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/00004691-200103000-00005

1537-1603

Aatif M. Husain, Patricia P. Miller, Sandra T. Carwile,

Restless Legs Syndrome Research

Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia in which there is enactment, often violent, of dream mentation. Although this syndrome is sometimes associated with neurologic disorders, psychiatric comorbidity is not typical. The authors present a unique series of veterans with RBD. A high incidence of comorbidity with post-traumatic stress disorder is noted. The literature on RBD is reviewed, and the coexistence of RBD and post-traumatic stress disorder is reasoned. The authors suggest that it is possible that similar neuropathologic processes are responsible for both conditions, at times in the same patient.