Screaming and punching 'Rem's sleep behavioral disorder', Parkinson's disease and dementia are at high risk
Aug 27, 2024
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Lapid eye movement (REM) is a stage of sleep in which the eyeball moves rapidly during the stage of sleep. People usually experience five to seven REM sleep sessions while sleeping, and when they wake up someone who is sleeping, they usually say they were dreaming.
REM sleep is a sleep that organizes mental activity during the day, and it does not completely fall asleep to the brain, but rather a certain EEG activity appears. It accounts for 20% to 25% of sleep and is a stage where you dream and store relatively complex information in your brain. Less REM sleep can lead to poor memory, anxiety, or depression. It is characterized by muscle weakness, irregular breathing and pulse, and fast movement of the eyeball during REM sleep.
REM sleep behavioral disorder is a disease in which muscle tension increases during REM sleep and excessive movement and abnormal behavior related to dreams. The older the man, the more common it is. Patients with REM sleep behavioral disorders act out violent dreams, such as confronting someone or being attacked and chased.
As a result, you can fall out of bed and get hurt, or you can attack and hurt your spouse who sleeps with you. These sleep-related trauma have been reported from bruises and abrasions to infrequent fractures and cerebral hemorrhages. REM sleep behavioral disorder is a problem of controlling motor paralysis in the brain stem that stops the body from moving during REM sleep while dreaming. It occurs a lot in the elderly and is also called 'senior sleep talking'.
Some studies show that talking or moving sleep talk has a high risk of dementia. If you talk or move your limbs when you dream, your brain's function to hold your body has weakened. REM sleep behavioral disorder is a sign that the brain is undergoing degenerative changes. According to a research team at McGill University in Canada, about 50% of patients with REM sleep behavioral disorder developed Parkinson's disease and dementia after 12 years of observation.
If there is radical behavior during sleep, a sleep test can be performed and diagnosed through the results. The sleep test is a test that simultaneously records several signals that appear in the body during sleep, such as brain waves, safety, jaw electromyography, and snoring. If an increase in muscle tension during REM sleep is observed in the EMG, and abnormal REM sleep abnormal behavior is confirmed, REM sleep behavior disorder can be diagnosed.
Kim Jin-hee, head of the neurology department at Ceran Hospital, said, `Rem sleep behavioral disorder is a disease that unwittingly executes dreams during sleep. Sometimes other diseases or psychiatric disorders in the brain can overlap"This disease can pose a threat not only to you but also to your spouse who sleeps with you, so rapid diagnosis and treatment are needed."
Manager Kim Jin-hee explained, `Rem sleep behavioral disorder is a sign that the brain is undergoing degenerative changes, and Parkinson's disease or dementia is often observed when the patient is followed up.' `Another dementia and early symptoms of Parkinson's disease include olfactory dysfunction, so if REM sleep behavioral disorder and olfactory dysfunction occur together, you should seek medical attention including sleep tests as soon as possible.'
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