Clinical markers of neurodegeneration in Chinese patients with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a disease featuring a loss of atonia during the stage of rapid eye movement sleep. RBD is closely connected with Parkinson ’s disease (PD). Many studies have found that a portion of patients with RBD (idiopathic RBD) eventually progressed to PD after years of follow-up [1–3]. RBD could also be an accompanying symptom of PD. Postuma et al. [4] reported that mild PD-like functional impairment occurred in idiopathic RB D. However, it was unknown whether similar clinical features would occur in Chinese patients with idiopathic RBD.

Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - September 2, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Ying Wan, Yi Luo, Jing Gan, Rongguo Hu, Mingzhu Zhou, Zhenguo Liu Source Type: research