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Aggressiveness in the dreams of drug-naïve and clonazepam-treated patients with isolated REM sleep behavior disorder.

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Abstract
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Although aggressive dream content is considered a distinctive feature of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) and patients often report violent dreams during medical interviews, nonviolent behaviors (eating, drinking, urinating) and pleasant actions (e.g laughing, singing, dancing) or simply elemental, jerky limb movements are frequently observed during video-polysomnography. As a first-line pharmacological treatment, clonazepam has been shown to reduce motor symptoms during REM sleep, but its effect on dream content remains unclear. Here, we aimed to prospectively assess the dream content of individuals with drug-naïve isolated RBD (iRBD) and iRBD patients treated with clonazepam.

Year of Publication
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2022
Journal
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Sleep medicine
Volume
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92
Number of Pages
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19-23
ISSN Number
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1389-9457
URL
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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1389-9457(22)00066-1
DOI
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10.1016/j.sleep.2022.02.022
Short Title
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Sleep Med
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