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CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 127, Issue 1, Pages 537-543Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.03.006
Keywords
Parkinson's disease; Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder; Polysomnography; Sleep transitions; Data-driven detection
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- H. Lundbeck A/S
- Lundbeck Foundation
- Technical University of Denmark
- Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen
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Objective: Patients with idiopathic rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) are at high risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD). As wake/sleep-regulation is thought to involve neurons located in the brainstem and hypothalamic areas, we hypothesize that the neurodegeneration in iRBD/PD is likely to affect wake/sleep and REM/non-REM (NREM) sleep transitions. Methods: We determined the frequency of wake/sleep and REM/NREM sleep transitions and the stability of wake (W), REM and NREM sleep as measured by polysomnography (PSG) in 27 patients with PD, 23 patients with iRBD, 25 patients with periodic leg movement disorder (PLMD) and 23 controls. Measures were computed based on manual scorings and data-driven labeled sleep staging. Results: Patients with PD showed significantly lower REM stability than controls and patients with PLMD. Patients with iRBD had significantly lower REM stability compared with controls. Patients with PD and RBD showed significantly lower NREM stability and significantly more REM/NREM transitions than controls. Conclusions: We conclude that W, NREM and REM stability and transitions are progressively affected in iRBD and PD, probably reflecting the successive involvement of brain stem areas from early on in the disease. Significance: Sleep stability and transitions determined by a data-driven approach could support the evaluation of iRBD and PD patients. (C) 2015 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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