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PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages 267-269Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE ASIA
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2001.00854.x
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melatonin polysomnography; REM sleep behavior disorder; tonic REM activity phasic REM activity
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Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia with clinical symptoms that include punching, kicking, yelling and leaping out of bed in sleep. Polysomnographic (PSG) finding showed REM sleep without muscle atonia. Clonazepam is generally used for treating RED symp toms but melatonin was reported to be effective so we reconfirmed the effect of melatonin on RED patients in the present study. We used melatonin (3-9 mg/day) which could ameliorate problem sleep behaviors remarkably, as well as %tonic activity in PSG variables. In the present study, melatonin was reconfirmed to be effective in RED symptoms, especially for patients with low melatonin secretion, while its mechanism was not clearly known in the present study.
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