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CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST
Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages 1019-1037Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2017.1394493
Keywords
REM sleep behavior disorder; parasomnia; synucleinopathy; neurodegenerative disease; prospective memory; episodic memory
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- Czech Science Foundation [(GACR) 16-07879S]
- Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic [GIGH-16-28914A]
- Charles University [GA UK 64216]
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate if prospective memory (PM) is impaired in idiopathic rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (iRBD). RBD is a parasomnia characterized by dream enactment and by REM sleep without muscle atonia. iRBD is considered as the initial stage of neurodegeneration with pathological storage of alpha-synuclein. Method: Sixty iRBD patients with polysomnography-confirmed RBD without parkinsonism and dementia and 30 demographically matched normal controls (NC) were enrolled in the present study. Clinical assessment included Movement Disorders Society-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS), dopamine transporter single-photon emission computed tomography (DaT-SPECT) for imaging synapses of dopaminergic neurons in the striatum and a neuropsychological battery with embedded time-based and event-based PM measures. Results: iRBD differed significantly from NC in event-based PM, a number of event-based failures to recall intention and total PM performance (all p < .001) but did not differ in time-based PM and recognition. PM did not contribute to impairment of instrumental activities of daily living in iRBD. Despite being preserved in iRBD in comparison to NC, time-based PM correlated significantly with dopaminergic neuronal loss measured by DaT-SPECT. Conclusions: We show evidence for a differential pattern of PM impairment in iRBD with severe impairment of event-based and concurrent preservation of time-based PM. We theorize that event-based PM impairment in iRBD is caused by severe impairment of retention and recognition mechanisms in episodic memory whereas time-based PM seems to be affected by reduced striatal dopaminergic synapses.
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