Restricted truncal sagittal movements of rapid eye movement behaviour disorder

Danielle Wasserman; Silvia Gullone; Iain Duncan; Mattia Veronese; Valentina Gnoni; Sean Higgins; Adam Birdseye; Emine Cigdem Gelegen; Peter J. Goadsby; Keyoumars Ashkan; K. Ray Chaudhuri; Giulio Tononi; Panagis Drakatos; Ivana Rosenzweig

doi:10.1038/s41531-022-00292-0

npj Parkinson's Disease (Mar 2022)

Restricted truncal sagittal movements of rapid eye movement behaviour disorder

Danielle Wasserman,
Silvia Gullone,
Iain Duncan,
Mattia Veronese,
Valentina Gnoni,
Sean Higgins,
Adam Birdseye,
Emine Cigdem Gelegen,
Peter J. Goadsby,
Keyoumars Ashkan,
K. Ray Chaudhuri,
Giulio Tononi,
Panagis Drakatos,
Ivana Rosenzweig

Affiliations

Danielle Wasserman: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)
Silvia Gullone: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)
Iain Duncan: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)
Mattia Veronese: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)
Valentina Gnoni: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)
Sean Higgins: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)
Adam Birdseye: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)
Emine Cigdem Gelegen: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)
Peter J. Goadsby: NIHR-Wellcome Trust King’s Clinical Research Facility, King’s College London
Keyoumars Ashkan: Department of Neurosurgery, King’s College Hospital
K. Ray Chaudhuri: King’s College London and Parkinson’s Foundation Centre of Excellence, King’s College Hospital
Giulio Tononi: Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panagis Drakatos: Sleep Disorders Centre, St. Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospital, GSTT NHS
Ivana Rosenzweig: Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-022-00292-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

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Abstract Unlike sleep-walkers, patients with rapid-eye-movement-behaviour disorder (RBD) rarely leave the bed during the re-enactment of their dreams. RBD movements may be independent of spatial co-ordinates of the ‘outside-world’, and instead rely on (allocentric) brain-generated virtual space-maps, as evident by patients’ limited truncal/axial movements. To confirm this, a semiology analysis of video-polysomnography records of 38 RBD patients was undertaken and paradoxically restricted truncal/thoraco-lumbar movements during complex dream re-enactments demonstrated.

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ISSN: 2373-8057 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry: Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
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