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- Title
Sleep disorders in neurodegenerative diseases.
- Authors
Raggi, A.; Ferri, R.
- Abstract
The aim of this review is to provide data on sleep disturbances in three categories of neurodegenerative disorders: synucleinopathies, tauopathies, and other diseases (this heterogeneous group includes also spinocerebellar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Analysing and knowing sleep disorders in neurodegenerative diseases may offer important insights into the pathomechanism of some of these diseases and calls attention to the still insufficiently known 'sleep neurology'. The identification of sleep disorders in some neurodegenerative conditions may make their diagnosis easier and earlier; for example, rapid eye movements sleep behaviour disorder may precede any other clinical manifestation of synucleinopathies by more than 10 years.
- Subjects
SLEEP disorders; NEURODEGENERATION; PATHOLOGICAL physiology; RAPID eye movement sleep; FRIEDREICH'S ataxia; AMYOTROPHIC lateral sclerosis
- Publication
European Journal of Neurology, 2010, Vol 17, Issue 11, p1326
- ISSN
1351-5101
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-1331.2010.03034.x