ArticleSleep2022
Abnormal rapid eye movement sleep atonia control in chronic post-traumatic stress disorder.
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- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Risk of Degenerative Synucleinopathies: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Genetic associations between post-traumatic stress disorder and REM-sleep behavior disorder.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder and REM-sleep behavior disorder: exploring genetic associations and causal links.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Sleeping Paralysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2024Review
- Rates and Predictors of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Symptoms Among Post-9/11 Veterans.The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Article
- Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An Integrative Review.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- The influence of sleep on fear extinction in trauma-related disorders.Neurobiology of stress · 2023Article
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objectivesPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) share some common features including prominent nightmares and sleep disturbances. We aimed to comparatively analyze REM sleep without atonia (RSWA) between patients with chronic PTSD with and without dream enactment behavior (DEB), isolated RBD (iRBD), and controls.
methodsIn this retrospective study, we comparatively analyzed 18 PTSD with DEB (PTSD+DEB), 18 PTSD without DEB, 15 iRBD, and 51 controls matched for age and sex. We reviewed medical records to determine PTSD clinical features and quantitatively analyzed RSWA. We used nonparametric analyses to compare clinical and polysomnographic features.
resultsPTSD patients, both with and without DEB, had significantly higher RSWA than controls (all p < .025, excepting submentalis phasic duration in PTSD+DEB). Most RSWA measures were also higher in PTSD+DEB than in PTSD without DEB patients (all p < .025).
conclusionsPTSD patients have higher RSWA than controls, whether DEB is present or not, indicating that REM sleep atonia control is abnormal in chronic PTSD. Further prospective studies are needed to determine whether neurodegenerative risk and disease markers similar to RBD might occur in PTSD patients.
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