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Actigraphy Enables Home Screening of Rapid Eye Movement Behavior Disorder in Parkinson's Disease

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Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a potentially harmful, often overlooked sleep disorder affecting up to 70% of Parkinson's disease patients. Current diagnosis relies on nocturnal video‐polysomnography, which… Click to show full abstract

Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a potentially harmful, often overlooked sleep disorder affecting up to 70% of Parkinson's disease patients. Current diagnosis relies on nocturnal video‐polysomnography, which is an expensive and cumbersome examination requiring specific clinical expertise. Here, we explored the use of wrist actigraphy to enable automatic RBD diagnoses in home settings.

Keywords: behavior disorder; parkinson disease; eye movement; rapid eye; disorder

Journal Title: Annals of Neurology
Year Published: 2022

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