Abnormal rapid eye movement sleep atonia control in chronic post-traumatic stress disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Post-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.

Methods

In 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.

Results

PTSD patients, both with and without DEB, had

SUBMITTER: Feemster JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8919203 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature