What is REM sleep disorder? REM sleep disorder (RBD) is a type of parasomnia associated with synucleinopathies ––a diverse group of neurodegenerative disorders thought to share a common pathologic ...

A little-known and poorly understood sleep disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement, or REM, stage of sleep has been garnering attention for its role in foreshadowing neurodegenerative brain ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. The AI-based algorithm analyzed movements during REM ...

In 1982, retiree Donald Dorff was the first person to be diagnosed with a sleep disorder that, unbeknownst to him at the time, would unlock monumental breakthroughs in research for dementia and ...

A Mount Sinai-led team of researchers has enhanced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered algorithm to analyze video recordings of clinical sleep tests, ultimately improving accurate diagnosis of a ...

Parkinson's disease patients who experience freezing of gait (a sudden inability to initiate or continue movement, often resulting in a fall) wake up several times during the night, feel sleepy during ...

Dual orexin receptor antagonists (DORAs), a class of drugs approved to treat insomnia, may also be effective for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), a new study suggests. About 3 million ...

Imagine waking up in the morning only to be told that you didn’t spend all night curled up in bed. Instead, you maybe drove a car or ate last night’s leftover pizza. Perhaps you even initiated sex ...

You're gently drifting off to sleep when suddenly your arms and legs convulse and you jolt yourself awake. Or, perhaps you're relaxing in bed when, out of the blue, your dozing partner does an ...

Host Mark Evans welcomes back sleep medicine specialist Dr. Srinivasan Devanathan along with nurse practitioner Desiree Heim for an in-depth discussion on REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD)—a condition ...