For Parkinson’s disease, one of the symptoms of an already developing neurodegenerative process (even 10-20 years before motor symptoms) is a violation of the patient’s behavior in the REM sleep phase. For this reason, the patient begins to twitch in his sleep, and in some cases, bruises may remain on his partner’s body. Sergei Illarioshkin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, deputy director for scientific work of the Scientific Center for Neurology, told socialbites.ca.
“He waves his arms around in his sleep and throws all kinds of objects off the nightstand shelves. “This is a sign of pathology developing in the parts of the brain that are responsible for controlling sleep mechanisms and are present in the very early stages of the disease,” he said.
Normally, during the REM sleep phase, a person’s muscle tone turns off, but in a person with Parkinson’s disease, pathology of certain nuclei of the brainstem causes the tone to be maintained. And such a person begins to “participate” in his dream in his dream.
“A case was described in the USA where a husband strangled his wife during such an attack. And in the end, he was spared criminal liability because they did polysomnography, recorded his brain activity, and proved that he suffered from REM sleep behavior disorder,” Illarioshkin said.
Sometimes a married couple wakes up with bruises received by their sick husband because he moved in his sleep. For this reason, husband and wife cannot be in the same bed most of the time.
“If a person has such an isolated disorder, then within 10-15 years with a 70% probability he will develop Parkinson’s disease or dementia with Lewy bodies or multiple system atrophy – three diseases associated with alpha-synuclein pathology,” concluded the expert.
Learn more about the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment of the disease, as well as what awaits such patients in 10 years. report Illarioshkina “socialbites.ca”.
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