Just Parkinson's
It is the region of the brain most associated with Parkinson's.
What is the substantia nigra?
This was the main finding of this paper.
What is sleep disorders within participants with PD were more frequent and often combined with other sleep disorders?
According to the article, this percentage of early PD patients had at least one sleep disorder.
What is 71%
This was the most common sleep disturbance among patients with PD.
What is insomnia?
PD causes the loss of this vital messenger neurotransmitter.
What is Dopamine?
It is the second most common sleep disorder among participants with PD.
What is REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD)?
This fraction of PD patients in the study had more than one sleep disorder.
What is one-half (~50%)?
Violent behavior and acting out dreams at night is characterized as this sleep disorder.
What is REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD)?
It is the most common clinical examination for motor evaluation in PD (hint: used in this study!)
What is the Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS)?
It is what Figure 1 depicts in this paper.
What are the combined sleep disturbances in PD participants?
It is the number of different types of sleep disorders assessed in the paper.
What is 5 (Insomnia, RBD, EDS, RLS, & SDB)?
A patient reports that during the day, they often fall asleep unintentionally and often feel tired and sluggish. This is an example of this sleep disorder.
What is excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS)?
These are two factors believed to be the reason behind PD.
What are the genetic and environmental factors?
Higher scores on this autonomic dysfunction scale were linked to having multiple sleep disorders in PD.
What is SCOPA-AUT?
This percentage of individuals with RLS also had insomnia.
What is 60%?
This sleep disorder is connected with longer PD duration in comparison to those without the sleep disorder.
What is Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS)?
It is the name of the symptom associated with slowness of movement/lack of movement spontaneity.
What is Bradykinesia?
This was the interesting finding about factors associated with insomnia in PD.
What is participants with insomnia were more often women and had a lower body mass index?
It is the median sleep time of participants with insomnia.
What is 342 minutes?
This sleep disorder had participants older than those without the sleep disorder.
What is Sleep-Disordered Breathing (SDB)?