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The Human Dimension of RBD

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The human dimension of RBD encompasses the experience of RBD in the patient and in the spouse affected by the RBD, and the adverse physical, psychological, marital, and quality-of-life consequences from the RBD, including both idiopathic RBD (iRBD) and RBD associated with Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders.

“In all of us, even in good men,

there is a lawless, wild-beast nature

which peers out in sleep.”

(Plato, The Republic)

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Note Added in Proof:

A recent case of antidepressant-induced RBD with major injuries has been published [26]. And in regards to biting during RBD episodes described in section 2.1 and in references [10,11,12], the differential diagnosis of sleep-related biting has recently been published [27].

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  1. Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, and Departments of Psychiatry, Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Carlos H. Schenck

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  1. Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Departments of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School and Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Carlos H. Schenck

  2. Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Birgit Högl

  3. Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Aleksandar Videnovic

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Schenck, C.H. (2019). The Human Dimension of RBD. In: Schenck, C., Högl, B., Videnovic, A. (eds) Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90152-7_2

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