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

John C FeemsterTyler A SteeleKyle P PalermoChristy L RalstonYumeng TaoDavid A BauerLiam EdgarSonia RiveraMaxwell Walters-SmithThomas R GossardLuke N TeigenPaul C TimmJarrett W RichardsonR Robert AugerBhanu Prakash KollaStuart J McCarterBradley F BoeveMichael H SilberErik K St Louis
Published in: Sleep (2022)
PTSD patients have higher RSWA than controls, whether DEB is present or not, indicating that REM sleep atonia control is abnormal in chronic PTSD. Further prospective studies are needed to determine whether neurodegenerative risk and disease markers similar to RBD might occur in PTSD patients.
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