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Subtle gait and balance impairments occur in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder.

Kaylena A Ehgoetz MartensElie MatarJulie M HallJoseph PhillipsJennifer Y Y SzetoArnaud GouelleRonald R GrunsteinGlenda M HallidaySimon J G Lewis
Published in: Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society (2019)
This study demonstrates that iRBD patients have subtle gait impairments, which likely reflect early progressive degeneration in brainstem regions that regulate both REM sleep and gait coordination. Such gait assessments may be useful as a diagnostic preclinical screening tool for future fulminant gait abnormalities for trials of disease-preventive agents. © 2019 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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