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Dagay A, Oz S, Katzav S, Wasserman D, Tauman R, Thaler A, Giladi N, Mirelman A. Overnight Distribution of REM Sleep Features in People with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Non-PD Controls. JOURNAL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE 2023; 13:1213-1223. [PMID: 37807787 PMCID: PMC10657693 DOI: 10.3233/jpd-230116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a leading predictor of Parkinson's disease (PD). Diagnosis is performed in the sleep laboratory by detecting pathological REM sleep without atonia (RSWA). The evidence on the overnight distribution of RSWA% is conflicting. OBJECTIVE To investigate the temporal distribution of the number of ocular movements per REM sleep minute (REM density), and RSWA% in people with PD and non-PD controls. METHODS All participants underwent a single overnight evaluation in a sleep laboratory. Clinical evaluation was performed on a separate day. REM density and RSWA% were compared between PD and controls both across four sleep periods and individual REM cycles. RESULTS A total of 51 participants with recorded RSWA in polysomnography laboratory were included, 28 with PD aged 64±9 years with a disease duration of 3.3±2.9 years, and 23 controls aged 55±8 years. People with PD had lower REM density and higher RSWA% compared to controls. As expected, REM density was higher towards the morning. In contrast, RSWA% was equally distributed across the night, for both PD and controls. CONCLUSIONS PD pathology affects REM sleep features, but not the overnight distribution of those features. While REM density increased towards the end of the night, RSWA% was equally distributed across the night for both PD and controls. Our findings have clinical implications for diagnosing RBD, as quantification of RSWA% in any sleep cycle is sufficient for reliably evaluating total RSWA% and reduced REM density may be a marker of PD.
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- Andrew Dagay
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Laboratory for Early Markers of Neurodegeneration (LEMON), Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Laboratory for Early Markers of Neurodegeneration (LEMON), Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sieratzki Sagol Institute for Sleep Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sieratzki Sagol Institute for Sleep Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Sieratzki Sagol Institute for Sleep Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Laboratory for Early Markers of Neurodegeneration (LEMON), Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Sieratzki Sagol Institute for Sleep Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Laboratory for Early Markers of Neurodegeneration (LEMON), Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Peters KR, Ray LB, Fogel S, Smith V, Smith CT. Age differences in the variability and distribution of sleep spindle and rapid eye movement densities. PLoS One 2014; 9:e91047. [PMID: 24599302 PMCID: PMC3944933 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The present study had two main objectives. The first objective was to compare the sleep architecture of young and older adults, with an emphasis on sleep spindle density and REM density. The second objective was to examine two aspects of age differences that have not been considered in previous studies: age differences in the variability of sleep measures as well as the magnitude of age differences in phasic events across the distribution of values (i.e., at each decile rather than a single measure of location such as the mean or median. A total of 24 young (mean age=20.75 ± 1.78 years) and 24 older (mean age=71.17 ± 6.15 years) adults underwent in-home polysomnography. Whole-night spindle density was significantly higher in young adults than older adults. The two age groups did not differ significantly in whole-night REM density, although significant increases in REM density across the night were observed in both age groups. These results suggest that spindle density is more affected by age than REM density. Although age differences were observed in the degree of absolute variability (older adults had significantly larger variances than young adults for sleep efficiency and time spent awake after sleep onset), a similar pattern was also observed within the two age groups: the four sleep measures with the lowest degrees of relative variability were the same and included time spent in REM and Stage 2 sleep, total sleep time, and sleep efficiency. The distributional analysis of age differences in sleep spindle density revealed that the largest age differences were initially observed in the middle of the distributions, but as the night progressed, they were seen at the upper end of the distributions. The results reported here have potential implications for the causes and functional implications of age-related changes in sleep architecture.
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- Kevin R. Peters
- Department of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Brain & Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Marzano C, De Simoni E, Tempesta D, Ferrara M, De Gennaro L. Sleep deprivation suppresses the increase of rapid eye movement density across sleep cycles. J Sleep Res 2010; 20:386-94. [PMID: 20819146 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2010.00886.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Cristina Marzano
- Department of Psychology-Section of Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, Rome, Italy.
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The functions of mammalian sleep remain unclear. Most theories suggest a role for non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in energy conservation and in nervous system recuperation. Theories of REM sleep have suggested a role for this state in periodic brain activation during sleep, in localized recuperative processes and in emotional regulation. Across mammals, the amount and nature of sleep are correlated with age, body size and ecological variables, such as whether the animals live in a terrestrial or an aquatic environment, their diet and the safety of their sleeping site. Sleep may be an efficient time for the completion of a number of functions, but variations in sleep expression indicate that these functions may differ across species.
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- Jerome M Siegel
- Neurobiology Research 151A3, VA GLAHS Sepulveda, Department of Psychiatry and Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, North Hills, California 91343, USA.
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