REM sleep disorder linked to depression
‘The onset of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, or RBD, at a young age appears to be connected to anti-depressant use, says a U.S. study.
RBD is a sleep disorder where patients act out their dreams that results from a loss of normal muscle paralysis in rapid eye movement sleep, the dream stage of sleep, which normally prevents enacting one’s dreams, according to Dr. Maja Tippmann-Peikert, a sleep medicine specialist and neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
“Our findings suggest that RBD in younger patients — in the 30s instead of the usual age of the 50s or older — is frequently linked to anti-depressant use,” says study leader Dr. R. Robert Auger, a Mayo Clinic sleep medicine specialist and psychiatrist.’
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