"PD & Sleep" Huffington Post
 

"A study from Denmark's Center for Healthy Ageing and the Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, among other places, explains how dreams may hold the clue that people may be on track to develop Parkinson's. Researchers found that one of the earliest symptoms of Parkinson's may be a REM sleep disorder known as REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD). "
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This highly active dreaming can appear up to eight years before the onset of other symptoms of Parkinson's, so researchers are eager to see if they can use this to help patients before the disease becomes too severe.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mic..._b_845167.html

This is interesting. My Dad has for a long time had wild dreams in which he flies, fights wars, etc. And approx. 5+ years ago, he flung himself out of bed and broke his shoulder. I used to envy his vivid dreams ... now, maybe not so much! He was diagnosed a year ago and started on paroxetine (mentioned in RBD link posted above) and gets very little contiguous sleep... I have printed a copy to bring up when we see a movement disorder specialist on May 5. Sounds like a LOT of things can come together to inhibit sleep....

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