Ondrej Bezdicek, Tomáš Nikolai, Jiří Nepožitek, Pavla Peřinová, David Kemlink, Pavel Dušek, Iva Příhodová, Simona Dostálová, Veronika Ibarburu, Jiří Trnka, Karel Kupka, Zuzana Mecková, Jiří Keller, Josef Vymazal, Evžen Růžička, Karel Šonka, Petr Dušek
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to investigate if prospective memory (PM) is impaired in idiopathic rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (iRBD). RBD is a parasomnia characterized by dream enactment and by REM sleep without muscle atonia. iRBD is considered as the initial stage of neurodegeneration with pathological storage of alpha-synuclein. METHOD: Sixty iRBD patients with polysomnography-confirmed RBD without parkinsonism and dementia and 30 demographically matched normal controls (NC) were enrolled in the present study...
July 2018: Clinical Neuropsychologist