Active Reward Processing During Human Sleep: Insights from Sleep-Related Eating Disorder

Overview

Journal Front Neurol

Specialty Neurology

Date 2012 Dec 4

PMID 23205019

Citations 9

Authors

Lampros Perogamvros

Patrick Baud

Roland Hasler

Claude Robert Cloninger

Sophie Schwartz

Stephen Perrig

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Abstract

In this paper, we present two carefully documented cases of patients with sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), a parasomnia which is characterized by involuntary compulsive eating during the night and whose pathophysiology is not known. Using video-polysomnography, a dream diary and psychometric examination, we found that both patients present elevated novelty seeking and increased reward sensitivity. In light of new evidence on the mesolimbic dopaminergic implication in compulsive eating disorders, our findings suggest a role of an active reward system during sleep in the manifestation of SRED.

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