Dream Enactment Behavior-a Real Nightmare: a Review of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, and Trauma-associated Sleep Disorder

Overview

Journal J Clin Sleep Med

Specialties Neurology
Psychiatry

Date 2020 Aug 18

PMID 32804070

Citations 13

Authors

Daniel A Barone

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Abstract

Dream enactment behavior is a phenomenon demonstrated in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, as well as with a more recently described condition entitled trauma-associated sleep disorder, which shares diagnostic criteria for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. While these conditions share some commonalities, namely dream enactment behavior, they are quite different in pathophysiology and underlying mechanisms. This review will focus on these 3 conditions, with the purpose of increasing awareness for trauma-associated sleep disorder in particular.

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