Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD): a window into early Parkinson’s Dr Tom Barber

Описание: Dr Tom Barber discussed his research into REM sleep disorder at Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre.

At OPDC, we're trying to look at people before they get Parkinson's, so we're studying a group of people who have a condition called REM sleep behaviour disorder. This is a condition where people move in response to their dream content and so they can display quite violent behaviours, sometimes during their sleep in response to their dreams. People who have this disorder have a very high risk of developing Parkinson's in the future. That means by studying them when they don't have Parkinson's, we might be able to look at the very early stages of how Parkinson's starts and spreads.