I couldn’t find the right forum for this question, so here goes:
My friends girlfriend is suffering from “REM behaviour disorder” and I really feel sorry for her, she have hurt herself many times (falling down stairs, walking into walls, etc)
Now I want to know if there’s a way to cure this behavour?
If so please tell me how help her.
Im not 100% sure but i thought ive seen the thread about while ago.Try looking it up,there might be some info.Unfortunately i cand dig it out for you,really no idea where it was…try playing a bit with search button for “disorder”
good luck.
Dreamquest its a neurological dissorder!
I think it has to do with the brainpart we call the pons!
Ask a sleep researcher or your docter, maybe there is medication.
I really have no idea if there is any medication for it.
How ever i remember on tv they found out it had do do with a special protein.
So i think maybe in 10 years or so effective medication will be there.
Ive heard of this disorder, I dont know of any medicine or operation that could fix it. But you should get your friend into lucid dreaming, and everytime she knows shes dreaming she should wake up. Tell her not to do any thing like flying in the dream cause she could jump put of a window or something. But yea, thats all i can think of for this disorder.
I did some research on google. Some things I’ve found:
If the abnormal behaviour occurs frequently treatment may be needed. A medication called clonazepam (in the same group as valium) can be used and is usually effective. Other short acting benzodiazepine such as temazepam are also effective.
REM Behaviour Disorder: is a condition of dream activity reflection through purposeful elaborate and sometimes violent movements. 90% of the patients of this disorder are men with a mean age at onset of 60 years although only one case has been described in a 10 year old girl.
Organic basis is found in 40% of patients and these include dementia, olivo-ponto-cerebellar degeneration, cerebellar astrocytoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage and Guillain-Barre syndrome. EEG indicates that slow wave sleep is higher than in similar age population and consists of characteristic low voltage mixed activities typical of REM sleep phasic eye movements are increased indirectly nocturnal myoclonus and aperiodic like twitching occurs in non REM sleep.
Treatment mainly is with pharmacotherapy and includes benzodiazepine or tricyclic agents. The most commonly used drug is clonazepam in 1-2mg, a divided day dosage and norpramin in low therapeutic range. Advising the patient to have a safe bedroom environment is another conservative treatment which reduces the danger of further injury.
The treatment of rapid eye movement behavior disorder is as follows:
Treatment for REM behavior disorder is initiated with clonazepam at 0.5-1.5 mg taken at bedtime. This medication has been shown to be beneficial in the long-term. Drug discontinuation often results in prompt relapse. The exact mechanism of action of clonazepam in patients with REM behavior disorder is not known, but its serotonergic properties may inhibit nocturnal motor activity in the brainstem and thus prevent arousals. Tricyclic antidepressants occasionally are used in the treatment of REM behavior disorder.
Imipramine, which has serotonergic effects, has been used in the treatment of REM behavior disorder, but the effects are unpredictable.
Anecdotal reports of levodopa/carbidopa, gabapentin, and clonidine have been published, but the benefit of these drugs has not been systemically evaluated.