Parkinsonian tremor loses its alternating aspect during non-REM sleep and is inhibited by REM sleep.
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- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 53 (9) , 749-753
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.53.9.749
Abstract
Non-REM sleep transforms the waking alternating Parkinsonian tremor into subclinical repetitive muscle contractions whose amplitude and duration decrease as non-REM sleep progresses from stages I to IV. During REM sleep Parkinsonian tremor disappears while the isolated muscle events increase significantly.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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