Chronic behavioral disorders of human REM sleep: a new category of parasomnia.
Sleep June 1, 1986 Carlos H. Schenck, S R Bundlie, M G Ettinger et al.
Four men, aged 67-72 years, had 4-month to 6-year histories of injuring themselves or their spouses with aggressive behaviors during sleep, often during attempted dream enactment. A 60-year-old woman had disruptive though nonviolent sleep and dream behaviors. Polysomnography did not detect seizures but did document REM sleep pathology with variable loss of chin atonia, extraordinarily increased...