Chronic behavioral disorders of human REM sleep: a new category of parasomnia

CH Schenck, SR Bundlie, MG Ettinger, MW Mahowald - Sleep, 1986 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Delayed emergence of a parkinsonian disorder in 38% of 29 older men initially diagnosed with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

CH Schenck, SR Bundlie, MW Mahowald - Neurology, 1996 - AAN Enterprises
We report longitudinal data on a group of 29 male patients 50 years of age or older who
were initially diagnosed as having idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) after …

Delayed emergence of a parkinsonian disorder or dementia in 81% of older men initially diagnosed with idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a 16 …

CH Schenck, BF Boeve, MW Mahowald - Sleep medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective To provide a 16-year update from the authors’ 1996 report documenting a 38%
conversion from idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) to a …

Proposed diagnostic criteria for night eating syndrome

…, Y Latzer, O Tzischinsky, MW Mahowald… - … Journal of Eating …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To propose criteria for diagnosis of the night eating syndrome (NES). Method: An
international research meeting was held in April 2008, and consensus criteria for NES …

Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a treatable parasomnia affecting older adults

CH Schenck, SR Bundlie, AL Patterson, MW Mahowald - Jama, 1987 - jamanetwork.com
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia defined by
intermittent loss of electromyographic atonia during REM sleep with emergence of complex and …

Postoperative respiratory compromise in children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: can it be anticipated?

GM Rosen, RP Muckle, GS Goding, MW Mahowald… - …, 1994 - publications.aap.org
Objective. The aim of this research was to describe the postoperative respiratory complications
after tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy (T and/or A) in children with obstructive sleep …

Insights from studying human sleep disorders

MW Mahowald, CH Schenck - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Problems with sleep are one of the commonest reasons for seeking medical attention.
Knowledge gained from basic research into sleep in animals has led to marked advances in the …

REM sleep behaviour disorder: an update on a series of 96 patients and a review of the world literature

…, TD Hurwitz, MW Mahowald - Journal of sleep …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is an injurious clinical disorder of attempted dream‐enactment
(‘oneirism’) in humans which has a corresponding experimental animal model …

Long-term, nightly benzodiazepine treatment of injurious parasomnias and other disorders of disrupted nocturnal sleep in 170 adults

CH Schenck, MW Mahowald - The American journal of medicine, 1996 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To assess the efficacy, dose stability, safety, and abuse potential of long-term,
nightly benzodiazepine treatment of chronic disorders of disrupted nocturnal sleep. PATIENTS …

A polysomnographic and clinical report on sleep-related injury in 100 adult patients.

…, TD Hurwitz, SR Bundlie, MW Mahowald - The American journal …, 1989 - europepmc.org
In 100 consecutive adults who came to a sleep disorders center complaining of repeated
nocturnal injury, polysomnographic study identified five disorders: night terrors/sleepwalking (N…