REM Sleep Behavior Disorder causes more than dream enactment—it’s a powerful clue to neurodegenerative disease risk.

In January, at age 63, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers say that dream enactment can indicate health issues, one of the most common and serious being the future onset of ...

That said, two other revelatory things. One is dream enactment behavior. Men in their fifties, if they act out their dreams, almost invariably develop Parkinson's later. The physical withering of ...

And so, you can have pretty exaggerated dream enactment behavior. It's diagnosed through a sleep study, which captures people moving around when they're not supposed to. Could you talk a little ...

Nearly a third of the older subjects exhibited dream enactment behaviors reminiscent of REM sleep behavior disorder, including chewing and limb extension. After administering a dual orexin ...

Descriptions of dream enactment by people with Parkinson’s are as old as recognition of the disease itself. In James Parkinson’s original description, “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy ...

The study, which spanned five years, included 40 service members who had experienced trauma, mainly from combat, and were experiencing dream enactment, which is when someone acts out dreams ...