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Topic: REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: What Lies Beneath
Format: Interactive and Discussion
Cost: FREE
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Time: 8:15PM Eastern Time
Presenter: Alon Y. Avidan, MD, MPH, FAAN, FAASM
Closed captioning will be available.
The Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 Continuing Sleep Technology Education credits. Individuals should claim only those credits that he/she actually earned in the educational activity.
Learning Objectives:
- Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is parasomnia characterized by loss of muscle atonia during REM, which contributes to dream enactment. Patients with RBD display patterns of unusual, complex, and even violent motor activities with a potential for harm to the patients or their bedpartners.
- RBD is a multifaceted condition characterized by diverse underlying disorders and significant implications for clinical management and prognosis. A presentation in older age has significant associations with synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease, Lewy body dementia, and multiple system atrophy and may precede clinical manifestations by decades. Recent data confirm that RBD may serve as the earliest and most reliable indicator of alpha synuclein-neurodegeneration.
- The diagnosis of RBD should be confirmed by polysomnography utilizing multiple-limb electromyography and synchronized digital video monitoring, and the elevation of muscle tone during REM sleep, along with dream enactment behavior. The differential diagnosis includes untreated sleep apnea, sleepwalking, nocturnal seizures, and periodic limb movement disorder.
- Management focuses on maximizing safety, use of melatonin/clonazepam and discussion of prognostic implications with patients.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Avidan is Professor of Neurology at UCLA where he directs the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center and serves as Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He completed his Medical School Training at the George Washington University, Neurology Residency at Georgetown University, and Fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He was recently awarded and served as Visiting Professor of Neurology Education in the Department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, and was selected to receive the 2014 American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Excellence in Education Award for career contributions to education in sleep medicine. He has published over 100 manuscripts on sleep disorders and coauthored four books: “Handbook of Sleep Medicine,” “Geriatric Sleep Medicine,” “Review of Sleep Medicine” and “Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine.” He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Board of Sleep Medicine, and a Diplomate in the Specialty of Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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