Scary dreams portend Parkinson's disease

Bad dreams may be harbingers of the onset of Parkinson's disease. So neurologists should turn the dream into a traditional medical history for the correct statement diagnosis.

nightmares

The Englishman Bob can not Stobbart remember dreaming if he ever bad dreams in childhood and youth. Yet after his 50th birthday Bob were visiting one unpleasant dream after another. Plot nightmares It has always been the same - Bob fought with some being in black hood, and then the man screamed and woke up with fear.

Parkinson's disease

Bob himself calls himself a man fearless, and it's really hard to scare anything. But dreams were so dreadful that he even peed in the bed. Finally, it wife Christine tired of watching the suffering of her husband, and she sent him to sleep in the other room. Unfortunately, the father of four children did not even know that nightmares   in case it is earlier symptoms onset Parkinson's disease - Neurodegenerative disorder, which affects about 250 thousand residents of Russia about 120 thousand citizens of the UK.

Parkinson's disease   It causes the loss of nerve cells in the brain, It called the substantia nigra. These nerve cells produce a chemical a chemical called dopamine, which controls movement, and plays an important role in feelings of reward and develop relationships. Unless classic symptoms of Parkinson's disease include tremor of the extremities, the at an early stage in patients having so-called rapid breakdown eye movements during sleep (RBD).

Most people paralyzed, when they have dreams. So we do not move in bed, though manufacture a variety of movement in dreams. However, people with RBD behave differently. Studies show that 15% to 85% of patients with Parkinson's disease also faced with RBD. So, if you too often dream terrible dreams, perhaps it's time to visit a neurologist. (READ MORE)

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