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Melissa B Jones1, Juliann Tea1, Matthew Meyers1

  • 1Mental Health Care Line (Jones, Jorge), Research Care Line (Jones, Villalon), and Medical Care Line (Agrawal), Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Houston; Beth K. and Stuart C. Yudofsky Division of Neuropsychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jones, Villalon, Jorge), and Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine (Agrawal), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (Tea); Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, and Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Meyers); Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston (Li).

The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|April 23, 2024
PubMed
Summary

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are linked to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) in veterans. PTSD severity and number of TBIs independently predicted RBD symptoms in a screening study.

Keywords:
ParasomniasPosttraumatic Stress DisorderREM Sleep Behavior DisorderRapid Eye Movement SleepTraumatic Brain InjuryVeterans

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