Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder

Foreword.- Part I. Introduction.- RBD: Historical Perspective.- The Human Dimension of RBD.- The Foundation of the International RBD Study Group.- Part II. RBD: Clinical Aspects.- Clinical Spectrum.- Idiopathic (cryptogenic) RBD.- Idiopathic RBD.- Secondary RBD.- RBD Associated With Parkinson's Disease and Multiple System Atrophy.- RBD and Dementia with Lewy Bodies.- RBD and Non-Synuclein Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Critical Appraisal.- RBD Associated With CNS Autoimmune Diseases and Paraneoplastic Disorders.- Lesional RBD.- RBD, Antidepressant Medications and Psychiatric Disorders.- RBD in Narcolepsy-Cataplexy.- Acute RBD.- Physiological Substrates of RBD Subtypes.- RBD: Age and Gender Implications.- RBD in Childhood and Adolescence.- RBD in Adults Under 50 Years Old.- RBD: Gender implications.- Dreams and RBD.- RBD: A Window Into the Dreaming Process.- Diagnosis.- Diagnosis of RBD.- Instruments for Screening, Diagnosis and Assessment of RBD Severity and Monitoring Treatment Outcome.- PSG findings in RBD.- Video Analysis of Behaviors and Movements.- Clinical Vignettes.- Illustrative, Unusual, and Challenging RBD cases.- Therapy.- Management of a Patient with RBD.- Melatonin therapy of RBD.- Clonazepam and Other Therapies of RBD.- Differential Diagnosis and Related Disorders.- RBD Mimics.- Parasomnia Overlap Disorder: RBD and NREM Parasomnias.- Status Dissociatus and Its Relation to RBD.- Clinical Research in RBD.- Imaging.- Activation of the Visual and Motor Systems During REM sleep and Implications for RBD.- Brain Imaging of RBD.- Neurophysiology.- The Electromyographic Diagnosis of REM Sleep Without Atonia and RBD.- Autonomic Function.- RBD and the Autonomic Nervous System.- Cardiac Scintigraphy in RBD.- Neuropsychological Aspects.- Cognition in RBD.- Impulse Control Disorders and Other Neuropsychiatric Features in RBD.- Contemporary Clinical Issues.- Biomarkers of Neurodegenerative Disease in Idiopathic RBD.- RBD, Gastric Peptides, and Gastric Motility.-

Carlos H. Schenck received his B.A. degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1972, and his M.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976. He completed a Psychiatry Residency at the University of Minnesota in 1980, where he is currently a Professor and senior staff psychiatrist at the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis. Since 1982 he has been on staff at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center located at HCMC. In 1985-7 Dr. Schenck and colleagues reported on a new category of parasomnia that they named RBD (REM sleep behavior disorder). In 1996 Dr. Schenck and colleagues first reported that RBD commonly heralds future parkinsonism, thus initiating a major international research effort in this area. Dr. Schenck and colleagues also identified and named Sleep Related Eating Disorder in 1991; formulated the first classification of Sexsomnia (abnormal sexual behaviors accompanying sleep) in 2007; identified Sleep-Related Dissociative Disorders in 1989; identified Status Dissociatus (mixed states of REM sleep, Non-REM sleep and wake) in 1991; identified Epic Dream Disorder in 1995; and identifed and named Parasomnia Overlap Disorder (RBD linked with Sleepwalking and Night Terrors as Non-REM sleep parasomnias) in 1997. Dr. Schenck was a founding member (along with Mark W. Mahowald, M.D., and Michel Cramer Bornemann, M.D.) of Sleep Forensics Associates, which has been an active educational and forensics resource for medical-legal cases involving the Parasomnia Defense (in particular, Sexsomnia and Sleepwalking). They have published on new sleep medicine forensic categories, including Parasomnia Pseudo-Suicide in 2003.

Dr. Schenck and his colleague Mark W. Mahowald, M.D. received the "William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award" from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in 2007 for their research on the Parasomnias; and they received the Sleep Research Society "Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award" in 2010,