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Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2000;284:2173-2175.

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Las Vegas—Many medical illnesses disrupt sleep and impair alertness. Moreover, sleep disorders may coexist with medical disorders in people of all ages. Improving sleep problems in the medically ill, sleep specialists say, may enhance patients' overall health and quality of life.

Researchers explored sleep-related symptoms and new approaches to treatment for Parkinson disease (PD), Alzheimer disease (AD), multiple sclerosis (MS), gastrointestinal tract disorders, renal disease, and other illnesses at the annual joint meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society here during the summer.

PARKINSON DISEASE

People with PD who are receiving dopaminergic therapy often report visual hallucinations while awake and unusually vivid dreams during sleep. Isabelle Arnulf, MD, and colleagues at the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris assessed hallucinations in 10 nondemented people with long-standing levodopa-responsive PD. Most of them asserted that their lives were in danger, believed that they were followed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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