Category: Mental health
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Parkinson’s Disease and Acting Out Your Dreams
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder is a sleep disorder in which you physically act out vivid, often unpleasant dreams with vocal sounds and sudden, often violent arm and leg movements during REM sleep — sometimes called dream-enacting behavior. This sleep condition is a lesser-known symptom of Parkinson’s that,…
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Parkinson’s and Mental Health
From the balance between “defying” and “embracing” the condition, to what they value most in life – three people tell us about the relationship between Parkinson’s disease and their sense of self. Sharing his perspective on the link between Parkinson’s and identity, US-based motivational speaker John Baumann explained how the…