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Comparison of EMG, Video, and Actigraphy Signals for Detecting Motor Activity in REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

2026-02-19 neurology Title + abstract only
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Background/ObjectivesElectromyography (EMG), video-polysomnography (vPSG), and wrist actigraphy are each used to develop diagnostic algorithms for Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD). However, the extent to which they capture overlapping versus distinct motor phenomena remains unknown. We evaluated the respective contributions of actigraphy, EMG and vPSG to the measurement of REM-sleep motor activity. MethodsSeventeen adults with RBD (Mount Sinai n = 9; Stanford n = 8) and eight co...

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