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How do you manage REM sleep disorder in geriatric patients with dementia associated with periods of catatonia?

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Psychiatry · McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Melatonin helps with REM sleep behavior disorder in most but not all cases - a trial-and-error process.

Antipsychotics may not help with REM sleep behavior disorder (in fact, promoting slow-wave sleep worsens REM sleep behavior disorder), but may help with catatonia if the etiology is psychosis (sta...

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