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Periodic limb movements of sleep in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder
Author(s) -
Brown Terry M.,
Boudewyns Patrick A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.2490090111
Subject(s) - posttraumatic stress , sleep (system call) , psychology , sleep disorder , psychiatry , anxiety disorder , physical medicine and rehabilitation , clinical psychology , medicine , insomnia , anxiety , computer science , operating system
Twenty‐five veterans suffering from combat‐related posttraumatic stress disorder were studied for 1–4 nights with all‐night polysomnography. All subjects had sleep complaints. Analysis reveals that nineteen (76%) of the patients were found to have clinically significant periodic limb movements of sleep (PLMs) by the second night of study. PLMs are associated with sleep complaints in normals. For this reason the common assumption that sleep complaints in posttraumatic stress disorder are related only to the psychiatric disorder itself are challenged.