REM Behavior Disorder

[livingwith]

I have been married for 15 years and within the first month of marraige, realized we needed to buy a king size bed. My husbands constant snoring, twitching, moving, and jerking progressed into bigger scarrier movements. It is comforting to finally read on sleepchannel that I was not the only person dealing with these issues, and there is a name for the problem, (RBD) REM Behavior Disorder. Maybe now we can see about getting some help, and then I will get a better nights sleep.
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[concernedmom04]

My son had a smiliar incident (the first one ever) of punching someone during sleep. He has always had, what we thought were night terrors, but recently an episode turned violent and devasted him. He feels like he is going crazy and was distraught knowing he hurt his long time girlfriend. Besides the bed pillow, what other treatments have worked and have you learned anything about what causes this very scary condition?

[grosspeed]

A lack of dopamine to the spine during rem sleep (your most active stage of sleep) is what causes it.

[concernedmom04]

How do you overcome this "lack of dopamine"? What has worked in your situation?
Thanks for your reply.