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Sleep including but not limited to REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD):

More than 80 percent of patients suffering from this disorder develop a neurodegenerative pathology within 10 to 15 years of the onset of RBD. Most often, it is Parkinson’s disease. In fact, the brain’s failure to inhibit movements during dreams is a sign that the brain is already beginning to be damaged because [this phenomenon] results from the damage to the area of the brain stem that normally inhibits movement. It is therefore a very strong warning sign. – How Dreams Reveal Brain Disorders, by Marie-Neige Cordonnier, for Scientic American, interviewing Isabelle Arnulf, head of the sleep disorders clinic at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris

How Dreams Reveal Brain Disorders