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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (cont.)

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Author:ABM Salah Uddin, MD, Consulting Staff, Department of Internal Medicine, Carraway Methodist Medical Center.

Editors:Erasmo A Passaro, MD, Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program/Clinical Neurophysiology Lab, Bayfront Medical Center; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Stephen Berman, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Neurology, Dartmouth Medical School; Chief, White River Junction VA Neurology Service, White River Junction VA Hospital.

Last Editorial Review: 1/13/2006

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