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Neuroscience: While you were sleeping

Alison Abbott1

  1. Alison Abbott is Nature's senior European correspondent.

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The flailing limbs of someone acting out their dreams in bed may not seem the obvious place to seek a cure for Parkinson's disease. But, as Alison Abbott finds out, this sleep disorder is shedding fresh light on the development of neurodegenerative disorders.

Many couples suffer in silence, for fear that the police may be called. But those who make it to the sleep clinic have some bizarre tales to tell.

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