Neurodegenerative processes with movement
disorders is predominant features show a high
incidence of sleep alterations at some point in their
evolution. The degeneration of structures responsible
for maintaining the sleep-wakefulness cycles and the
architecture of sleep could be at their root. Other
factors like the drugs employed in the treatment of
motor problems, the limitations to movement, etc.,
aggravate the problem. Although, at present, there is
no medical therapy able to restore the defects
derived from the degeneration of the key structures of
sleep, an individual analysis of the coadyuvant factors
in each patient could help to improve these problems.
In this article we describe the main sleep disorders in
Parkinson’s disease and other degenerative diseases
such as multi-system atrophies or progressive
supranuclear paralysis
