[Newspoetry] REM behavior disorder

[Editor-Within-Chief]

 From the BBC's description of REM guitarist Peter Buck's acquittal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1913000/1913066.stm

"Neil Stanley, director of the Sleep Research Unit at Surrey University, 
said it was possible that alcohol, drugs and other stimuli could disrupt 
the mental processes that ensure that the body does not endanger itself 
while asleep.

When these controls are disturbed during a phase of deep sleep this can 
result in sleepwalking, which is usually benign and only ever results in 
injury to the person doing the sleepwalking.

However, if the controls are disturbed during dream sleep this can result 
in a condition called REM behaviour disorder."

Researchers are still looking for the causes of several related disorders, 
including U2 behavior disorder and INXS behavior disorder.  XTC disorder 
has already been linked to a powerful interaction effect between large 
doses of Beatles, Captain Beefheart, and New York Dolls records.


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Joe Futrelle
editor-within-chief
http://www.newspoetry.com/