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NeurologyLive® Brain Games: February 8, 2026

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  • A Sunday quiz format delivers three expert-written questions designed to assess neurology knowledge across clinical and historical domains.
  • Core subject areas repeatedly include dementia/Alzheimer disease, epilepsy, headache, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disease, sleep disorders, and cerebrovascular pathology.
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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is on diagnosing parasomnias!

Welcome to NeurologyLive® Brain Games! This weekly quiz series, which goes live every Sunday morning, will feature questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics, written by physicians, clinicians, and experts in the fields of neurological care and advocacy.

Test your mettle each week with 3 questions that cover a variety of aspects in the field of neurology, with a focus on dementia and Alzheimer disease, epilepsy and seizure disorders, headache and migraine, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disorders, sleep disorders, and stroke and cerebrovascular disease.

This week's questions includes the theme of the Diagnosing parasomnias.

Click here to check out the prior iterations of Brain Games.

Interested in submitting quiz questions? Contact our editor, Marco Meglio, via email: [email protected].

A 67-year-old man presents a 2-year history of vivid dream enactment, punching his spouse during sleep, and recalling the dreams on awakening. Polysomnography shows increased chin EMG tone during REM sleep. Which of the following features most strongly supports a diagnosis of REM sleep behavior disorder rather than NREM parasomnia?


A 29-year-old woman has recurrent nocturnal episodes with abrupt screaming, tonic posturing, and stereotyped limb movements. Events occur nightly and last 30–60 seconds. She has no recall of dreams. Which feature most suggests nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy rather than parasomnia?


Which parasomnia is most strongly associated with future development of a neurodegenerative synucleinopathy?


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