Methods and systems for diagnosing or assessing rapid eye movement sleep
behavior disorder (RBD). Muscle tone or activity variance during rapid
eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep intervals of a
polysomnogram are compared. A threshold based on the NREM data is used to
identify a subject-specific threshold for abnormality in the REM
variance. A metric that includes the percentage of REM variance exceeding
the threshold relates to RBD.