Disorganized relations of tonic and phasic events of REM sleep in a case of brain-stem tumour.
This study concerns a case of infliltrating tumour of the pons in which a night sleep recording was performed. Selective disorganization of REM sleep was observed, with lack of muscular atonia and disturbances of tonic-phasic relationships. These data are discussed with respect to the results of local destructions performed experimentally in animals.
D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D009129:Muscle Tonus; D011149:Pons / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012895:Sleep, REM