Occipital spikes and eye movement activity during paradoxical sleep in visually defective children.
In visually defective children occipital spikes were analysed in periods with and without eye movements during paradoxical sleep. A decrease was shown in correspondence with eye movements, mainly when the spike rate was low.
D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*