Influence of diffuse brain stimulation (DBS) on human sleep. I. Sleep pattern changes.
A 20 min period of diffuse brain stimulation (DBS), administered just before sleep onset in 16 human subjects, appeared to alter significantly the first sleep cycle of the succeeding sleep. The length of the first sleep cycle and the amount of REM sleep increased, whereas a shift from deep to more superficial NREM sleep occurred. This effect of DBS on sleep is discussed with respect to data from the literature on the effect of narcotic DBS and on that of local brain stimulation in animals.
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012894:Sleep Stages; D012895:Sleep, REM