title: Polygraphic analysis of sleep in dystonia musculorum deformans.
abstract: The functional state of non-specific brain systems was studied in 27 patients with torsion dystonia through a complex of techniques, which included clinical, experimental psychological and electrophysiological examination of night sleep. Changes of involved nature have been identified in the various elements of non-specific systems in different clinical forms of the disease in its early and advanced stages, which allows to consider torsion dystonia as a functional organic psychomotor syndrome in the origination of which a great role belongs to non-specific integrative systems of the brain.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D004422:Dystonia Musculorum Deformans / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004576:Electromyography; D004585:Electrooculography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007980:Levodopa / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D012890:Sleep / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D007980:Levodopa