title: Evidence from epileptic patients on the role of the right hemisphere in REM sleep.
abstract: Eight highly selected epileptic patients found to have lasting right temporal or temporooccipital rhythmic focal activity during night sleep were reassessed following remission which occurred between a few days and 7 years after the initial finding. In polysomnographic EEG recording, when the patients had extensive epileptic discharges in the right temporal and temporo-occipital regions, a prolonged period of REM sleep occurred (34.1 +/- 7.06% of total sleep time). Following remission, however, disproportion had returned to normal (20.4 +/- 1.75%). These results confirm that intensive focal epileptic activity in the temporal and temporooccipital regions of the right hemisphere during sleep facilitate REM sleep thus indicating a dominant role for the right hemisphere in REM sleep and dreaming.
authors: Department of Psychiatric Research, Clinical Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce, Zagreb, Croatia.
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authors: Hodoba
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D017029:Epilepsy, Complex Partial / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D017286:Polysomnography; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology