Polysomnography in locked-in syndrome.
Sleep patterns were evaluated in a case of 'locked-in' syndrome. This patient had an ischemic infarction involving the ventral portion of the upper half of the pons bilaterally, with a posteromedial extension into the tegmentum. Reticular structures, notably the median raphe nuclei, supposed to play a major regulatory role in sleep, were most probably involved. Unexpectedly, repeated polysomnographic studies revealed sleep patterns with only minor abnormalities.
Oksenberg
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Sleep Disorders Unit, Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center, Raanana, Israel.
Soroker
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Solzi
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Reider-Groswasser
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D004569:Electroencephalography; D004576:Electromyography; D004585:Electrooculography; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011903:Raphe Nuclei / Q000503:physiopathology; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed