The structure of night sleep and cardiac rhythm in patients suffering for many years from hypo- and akinesia.
The polygram of night sleep was studied in 3 patients, who due to a lesion to the CNS and peripheral nervous system were in a state of long-term akinesia and artificial lung ventilation. The cyclic organization of sleep and its transition from stage to stage, as a whole corresponded with those in healthy subjects. However, there was a general tendency in all patients to a reduction of sleep spindles. There was also a tendency to the stability of heart rate during night sleep. The relationship between delta-sleep and sleep spindles and motor activity is discussed.
D000328:Adult; D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000503:physiopathology; D010243:Paralysis / Q000503:physiopathology; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology