[Electroencephalographic characteristics of sleep in subjects with paleo and neocerebellar lesions].
The research was performed in order to study: 1) paleo and neocerebellar contributions in the sleep organization and 2) the electrical sleep activities at different time intervals during the functional compensation which follows the cerebellar lesion. Polygraphic sleep records (EEG, EMG, EOG) were performed on four subjects with surgical lesions more than 6 months old in cerebellar cortex (two subjects in paleo and two in neocerebellum). Another subject was studied before a surgical paleocerebellar lesion and at different time intervals after that (8th, 30th, 60th, and 90th day). Paleo and neocerebellar lesions showed different sleep abnormalities. The former induced both quantitative and qualitative alterations in the cyclic sleep organization, the latter did not show significant alterations in this organization but rather in transition between sleeping and waking and in sleep maintenance. The acute paleocerebellar lesion showed at the 8th and 30th day a strong reduction of the synchronized sleep (SS) and an increase of the desynchronized one (DS). In the successive records, 30th and 90th day, the SS/DS ratio increased to the values observed in the chronic paleocerebellar lesioned subjects.
D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D013997:Time Factors
Caratteristiche elettroencefalografiche del sonno in soggetti con lesione paleo e neocerebellare.