A disorder of rapid eye movement sleep in a cat.
A young female cat with no neurologic abnormality during wakefulness was discovered to have violent motor activity during rapid eye movement sleep. Various characteristics of the disorder, which differentiated these episodes from epileptic seizures, suggested that the movements resulted from an exaggeration of phasic excitation during rapid eye movement sleep.
D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002415:Cats; D004576:Electromyography / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D010634:Phenobarbital / Q000494:pharmacology; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000187:drug effects
D010634:Phenobarbital