SPECT during sleepwalking.
Sleepwalking is a dissociation between body sleep and mind sleep. We report single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in a man with a history of sleepwalking. Our findings suggest that this dissociation arises from activation of thalamocingulate pathways and persisting deactivation of other thalamocortical arousal systems.
Bassetti
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C
Vella
S
S
Donati
F
F
Wielepp
P
P
Weder
B
B
D000293:Adolescent; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017286:Polysomnography; D011859:Radiography; D013009:Somnambulism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon