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Nocturnal sleep spindle activity in blind subjects
Author(s) -
Hono Takahiro,
Hiroshige Yoshiharu,
Miyata Yo
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00674.x
Subject(s) - sleep (system call) , audiology , sleep spindle , nocturnal , psychology , sleep stages , medicine , electroencephalography , slow wave sleep , polysomnography , neuroscience , computer science , operating system
To determine spindle activity during sleep in congenitally blind subjects, electroencephalogram sleep recordings were done on two or three consecutive nights in five subjects aged in their 20s and 30s. The number per minute and the duration of sleep spindles, scored visually, were compared with the data of sighted persons of comparable ages. The results indicated that the total number of sleep spindles a night was ranged from 117 to 585, and the number per minute ranged 0.52 to 2.06 during stage 2. Both values were much less than the values of sighted persons.