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ATTEMPTS TO INDUCE THE RAPID EYE MOVEMENT STAGE OF SLEEP IN MACACA MULATTA BY BRAIN STEM STIMULATION
Author(s) -
Kripke Daniel F.,
Weitzman Elliot D.,
Pollak CharleS
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1965.tb03257.x
Subject(s) - psychology , eye movement , sleep (system call) , stimulation , rapid eye movement sleep , electroencephalography , neuroscience , neurophysiology , audiology , electrooculography , medicine , computer science , operating system
Dural, orbital, and depth electrodes were chronically implanted in five monkeys, and 473 brain stem stimulations were given during 80 hr of EEG recording on 14 nights of sleep. Although occasional rapid eye movement sleep periods occurred soon after stimulations, no parameters or loci of stimulation consistently provoked REMPs, occurred. Statistical analyses did not demonstrate any precipitation of REMPs, and it is probable that only spontaneous REMPs occurred. When compared with previous reports, these findings emphasize the importance of statistical controls in neurophysiological studies of REMP origin.