An Observational Note on Eye Movement Patterns During Rem and Non Rem Sleep in Subjects With Congenital Nystagmus

Arkin, Arthur M.; Weitzman, Elliot D.; Hastey, John M.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1966.tb02681.x

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“…b) The subjective estimation of the length of the dream correlates with the length of the REM period. (6). Both of these findings militate against a scanning hypothesis necessary for a psychic causation.…”

Section: Mental Activity During Sleepmentioning

confidence: 84%

Sleep and Psychiatric Disorder

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1968

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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A review of some of the important recent findings on sleep and its disorders has been presented and they provide some insight into the mysterious process of sleep. Sleep is shown to be a very complex process which will require not only extension of the current researches but a revised approach into the areas covered by previous studies. Sleep is a unique state quite different from other phenomena of loss or change of consciousness. It is distinguished from hypnosis which may involve more the specific arousal system of the thalamus. Hypnotic blindness for example does not involve sleep changes but rather a reversal of the electrical activity of the visual cortex (38). Although there appears to be a system which alerts the sleeping organism to meaningful stimuli it seems that there is little evidence of significant new learning during sleep (12, 120, 153). Rather sleep involves the focusing of the activity of the central nervous system on its internal processes. Sleep produces a state of relative bodily inactivity but the central nervous system remains actively engaged in a restorative process not yet understood. The discovery of the REM state has shown the complexity of sleep. No study of the effect of physical or chemical stimuli on the nervous system during sleep will be adequate without the examination of effects and responses in the different phases of sleep. The lack of success of continuous sleep therapy may be in part due to suppression of REM sleep by the sedatives used (23). It should be stated, however, that clinical studies are also needed to supplement the more sophisticated and expensive scientific procedures. There are still many areas of controversy on the phenomenology of sleep disorder which need investigation.

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Section: Mental Activity During Sleepmentioning

confidence: 84%

Sleep and Psychiatric Disorder

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1968

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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“…In a study of endogenously induced nystagmus during sleep, Arkin, Weitzman, and Hastey (1966) reported that all night recordings of five subjects with congenital nystagmus manifesting clear-cut nystagmus during wakefulness nevertheless revealed no evidence of a nystagmic response during any of the sleep stages. In a subsequent replication of that study Arkin, Lutzky, and Toth (1972) confirmed their previous results.…”

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Absence of nystagmus during REM sleep in a patient with waking nystagmus and oscillopsia

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et al. 1973

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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SUMMARY Polygraphic recording is presented of the sleep pattern in a young male who developed nystagmus and oscillopsia associated with a remittent CNS demyelinating disease. The vestibular nystagmus observed during wakefulness disappeared during all stages of sleep, including rapid eye movement sleep (REM). Since vestibular nystagmus experimentally induced in wakefulness is also absent during all phases of sleep, these findings suggest that during sleep similar suppressive mechanisms are operative.

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