1972
Human Sleep After Leucotomy
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“…The increased wakefulness following limbic leucotomy gradually subsided, sometimes with the help of a hypnotic, or a small dose of tricyclic at night. Similar changes in sleep following leucotomy have previously been described by Hauri & Hawkins (1972), who studied a depressed, obsessive patient in the sleep laboratory before and after leucotomy. Following leucotomy, she too passed through a stage of increased wakefulness and this subsided after a few months.…”
Section: Ejfects On Sleepsupporting
confidence: 74%
“…The increased wakefulness following limbic leucotomy gradually subsided, sometimes with the help of a hypnotic, or a small dose of tricyclic at night. Similar changes in sleep following leucotomy have previously been described by Hauri & Hawkins (1972), who studied a depressed, obsessive patient in the sleep laboratory before and after leucotomy. Following leucotomy, she too passed through a stage of increased wakefulness and this subsided after a few months.…”
Section: Ejfects On Sleepsupporting
confidence: 74%
“…We do not know of other reports using frontal‐lobectomized animals to study S–W control. At least two studies on the effects of prefrontal lobotomy in non‐psychotic patients reported either a lasting increase in W time coupled with a decrease in delta sleep time (Hauri and Hawkins, 1972), or a decrease in REMS (Hosokawa et al. , 1968) in two lobotomized patients.…”
Section: 1 the Cerebral Cortexmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Vermutlich ist für die Art der EEG-Veränderungen der Umfang der Läsion ganz entscheidend verantwortlich. Bezüglich der Zunahme der asymmetrischen Schlafspindeln gibt es in der Literatur keine Einigkeit (6, 10,14). Meistens sind Spindeln nach einem zerebralen Insult oder einem Schädelhirntrauma in der pathologischen Hemisphäre eher vermindert.…”
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