Abstract
Functional imaging of human sleep has been performed with nuclear medicine methods, but MRI has been difficult to implement, in part because of the noise associated with echo-planar imaging as well as the difficulty in reading physiologic signals in the MRI environment. We describe a silent MR sequence that can record brain activation over many hours with simultaneous acquisition of an EEG. This shows activation of occipital cortex and deactivation of frontal cortex during REM sleep, in agreement with previous studies using other techniques.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2193-2195 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Neurology |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 10 1999 |
Keywords
- Functional imaging
- MRI
- REM sleep
- Sleep
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology