Cerebral blood flow in normal and abnormal sleep and dreaming

Journal Article · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987 · Brain Cognit.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-2626(87)90127-8· OSTI ID:6021883

Meyer, J S; Ishikawa, Y; Hata, T; Karacan, I

Measurements of regional or local cerebral blood flow (CBF) by the xenon-133 inhalation method and stable xenon computerized tomography CBF (CTCBF) method were made during relaxed wakefulness and different stages of REM and non-REM sleep in normal age-matched volunteers, narcoleptics, and sleep apneics. In the awake state, CBF values were reduced in both narcoleptics and sleep apneics in the brainstem and cerebellar regions. During sleep onset, whether REM or stage I-II, CBF values were paradoxically increased in narcoleptics but decreased severely in sleep apneics, while in normal volunteers they became diffusely but more moderately decreased. In REM sleep and dreaming CBF values greatly increased, particularly in right temporo-parietal regions in subjects experiencing both visual and auditory dreaming.

• Research Organization: VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
• OSTI ID: 6021883
• Journal Information: Brain Cognit.; (United States), Vol. 6:3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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