SPECT during sleepwalking

Authors
Bassetti, C Vella, S Donati, F Wielepp, P Weder, B
Citation
C. Bassetti et al., SPECT during sleepwalking, LANCET, 356(9228), 2000, pp. 484-485
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
LANCET
ISSN journal
01406736 → ACNP
Volume
356
Issue
9228
Year of publication
2000
Pages
484 - 485
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-6736(20000805)356:9228<484:SDS>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Sleepwalking is a dissociation between body sleep and mind sleep. We report single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in a man with a history of sleepwalking. Our findings suggest that this dissociation arises from a ctivation of thalamocingulate pathways and persisting deactivation of other thalamocortical arousal systems.