Sleep Medicine
December 2011
Roberto Vetrugno, Pasquale Montagna
Sleep is a coordinated process involving more or less simultaneous changes in sensory, motor, autonomic, hormonal, and cerebral processes. On the other hand, none of the changes occurring with sleep are invariably coupled to sleep. EEG synchrony, heat loss, sleep-related hormone secretion, and even REM-related motoneuron paralysis may occur independent of the parent state. In REM sleep...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 2011
Maria Alessandria, Roberto Vetrugno, Pietro Cortelli et al.
While dreaming amputees often experience a normal body image and the phantom limb may not be present. However, dreaming experiences in amputees have mainly been collected by questionnaires. We analysed the dream reports of amputated patients with phantom limb collected after awakening from REM sleep during overnight videopolysomnography (VPSG). Six amputated patients underwent overnight VPSG...
Sleep Medicine
April 1, 2010
Fabio Pizza, K. K. Moghadam, Christian Franceschini et al.
This section is a new feature of Sleep Medicine allowing readers to submit unique sleep related cases with video segments as a way to enhance educational value in a manner unattainable through paper format. Please see our web site’s (http://ees.elsevier.com/ sleep/) Guide for Authors for instructions. We hope this section will be enriched by the contributions of our colleagues who wish to offer...
Sleep Medicine
December 2009
Roberto Vetrugno, Alessandra Vella, Mario Mascalchi et al.
Peduncular hallucinosis (PH) consists of formed and coloured visual images, which the patient knows are unreal; it is often associated with lesions of the pons, midbrain and diencephalon. A 72-year-old man had noted the sudden onset of visual hallucinations one year before, specifying the time and body position in a 4-week, 24-h diary. Thereafter, he underwent video-polysomnography (VPSG),...