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T Hono1, Y Hiroshige, Y Miyata
1Department of Clinical Psychology, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan. honobono@mw.kawasaki-m.ac.jp
Abstract:
To determine spindle activity during sleep in congenitally blind subjects, electroencephalogram sleep recordings were done on two or three consecutive nights in five subjects aged in their 20s and 30s. The number per minute and the duration of sleep spindles, scored visually, were compared with the data of sighted persons of comparable ages. The results indicated that the total number of sleep spindles a night was ranged from 117 to 585, and the number per minute ranged 0.52 to 2.06 during stage 2. Both values were much less than the values of sighted persons.
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