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Penile erections in a patient with nearly total absence of REM: a follow-up study
1Sleep Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Sleep
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
A man was previously shown to suffer from a highly localized pontine lesion associated with an almost total absence of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Sleep recordings conducted 4 years later confirmed the drastic reduction of REM sleep, but demonstrated intact penile erection cycles.

