[Spindle activity during sleep in subjects with a deficit in pallesthetic sensibility]

Sleep spindle activity was studied on four subjects affected by pallesthesic deficit due to injury the posterior funiculi of the cord. The spindle activity was studied as density (number of spindles min.), duration and percent of sleep time utilized in spindle activity. The polygraph sleep records included EOG, EMG and 6 monopolar EEG recordings, 3 for each side, on the frontal, parietal and occipital regions. The records showed a spindle activity which was similar in different subjects and that was significantly higher than the physiological values. In fact, the spindle density was about 250%, the duration was about 130% and the spindle percent was about 280%, with respect to the physiological values assumed to be 100%.