Chronic vagus nerve stimulation improves alertness and reduces rapid eye movement sleep in patients affected by refractory epilepsy

Sleep

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 607-611

  Rizzo, Pierpaolo ^a   Beelke, Manolo ^a   De Carli, Fabrizio ^b   Canovaro, Paola ^a   Nobili, Lino ^a   Robert, Alice ^a   Tanganelli, Paolo ^c   Regesta, Giovanni ^d   Ferrillo, Franco ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Department of Neurology   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e Cattedra di Neurofisiopatologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alertness; Epilepsy; Mood disorders; REM sleep; Sleep; Slow wave activity; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NERVE STIMULATION; NIGHT SLEEP; NOCTURNAL SEIZURE; NONREM SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VAGUS NERVE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AROUSAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP STAGE; STATISTICS; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; VAGUS NERVE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0642280067     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/26.5.607     Document Type: Article

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