Polysomnographic study of sleeplessness and oneiricisms in the alcohol withdrawal syndrome |
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Authors: | Plazzi Giuseppe Montagna Pasquale Meletti Stefano Lugaresi Elio |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Clinical Neurology, University of Bologna, via Ugo Foscolo 7, 40123 Bologna, Italy. plazzi@neuro.unibo.it |
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Abstract: | We describe a polysomnographic observation of the acute phase of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome, characterized by an alteration of the sleep-wake cycle and by the absence of non-rapid eye movement sleep. An atypical transitional state between rapid eye movement sleep and wake with hallucinations and enacting-dream behaviors represented the sole sleep pattern. Analogies of alcohol withdrawal syndrome with fatal familial insomnia and Morvan's fibrillary chorea suggest a common pathophysiological mechanism in these conditions. |
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