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A neurophysiological study was made of the effects of partial and complete paradoxial sleep deprivation by substituting episodes of active wakefulness for spells of paradoxical sleep (PS) of the same duration in the sleep-wake cycle. Neither accumulated need for paradoxical sleep (culminating in increased onset of PS during deprivation), PS rebound during the post-deprivation period, nor dissociation of the stages of paradoxical sleep resulting in their intervening individually at unaccustomed points in the sleep-wake cycle were observed during our experimental procedure. The phenomenon of self-deprivation, increased heart rate, eye movements, and pontogeniculooccipital (PGO) action potentials also failed to occur during the post-deprivation period. It is postulated that PS requirement and the need for periods of wakefulness stem from the same neurochemical alterations.
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I. S. Beritashvili Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, Tbilisi. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 20–28, January–February, 1988.
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Oniani, T.N., Lortkipanidze, N.D., Maisuradze, L.M. et al. Neurophysiological analysis of the effects of partial paradoxical sleep deprivation. Neurophysiology 20, 15–21 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198420
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