Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 393-400 (April 2014) The importance of polysomnography in the evaluation of prolonged disorders of consciousness: sleep recordings more adequately correlate than stimulus-related evoked potentials with patients’ clinical status Stefano de Biase, Gian Luigi Gigli, Simone Lorenzut, Claudio Bianconi, Patrizia Sfreddo, Gianluca Rossato, Federica Basaldella, Matteo Fuccaro, Antonio Corica, Davide Tonon, Fabio Barbone, Mariarosaria Valente Sleep Medicine Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 393-400 (April 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2013.09.026 Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 1 Sleep spindles in a vegetative state patient. Sleep Medicine 2014 15, 393-400DOI: (10.1016/j.sleep.2013.09.026) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 2 Rapid eye movement sleep in two vegetative state patients. Sleep Medicine 2014 15, 393-400DOI: (10.1016/j.sleep.2013.09.026) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 3 Sleep hypnogram in two vegetative state (VS) patients showing rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (patient 1 and 4), in a VS patient not showing REM or non-REM sleep alternation (patient 8), and in a minimally conscious state patient (patient 28). Sleep Medicine 2014 15, 393-400DOI: (10.1016/j.sleep.2013.09.026) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Terms and Conditions