Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology (수면정신생리)
- Volume 15 Issue 1
- /
- Pages.33-38
- /
- 2008
- /
- 1225-7354(pISSN)
- /
- 2713-8631(eISSN)
Spectral Analysis of REM Sleep EEG in Narcolepsy and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
기면병과 렘수면행동장애에서의 렘수면 뇌파 스펙트럼 분석
- Kim, Hyung-Il (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
- Jeong, Do-Un (Center for Sleep and Chronobiology, Seoul National University Hospital and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine) ;
- Park, Kwang-Suk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
- Published : 2008.06.30
Abstract
Introduction: It has been proposed that narcolepsy and REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) have overlapped symptom profile and pathophysiology. This study was aimed at measuring and comparing changes in EEG frequency band of REM sleep in narcolepsy and RBD, applying EEG spectral analysis method. Methods: Nine patients diagnosed as narcolepsy and the same number of RBD patients were studied. Spectral analysis of the REM sleep EEG was performed in each patient on 9 epochs selected evenly from the first, second, and third REM periods. Then, we compared frequency band percentages of REM sleep EEG in narcolepsy and RBD. Results: Narcolepsy patients had significantly higher delta frequency ratio than RBD ones (p=0.00). In alpha and beta2 frequency bands, RBD patients showed higher percentage than narcolepsy ones. Slow wave sleep was more prevalent in narcolepsy patients. But, no difference of REM sleep percentage was found between the two groups (p=0.93). Conclusion: Higher delta frequency ratio in REM sleep of narcolepsy patients than RBD ones reflects that sleep-promoting mechanism is more dominant in narcolepsy than in RBD.
목 적 : 기면병과 렘수면 행동장애(RBD)에서 모두 신경 퇴행적 과정이 존재할 가능성과 함께 두 질환의 증상 사이에 공통점이 있다는 제안이 많이 있었다. 이 연구는 두 렘수면 관련 질환에서 스펙트럼 분석방법을 적용하여 렘수면 뇌파의 미세 차이에 관해 살펴 보고자 하였다. 방 법 : 기면병과 RBD 각 군에서 9명씩 성비를 맞추어 분석 대상자를 선정하였다. 각각의 분석대상자의 세 개의 렘수면 주기에서 각각 연속된 세 수면단위를 골라 한 사람당 9개의 수면단위에 대해 스펙트럼 분석을 실시하였다. 결 과 : 델타파 영역에서는 그 비율이 기면병군에서 RBD군보다 유의하게 높았다(p<0.01). 알파파(p=0.02)와 베타 2영역(