Sleep architecture in agenesis of the corpus callosum: laboratory assessment of four cases

SUMMARY  Whether the corpus callosum is essential for normal human sleep cannot be decided from current knowledge. We thus studied sleep architecture in four subjects with agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) and four control subjects matched for age, gender, and hand preference. All‐night EEG, EOG, and EMG activity were monitored in the laboratory for one adaptation night and one data acquisition night. Standard sleep variables were calculated for the second night.

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