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The typical sleep and dreaming patterns of adults with agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) have not been well-studied. A recent literature review produced only one study on the sleep EEG of acallosal infants (Kuks et al., 1987) and a short clinical report on the sleep of an acallosal father and his 11-year-old son (Lynn et al., 1980). The medical histories of the latter patients were both complicated by megalencephaly and their sleep patterns were found to be very different from each other. Moreover, there is also little known about the functioning of the corpus callosum during sleep. Berlucchi’s study (1965) of callosal activity in the sleep of cats remains unreplicated with either animal or human subjects. The study suggests that tonic activity in the corpus callosum is diminished during sleep, with some phasic bursting activity occurring in conjunction with rapid eye movements. Studies in our laboratory have also produced information about sleep, dreaming and EEG coherence in two patients before and after partial callosotomy (Montplaisir et al., 1990; Montplaisir et al., 1984), but overall there is very little literature on sleep in ACC available.
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Nielsen, T.A., Montplaisir, J., Marcotte, R., Lassonde, M. (1994). Sleep, Dreaming and EEG Coherence Patterns in Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum: Comparisons with Callosotomy Patients. In: Lassonde, M., Jeeves, M.A. (eds) Callosal Agenesis. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 42. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0487-6_13
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