Analogies and differences between reserpine PGO wave discharges and oculomotor phasic activity during paradoxical sleep in the cat

Abstract

In the present study the analogies and differences between phasic PGO activity of parodoxical sleep and the reserpine induced PGO waves were investigated. The oculomotor phasic activities in chronic cats were studied. It appeared that the intrinsic organisation of latencies and the appearance of phasic waves in the four structures studied were common to both experimental situations. However the sequential patterns of discharges were different in PS and under reserpine treatment.