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IT has been reported that post-rotatory nystagmus is replaced by slow ocular movements during behavioural sleep in children1. Sleeping infants are also said to show no nystagmus2. In cats a decrease in wakefulness as revealed by the electroencephalogram has been recently shown to be paralleled by a reduction of rotatory nystagmus3,4. We have investigated the modifications induced by the sleep–wakefulness cycle in “spontaneous” nystagmus after unilateral labyrinthectomy2.
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BALDISSERA, F., BROGGI, G. & MANCIA, M. Nystagmus induced by Unilateral Labyrinthectomy affected by Sleep–Wakefulness Cycle. Nature 215, 62–63 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215062a0
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