Severe hypersomnia after unilateral infarction in the pulvinar nucleus– a case report

BACKGROUND: Although a central role of the thalamus for sleep regulation is undisputed, the exact localization of the crucial structures within the thalamus remains controversial. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a 35 year old woman with no prior comorbidities who developed severe and persistent hy...

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Autores principales: Hansen, Peter Nørregaard, Krøigård, Thomas, Nguyen, Nina, Frandsen, Rune Vestergaard, Jennum, Poul Jørgen, Beier, Christoph P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33287737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-020-02018-2
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author Hansen, Peter Nørregaard
Krøigård, Thomas
Nguyen, Nina
Frandsen, Rune Vestergaard
Jennum, Poul Jørgen
Beier, Christoph P.
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description BACKGROUND: Although a central role of the thalamus for sleep regulation is undisputed, the exact localization of the crucial structures within the thalamus remains controversial. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a 35 year old woman with no prior comorbidities who developed severe and persistent hypersomnia with long sleep time after a small right-sided MRI-verified thalamic stroke affecting the dorsal part of the pulvinar and the dorsolateral boarders of the dorsomedial nuclei. CONCLUSION: The observed symptoms suggest a crucial role of posterior thalamus but not the midline parts of the thalamus in sleep-wake control. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12883-020-02018-2.
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spelling pubmed-77205842020-12-07 Severe hypersomnia after unilateral infarction in the pulvinar nucleus– a case report Hansen, Peter Nørregaard Krøigård, Thomas Nguyen, Nina Frandsen, Rune Vestergaard Jennum, Poul Jørgen Beier, Christoph P. BMC Neurol Case Report BACKGROUND: Although a central role of the thalamus for sleep regulation is undisputed, the exact localization of the crucial structures within the thalamus remains controversial. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a 35 year old woman with no prior comorbidities who developed severe and persistent hypersomnia with long sleep time after a small right-sided MRI-verified thalamic stroke affecting the dorsal part of the pulvinar and the dorsolateral boarders of the dorsomedial nuclei. CONCLUSION: The observed symptoms suggest a crucial role of posterior thalamus but not the midline parts of the thalamus in sleep-wake control. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12883-020-02018-2. BioMed Central 2020-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7720584/ /pubmed/33287737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-020-02018-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Hansen, Peter Nørregaard
Krøigård, Thomas
Nguyen, Nina
Frandsen, Rune Vestergaard
Jennum, Poul Jørgen
Beier, Christoph P.
Severe hypersomnia after unilateral infarction in the pulvinar nucleus– a case report
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title_short Severe hypersomnia after unilateral infarction in the pulvinar nucleus– a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33287737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-020-02018-2
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