Eye movement dysfunction has been found in large numbers of schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives and can be studied without the interference of deficits in attention, motivation, clinical status and medication effects with relatively easy method. Eye movement dysfunction has been proposed as a useful way of expanding the schizophrenia phenotype in genetic studies. I review the literature on eye movement dysfunction with respect to syndrome and familial specificity and the quantitative assessment of eye tracking. I hope that the etiology and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia can be clarified through this eye movement study.

REM 수면이 학습 및 기억 과정에 관련이 있다는 증거는 많으나 아직도 향후 밝혀져야 할 부분이 많다. 학습후에는 REM 수면이 유의하게 증가한다는 주장과 증가하지 않는다는 연구결과가 있어 의견의 일치를 보이지 않고 있다. 그러나 연구 결과들을 종합하면 내용이 쉽고 단순한 학습후에는 REM 수면의 증가가 없으나 내용이 복잡하고 생소하며 정서적으로 중요한 학습후에는 유의한 REM 수면의 증가를 보인다는 점에서는 일치하고 있다. 이 결과는 Rotenberg(6)의 학습에 대한 두가지의 서로 상반된 행동양식, 즉 탐색활동과 탐색의 포기라는 관점에서의 해석과 일치한다. 아무튼 REM 수면은 장기 기억의 고정과 유지에 중요하며, 불완전한 학습은 REM 수면의 증가를 자극하는 일련의 사건들은 가동시키고 이는 학습을 완성하는데 기여하는 것으로 보인다. 학습전, 후의 REM 수면의 박탈에 대한 연구도 REM 수면이 학습/기억 과정과 밀접히 관련됨을 시사한다. 학습전 REM 수면의 박탈에 대한 연구는 REM 수면이 장기기억에서 저장의 고정과정에 적극적으로 관여됨을 시사한다. 학습후 REM 수면의 박탈에 대한 연구는 REM 수면 "window"라는 개념을 이끌어 냈고 "window"에 해당하는 시간에 REM 수면을 박탈하면 학습장애를 초래하는데, 특히 학습 후 첫번째 나타나는 REM 수면 "window"가 학습과정에서 가장 중요함을 시사한다. REM 수면의 발생과 관련된 뇌의 전기신경생화학적인 일련의 사건들이 기억과 관련된다는 증거들이 많다. REM 수면중 발생하는 해마의 리듬과 기억의 신경생물 학적 기전에 관한 모델중 대표적인 모델인 장기증폭(long-term potentiation)의 관련성이 제안되고 있으며 REM 수면의 박탈은 중추신경계에서 단백질 합성의 장애 및 acetylcholine과 catecholamine 등의 신경 전달물질의 활성에 장애를 주고 이는 기억장애의 결과로 나타난다는 연구들이 있다. 아직도 REM 수면의 기억관련 기능은 의문점이 많다. 향후 분자생물학의 응용 및 뇌의 대사활동이 수면주기에 따라 아주 다름을 보여주는 brain metabolic mapping technique의 이용은 단백질의 합성의 수준에서 REM 수면과 기억/학습과정의 관련성에 대한 이해를 높여줄 것이다.

Personality can be understood in terms of cognitive and informational modulation. Augmenting and reducing evoked potential (AREP) has been known as the one of method to test this cognitive characteristic. Especially, many studies have been performed on the relationship between AREP and the Zuckerman Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and the Eysenck Personality Questinnaire (EPQ), which are well known as the psychological tests of personality. Generally sensation seekers tend to be augmenters and low sensation seekers tend to the rend to be reducers of EP. However, there are some reports that EP reducers are more extraverted on the EPQ and more sensation-seeking on the SSS than EP augmenters. These results may imply regulatory function of brain can be different depending on brain areas. According to the result of author's studies it can be assumed that frontocentral area works consistently with personality trend whereas right posterior temporal area performs inhibitory regulation against personality trend.

Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty(UPPP) is an operation that is frequently performed for the patient of obstructive sleep apnea(OSA). A major problem has been to select those patients who will have a good response to UPPP. We compared preoperative and postoperative polysomnography(PSG) in 20 patients to evaluate the success rate of the operation. Each subject underwent a cephalometric roentgenogram, and fiberoptic nasopharyngoscopy with Mueller maneuver was applied in roentgenogram and fiberoptic nasopharyngoscopy with Mueller maneuver was applied in preop evaluation of patients with OSA. No PSG parameter could accurately predict the changes in sleep after UPPP. There were no significant differences between the responders and the nonresponders concerning the cephalometric analysis, the type of obstruction by Mueller maneuver, and body mass index(BMI). The conclusions of this study are thus that UPPP is an effective treatment for the OSAS with a high success rate, but that there is no single useful parameter predicting the success of the operation.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the neurocognitive dysfunction and the degree of severity according to the oxygen desaturation in obstructive sleep apnea patients. We performed nocturnal polysomnographic recording and administered 3 Vienna Test System subtest of Reaction unit, Continuous attention and Cognitrone to 11 obstructive sleep patients and 13 controls. The result were as follows: 1) On Continous attentin and Cognitrone, patients with obstructive sleep apnea showed significant lower score on correct answer, higher score on missed answer and prolonged reaction time than control. But, there was no significant difference on Reaction unit between two groups. 2) Among 3 groups divided by degree of oxygen desaturation, there were no significant differences on Reaction unit. As the oxygen saturation decreased however, the obstructive sleep apnea group revealed significantly poor performance score on continuous attention and cognitrone. We suggested that obstructive sleep apnea patients showed disturbed neurocognitive function with complex cognitive process and the severity of neurocognitive dysfunction was also correlated with oxygen desaturation.

Narcolepsy is characterized by sleep attack with excessive daytime sleepiness(EDS), cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucination. Paradoxically, narcoleptics tend to complain of frequent arousals and shallow sleep during the night time despite their excessive sleepiness. However, nocturnal sleep fragmentation in narcoleptics is relatively ignored in treatment strategies, compared with sleep attack/EDS and cataplexy. In our paper, we attempted to investigate further on the poor nocturnal sleep in narcoleptics and to discuss possible treatment interventions. Out of consecutively seen patients at Seoul National University Sleep Disorders Clinic and Division of Sleep Studies, we recruited 57 patients, clinically assessed as having sleep attack and/or EDS. Nocturnal polysomnography and multiple sleep latency test(MSLT) were done in each of the subjects. We selected 19 subjects finally diagnosed as narcolepsy(mean age $26.0{\pm}18.3$ years, 16 men and 3 women) for this study, depending on the nocturnal polysomnographic and MSLT findings as well as clinical history and symptomatology. Any subject co-morbid with other hypersomnic sleep disorders such as sleep apnea or periodic limb movements during sleep was excluded. Sleep staging was done using Rechtschaffen and Kales criteria. Sleep parameters were calculated using PSDENT program(Stanford Sleep Clinic, version 1.2) and were compared with the age-matched normal values provided in the program. In narcoleptics, compared with the normal controls, total wake time was found to be significantly increased with significantly decreased sleep efficiency(p<.01, p<.05, respectively), despite no difference of sleep period time and total sleep time between the two groups. Stage 2 sleep%(p<.05), slow wave sleep%(p<.05), and REM sleep%(p<.01) were found to be significantly decreased in narcoleptics compared with normal controls, accompanied by the significant increase of stage 1 sleep%(p<.01). Age showed negative correlation with slow wave sleep%(p<.05). The findings in the present study indicate significant fragmentation of nocturnal sleep in narcoleptics. Reduction of REM sleep% and the total number of REM sleep periods suggests the disturbance of nocturnal REM sleep distribution in narcoleptics. No significant correlations between nocturnal polysomnographic and MSLT variables in narcoleptics suggest that nocturnal sleep disturbance in narcoleptics may be dealt with, in itself, in diagnosing and managing narcolepsy. With the objective demonstration of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of nocturnal and daytime sleep in narcoleptics, we suggest that more attention be paid to the nocturnal sleep fragmentation in narcoleptics and that appropriate treatment interventions such as active drug therapy and/or circadian rhythm-oriented sleep hygiene education be applied as needed.

Objectives : This study was designed to find clinical factors that could be differentiated by the lateralization of lesion and also find clinical factors to predict the lateralization of lesion. Methods : The subjects were 65 cooperative inpatients and outpatients with non-traumatic subcortical cerebrovascular disease without neurologic and psychiatric history from January 1995 to September 1995 ; 48 patients in Kyung Hee University, Oriental Medicine Hospital, 35 patients in Anam Hospital, Korea University were examined as subjects, but authors excluded 20 patients whose data were incomplete or who had uncertain lesions on brain CT or MRI. The 65 patients were divided into three groups-group with left hemispheric lesion, group with right hemispheric lesion, group with both hemispheric lesion-according to the finding of brain imaging study. Their cognitive functions were evaluated by the Benton Neuropsychological Assessment(BNA), their subjective neurobehavioral symptoms by Symptom Check List-90-R(SCL-90-R), their objective neurobehavioral symptoms by Neurobehavioral Rating Scale, and their daily living functions by Geriatric Evaluation by Relative's Rating Instrument(GERRl) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale(IADLs). Results : The results were as follows : 1) The results of cognitive function test indicated that the group with right hemispheric lesion showed low functions in Tactile Form Perception(left), the group with left hemispheric lesion showed low functions in Finger localization(right), the group with right hemispheric lesion showed low functions in Finger Localization(left). 2) Though, there were little significant differences in subjective neurobehavioral symptoms, the group with right hemispheric lesion showed higher scores in all symptoms except hostility. 3) Though, there were little significant differences in objective neurobehavioral symptoms, the group with both hemispheric lesion showed higher scores in cognition, guilty/disinhibition, the group with left hemispheric lesion showed higher scores in lability of mood, the group with right hemispheric lesion showed highest scores in psychotism, neurotism, agitation-hostility and decreased motivation/emotional withdrawal. 4) There were little significant differences among three groups in Daily Living Functions, but the group with right hemispheric lesion showed the lowest functions in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living. 5) As a result of discriminant analysis on each factor's contribution to the prediction of lesion, Finger Localization(left), Phoneme Discrimination and Tactile Form Perception(right) showed that they had the potentiality to predict lesion. Conclusion : The results suggest that there are little significant differences among the groups of three non-traumatic subcortical cerebrovascular disease in cognitive functions, but the group with right hemispheric lesion showed more serious and various changes in subjective and objective neurobehavioral symptoms, and showed low functions in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living. This results suggest the possibility that the decline of the daily living function in the group with right hemispheric lesion were due to various symptoms, not due to cognitive dysfunction. The confirmation of the possibility should be worked out through the follow-up study of some groups containing cortical lesion. Apart from these findings, Finger Localization, Tactile Form Perception(right) and Phoneme Discrimination suggest that they can be used as clinically valuable cognitive parameters that predict the lateralization of lesion in non-traumatic cerebrovascular disease.

연구목적 : 각종 질병에서 임상적으로 인지기능평가 및 선별검사로 유용하게 사용되고 있는 정신상태소검사(MMSE)와 간이인지평가척도(BCRS)가 비외상성 피질하 뇌혈관질환 환자에서 인지기능평가에 유용한가를 평가하기 위하여 본 연구를 시도하였다. 연구대상 및 방법 : 1995년 1월 1일부터 9월 30일까지 경희대 한방병원 및 고려대부속병원 신경과에 입원하거나 통원치료중인 비외상성 피질하 뇌혈관 질환 환자 85명과 정상대조군 195명을 대상으로 하였다. 또한 환자군중 65명을 뇌영상 촬영소견에 따라 좌반구손상(21명), 우반구손상(31명), 양반구손상(13명) 환자군으로 나누었다. 이들에게 인지기능은 벤튼신경심리검사(Benton Neuropsycho-logical Assessment : BNA)로, 일상생활기능면은 노인상태에 대한 보호자 측정척도(Geriatric Evaluation by Relative's Rating Instrument : GERRI) 및 도구적 일상생활 활동척도 (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale : IADLs)를 이용하여 평가하였다. 연구결과 : 1) BNA는 좌우지남력과 운동지속성을 제외하고는 모든 하위항목에서 유의한 차이를 보였으나 MMSE 총점수와 하위척도 모두든 환자군과 정상대조군간에 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. BCRS는 최근기억과 자신돌봄항목에서만 두 군간에 유의한 차이를 보였다. 2) 편측성에 따른 세군간의 비교에서 BNA는 촉각형태검사(좌측), 손가락위치검사(좌, 우측)에서 세군간 유의한 차이를 보였으나 MMSE나 BCRS에서는 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 3) 일상생활기능과 MMSE, BCRS와의 상관관계에서 정상대조군에서는 MMSE, BCRS의 총점수 및 하위 척도점수가 노인상태에 대한 보호자 측정척도(GERRI)의 인지기능 하위척도점수와만 유의한 상관관계를 갖는 반면, 환자군에서는 노인상태에 대한 보호자 측정척도(GERRI)의 인지기능척도점수 이외에도 사회적 기능척도점수 및 도구적 일상생활 활동척도(IADLs) 점수와도 유의한 상관을 가져 두 군간에 차이를 보였다. 결론 : MMSE와 BCRS는 비외상 피질하 뇌혈관질환 환자에서 인지기능평가나 편측성 구분에 유용하지 않았다. 그러나 이들 검사는 환자군에서 일상생활기능과 같은 기능수준을 반영하고 있음을 보여 주었다.

Kleine-Levin syndrome is a disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of hypersomnia, hyperphagia and hypersexuality that typically occur weeks or months apart. A 17-years-old male showed these episodes and took nocturnal polysomnography(NPSG) and multiple sleep latency test(MSLT). As results of NPSG, sleep latency was 82.5min, sleep efficiency was 82.5min, sleep efficiency was 82.5%, latency and percentage of REM sleep were 106.5min and 14.6% and percentage of slow wave sleep was 12.7%. In 4 times MLST, average of sleep latency and REM latency were 8min 7sec and 5min 20sec with 3 times sleep onset REM period(SOREMP). These findings are consistent with these of Keine-Levin syndrome. And the possible causes and classification of this syndrome were discussed.

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome(OSAS) in childhood is unique and different n-om that in adulthood in several aspects, including pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnostic criteria, complications, management, and prognosis. Characteristic features of childhood OSAS in comparison with the adult form are the variety of severe complications such as developmental delay, more prominent behavioral and cognitive impairments, vivid cardiovascular symptoms, and increased death risk, warranting a special attention to the possible diagnosis of OSAS in children who snore. However, the childhood OSAS is often neglected and unrecognized. We, therefore, report a case of very severe OSAS in a 5-year-old boy who was sucessfully treated with continuous positive airway pressure(CPAP) treatment. Interestingly, the patient was comor-bid with the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Prior to the initial visit to us, adenotonsillectomy had been done at the age of 4 with no significant improvement of apneic symptoms and heavy snoring. On the initial diagnostic procedures, marked degree of snoring was audible even in the daytime wake state and the patient was observed to be very hyperactive. Increased pulmonary vascularity with borderline cardiomegaly was noted on chest X-ray. The baseline polysomnography revealed that the patient was very sleep-apneic and snored very heavily, with the respiratory disturbance index(RDI) of 46.9 per hour of sleep, the mean SaO2 of 78.8%, and the lowest SaO2 of 40.0%(the lowest detectable oxygen level by the applied oxymeter). The second night polysomnography was done for CPAP titration and the optimal pressure turned out to be $8.0\;cmH_2O$. The applied CPAP treatment was well tolerated by the patient and was found to be very effective in alleviating heavy snoring and severe repetitive sleep apneas. After 18 months of the CPAP treatment, the patient was followed up with nocturnal polysomnography(baseline and CPAP nights) and clinical examination. Sleep apneas were still present without CPAP on the baseline night. However, the severity of OSAS was significantly decreased(RDI of 15.7, mean SaO2 of 96.2%, and the lowest SaO2 of 83.0%), compared to the initial polysomnographic findings before initiation of long-term CPAP treatment. Wechsler intelligence tests done before and after the CPAP treatment were compared with each other and surprising improvement of intelligence(total 9 points, performance 16 points) was noted. Clinically he was found to be markedly improved in his attention deficit hyperactive behavior after CPAP treatment, but with minimal change of TOVA(test of variables of attention) scores except conversion of reaction time score into normal range. On the chest X-ray taken after 18 months of CPAP application, the initial cardiopulmonary abnormalities were not found at all. We found that the CPAP treatment in a young child is very effective, safe, and well-tolerated and also improves the co-morbid attention deficit hyperactive symptoms. Overall, the growth and development of the child has been facilitated with the long-term use of CPAP. Cardiovascular complications induced by OSAS have been also normalized with CPAP treatment. We suggest that early diagnosis and active treatment intervention of OSAS in children are crucial in preventing and ameliorating possible serious complications caused by repetitive sleep apneas and consequent hypoxic damage during sleep.