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EEG of Premature ( GA 24-27 Weeks)
Continuity Discontinuous, long flat stretches (tracé discontinu)
Interhemispheric synchrony Short bursts in synchrony
Differentiation of waking and sleeping
Posterior basic alpha rhythm Undifferentiated
Slow activity (awake)
Temporal theta burst None
Occipital theta
Fast activity (awake) Very slow high voltage bursts
Low voltage
Tracé alternant Present and increasing
Spindles
Vertex waves and K complexes Prominent
Positive occipital sharp transients
Slow and fast activity in sleep Very little beta activity
REM sleep
Long flat stretches
None
None
None
None
Slow activity of high voltage, little slow activity
Undifferentiated
Niedermeyer E Electroencephalography 1999
