Slimebeast on 24 November 2009
| NJ5 said: Slimebeast interesting that it's always the eyes. I wonder if it has any relationship to the fact that during sleep the only active muscles are those controlling the eyes? |
Maybe. I don't remember how the voluntary muscles are put out of control during comative states such as sleep, but I think the main reason why the eye muscles are preserved is that their innervation (nerve paths) are anatomically situated a lot higher in the brain stem (or even within the brain itself, I dont remember lol) while all other muscle innervation goes thru paths lower in the brain stem which in locked-in-syndrom has been damaged.
