Epileptic Activity during Sleep and Wakefulness
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- sleep and-sleep-disorders
- Published by S. Karger AG in European Neurology
- Vol. 25 (2) , 141-145
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000116095
Abstract
In23 untreated patients the temporal distribution of generalized spike-wave activity was investigated by means of mobile long-term EEG recordings. Distribution classes (S, A, W) were defined if the relative amount of epileptic activity within the phases sleep, awakening and waking exceeded a threshold, otherwise a diffuse distribution (D) was scored. A, S and D distributions were found approximately with the same frequency. In no patient was the middle part of the night most prominent. In one patient, it was shown by micro-hypnograms that ‘micro-arousals’ are closely related to spike-wave activity.Keywords
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