Diagnostic Value of Spontaneous Afternoon Sleep in Epilepsy: Polysomnographic Study of 96 Epileptic Patients
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in European Neurology
- Vol. 25 (1) , 26-31
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000115982
Abstract
An early afternoon polysomnographic recording was performed in 112 epileptic patients in order to better define their epileptic disease. 96 subjects (85.7%) slept spontaneously and sleep EEG tracing resulted in diagnostically useful data in 47.8% of cases, a significantly higher percentage than that obtained from tests performed in basal conditions. EEG activation, mostly linked to light NREM sleep stages, was greater in infanto-juvenile subjects than in adults.Keywords
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