Paroxysmal periodic motor attacks during sleep: clinical and polygraphic features

E. Sforza; P. Montagna; R. Rinaldi; P. Tinuper; A. Cerullo; F. Cirignotta; E. Lugaresi

doi:10.1016/0013-4694(93)90003-E

Paroxysmal periodic motor attacks during sleep: clinical and polygraphic features

E. Sforza, P. Montagna, R. Rinaldi, P. Tinuper, A. Cerullo, F. Cirignotta, E. Lugaresi

Istituto Scienze Neurologiche

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Abstract

Three patients complained of paroxysmal motor attacks during sleep. Videopolygraphic recordings showed that motor activity could be divided into events of increasing behavioural complexity. Simpler motor events often represented the initial fragment of more complex attacks. Clinical features suggested the attacks represented frontal lobe epileptic seizures. The attacks recurred during NREM sleep with a periodic repetition every 20-60 sec. This periodicity could be related to the analogous physiological oscillation during light sleep and the periodicity of K complexes, exerting a facilitating influence upon epileptic mechanisms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	161-166
Number of pages	6
Journal	Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology
Volume	86
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-4694(93)90003-E
Publication status	Published - 1993

Keywords

Frontal epilepsy
Motor seizures
Nocturnal attacks
Periodicity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Clinical Neurology
Neuroscience(all)

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