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 | |
| Publication status | Published - 1993 |
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Keywords
- Frontal epilepsy
- Motor seizures
- Nocturnal attacks
- Periodicity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Neuroscience(all)
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Paroxysmal periodic motor attacks during sleep : clinical and polygraphic features. / Sforza, E.; Montagna, P.; Rinaldi, R.; Tinuper, P.; Cerullo, A.; Cirignotta, F.; Lugaresi, E.
In: Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol. 86, No. 3, 1993, p. 161-166.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Paroxysmal periodic motor attacks during sleep
T2 - clinical and polygraphic features
AU - Sforza, E.
AU - Montagna, P.
AU - Rinaldi, R.
AU - Tinuper, P.
AU - Cerullo, A.
AU - Cirignotta, F.
AU - Lugaresi, E.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Frontal epilepsy
KW - Motor seizures
KW - Nocturnal attacks
KW - Periodicity
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