Main articleParoxysmal periodic motor attacks during sleep: clinical and polygraphic features
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Nocturnal motor events in epilepsy: Is there a defined physiological network?
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2016, Sleep Medicine ReviewsCitation Excerpt :Further S-EEG studies could be useful in clarifying the relationship between these modulating factors, the epileptic discharges and the motor and behavioral output. While all PAs recorded with S-EEG were associated with EDs, the same cannot be said of MME. Defined in the previous section, MME are known to occur quasi-periodically during long stretches of NREM sleep, mostly during phases of unstable sleep, more precisely in relation with the phase A of the cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) [7,69]. MME may occur very frequently during sleep (reported range: 61–561) and, when excessive, lead to sleep fragmentation (increased CAP rate), loss of total NREM sleep time and increase daytime sleepiness, at least in patients with drug-resistant sleep-related seizures [64,71].
Effects of antiepileptic treatment on sleep and seizures in nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
2013, Sleep MedicineCitation Excerpt :To the extent that these stereotyped brief motor phenomena are a motor component of an arousal triggered by epileptic discharges, the possibility that MMEs could be considered of epileptic origin appears plausible [10]. Few patients exhibit only one type of seizure; however, different seizures usually are likely to overlap in the same patient, and the briefest episodes are the initial fragment of more prolonged attacks [7]. According to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders [15], nocturnal video-polysomnography (VPSG) is the main investigative tool for a sleep-related epilepsy, in which interictal and ictal epileptic discharges confirm the clinical diagnosis.
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