Definition and diagnostic criteria of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy

Paolo Tinuper¹, Francesca Bisulli¹, J H Cross¹+27

• ¹From IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche (P.T., F.B., F. Provini, L.V., L.L., B.M., I.N.), Bologna; Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (P.T., F.B., F. Provini, L.L.), University of Bologna, Italy; University College London-Institute of Child Health (J.H.C.), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London and Young Epilepsy, Lingfield, UK; Department of Epidemiology (D.H., R.O.), Mailman School of Public Health, and G.H. Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY; Unité Médicale Epilepsie et Malaises (P.K.), Pôle de Neurologie et Psychiatrie, CHU de Grenoble, France; "C. Munari" Center for Epilepsy Surgery (L.N., L.T.), Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy; Epilepsy Research Centre (I.E.S.), Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Australia; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Bern, Switzerland; Unit of Neurology (F.C.), S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Italy; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (C.D.), Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK; Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (A.G.), Institute of Neurology, University Magna Græcia, Catanzaro, Italy; Neurology Unit and Laboratories (R.G., C.M.), A. Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy; National Institute of Clinical Neuroscience (P.H.), Budapest, Hungary; Department of Neurology (M.M.), University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis; Institute of Neurology Mondino (R.M.), University of Pavia; Sleep Disorders Center (L.P.), Department of Neurology, University of Parma, Italy; Department of Neurology (F. Picard), University Hospital and Medical School of Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Biomedical and Surgical Sciences (M.P.), University of Ferrara, Italy; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (P.R.), CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland; Functional Neurology and Epileptology (P.R.), Hospices Civils de Lyon and CRNL, Lyon; Epilepsy Institute (P.R.), IDEE, Lyon, France