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Nocturnal partial seizures and arousals/awakenings from sleep: an ambulatory EEG study
R Manni1, C A Galimberti, I Sartori
1Epilepsy and Sleep Centre, C. Mondino Institute of Neurology, University of Pavia, Italy.
Functional Neurology
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
The architecture of nocturnal sleep in twenty subjects (9 males, 11 females, mean age 27 years) affected by partial cryptogenic epilepsy was investigated by means of ambulatory EEG (A-EEG) recording performed at home. The study aimed in particular to ascertain the immediate effects of nocturnal partial epileptic seizures on sleep stability and continuity. Data for a total of 49 recorded seizures indicate that 72% of the partial seizures which occurred during sleep were followed by arousal and awakening, and that sleep interruption lasted significantly longer when the seizure occurred between 4 and 7 a.m.