The wide clinical spectrum of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 375-386

  Provini, Federica ^a   Plazzi, Giuseppe ^a   Montagna, Pasquale ^a   Lugaresi, Elio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Episodic nocturnal wandering; Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy; Nocturnal paroxysmal dystonia; Parasomnias; Paroxysmal arousal

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

AGE; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; AROUSAL; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSKINESIA; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAMILY HISTORY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; SLEEP WALKING;

EID: 0033867147     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/smrv.2000.0109     Document Type: Review

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