Relationship of sigma activity to sleep interictal epileptic discharges: A study in children affected by benign epilepsy with occipital paroxysms

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 179-186

  Beelke, M ^a   Nobili, L ^a   Baglietto, M G ^a   De Carli, F ^b   Robert, A ^a   De Negri, E ^a   Ferrillo, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

BEOP; Epilepsy; NREM; Spectral analysis; Spikes; Spindles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DELTA RHYTHM; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 0034046581     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(00)00131-5     Document Type: Article

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