Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy and non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias: Differences and similarities

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-254

  Nobili, Lino ^a  

^a Centre of Epilepsy Surgery C Munari   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOREOATHETOSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP; SEIZURE; SLEEP;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; NOCTURNAL PAROXYSMAL DYSTONIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEIZURES; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDERS; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 34447095497     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2007.03.009     Document Type: Editorial

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