The role of NREM sleep micro-arousals in absence epilepsy and in nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 9-19

  Halász, Péter ^a   Kelemen, Anna ^a   Szucs, Anna ^a  

^a National Institute of Neuroscience   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Cyclic alternating pattern (CAP); Micro arousal; Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy; Reactive slow waves; System epilepsies

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ABSENCE; AROUSAL; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT NOCTURNAL FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MICROAROUSAL; NEUROMODULATION; NOCTURNAL FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPIKE WAVE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THALAMUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ABSENCE EPILEPSY; CYCLIC ALTERNATING PATTERN (CAP); MICRO-AROUSAL; NOCTURNAL FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; REACTIVE SLOW WAVES; SYSTEM EPILEPSIES;

AROUSAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84886953451     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.06.021     Document Type: Review

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