title: [Apparently critical posterior activity in a non-epileptic subject: variations during wakefulness and sleep (author's transl)].
abstract: Sub-clinical critical discharges arising from the posterior temporal or temporo-occipital regions, which were bilateral but independent, were seen at each examination (5) of a 13 year old non-epileptic child over a period of more than a year. The discharges were present during wakefulness and while falling asleep. They were blocked during the deep slom-ware stage and paradoxical phase of sleep. They were not modified by anti-convulsant therapy and there was no previous family history. Their relation to Gibb's "Psychomotor variant discharge" is envisaged.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D014851:Wakefulness
vernacular_title: Activité postérieure apparemment critique chez un sujet non-épileptique. Variation au cours de la veille et du sommeil.