title: [Significance of muscular artefacts during absences].
abstract: Among 1.000 absences registered in the electroencephalogram 373 were associated with automatisms. These 373 absences were ascribed to 3 groups with different clinical symptoms according to different timing of the automatisms. In the first two groups automatisms prevail in the motor picture, whereas in the third group of absences adversive movements and/or rhythmic myoclonias were predominant motor elements. The occurrence of automatisms after spike wave potentials confirms, that the true absence may last longer than is expressed by the electroencephalogram (E.E.G.). Similar conditions are known for the behaviour of the autonomous reflexes during the absence. The accordance of clinical and reflex myographical phenomena during the absence suggests a common pathophysiological origin.
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D001332:Automatism / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Bedeutung von Muskelartefakten während der Absence