title: Comparative study of efficacy of waking and sleep recordings following sleep deprivation as an activation method in the diagnosis of epilepsy.
abstract: In the present work, on the basis of an unselected collection of patients suspected of epilepsy, the diagnostic value of waking and sleep recordings each after 24 h sleep deprivation are compared with one another. Indicative findings of epilepsy were found in 16.7% of the cases in the waking EEG after sleep deprivation. In the sleep EEG after sleep deprivation this amounted to 57.1%. These figures speak for the advantage of the second method. The result is highly significant with a chi2 value of 13.01 (p less than 0.01).
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012890:Sleep; D012892:Sleep Deprivation; D014851:Wakefulness