title: Diagnostic value of spontaneous afternoon sleep in epilepsy: polysomnographic study of 96 epileptic patients.
abstract: An early afternoon polysomnographic recording was performed in 112 epileptic patients in order to better define their epileptic disease. 96 subjects (85.7%) slept spontaneously and sleep EEG tracing resulted in diagnostically useful data in 47.8% of cases, a significantly higher percentage than that obtained from tests performed in basal conditions. EEG activation, mostly linked to light NREM sleep stages, was greater in infanto-juvenile subjects than in adults.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors