title: Structure of the spontaneous all night sleep in epileptics with polysomnography.
abstract: Twenty epileptics and 11 healthy controls were investigated with polysomnography. Epileptics with interictal discharges had significantly longer total recording time and longer REM latency than the controls (P<0.05). Epileptics had a more fragmentized sleep than controls. Sleep efficiency of patients with interictal discharges was lower than that of patients without them (P<0.05). Among the patients with interictal discharges, those with partial seizures had a significantly higher arousal number than those with generalized seizures (P<0.05). The number of NREM stage shifts in patients with partial seizures tended to be higher than in those with generalized seizures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China. jianchuanli@vip.sina.com
authors.forename: W W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Q H
authors.initials: QH
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017286:Polysomnography; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000503:physiopathology; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology