title: Some facts about sleep relevant for Landau-Kleffner syndrome.
abstract: Our understanding of the neural mechanisms of non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) is steadily increasing. Given the intriguing activation of paroxysmal activity during NREM sleep in patients with Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), a thorough characterization of commonalities and differences between the neural correlates of LKS paroxysms and normal sleep oscillations might provide useful information on the neural underpinning of this disorder. Especially, given the suspected role of sleep in brain plasticity, this type of information is needed to assess the link between cognitive deterioration and electroencephalography (EEG) paroxysms during sleep.
authors.affiliation: Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège-Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium. pmaquet@ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mascetti
authors.forename: Ariane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Foret
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonjean
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Matarazzo
authors.forename: Thanh
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dang-Vu
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maquet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D018887:Landau-Kleffner Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology; D017286:Polysomnography; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology