Nocturnal Familial Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

Abstract

A clinical and video-polysomnographic (VPS) study in 40 patients complaining of repeated abnormal nocturnal motor and/or behavioral phenomena, from 30 unrelated Italian families, is reported from the Sleep Disorders Centre and the Department of Biology and Genetics for Medical Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.

Keywords

• video-polysomnographic
• autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
• ictal epileptiform abnormalities