Stimulus-Induced, Sleep-Bound, Focal Seizures: A Case Report | Zendy

Francesca Siclari | Zendy; Lino Nobili | Zendy; Giorgio Lo Russo | Zendy; Alessio Moscato | Zendy; Alfred Buck | Zendy; Claudio L. Bassetti | Zendy; Ramin Khatami | Zendy

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Stimulus-Induced, Sleep-Bound, Focal Seizures: A Case Report

Author(s) -

Francesca Siclari,

Lino Nobili,

Giorgio Lo Russo,

Alessio Moscato,

Alfred Buck,

Claudio L. Bassetti,

Ramin Khatami

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.5665/sleep.1448

Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , psychology , audiology , electroencephalography , sleep (system call) , neuroscience , medicine , cognitive psychology , computer science , operating system

In nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE), seizures occur almost exclusively during NREM sleep. Why precisely these seizures are sleep-bound remains unknown. Studies of patients with nonlesional familial forms of NFLE have suggested the arousal system may play a major role in their pathogenesis. We report the case of a patient with pharmaco-resistant, probably cryptogenic form of non-familial NFLE and strictly sleep-bound seizures that could be elicited by alerting stimuli and were associated with ictal bilateral thalamic and right orbital-insular hyperperfusion on SPECT imaging.

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