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ERNST NIEDERMEYER, MD

Arch Neurol. 1965;12(6):625-630.

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THERE are only scanty reports in the literature dealing with sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) records in petit mal epilepsy. This can be easily understood since waking records are so frequently diagnostic or highly informative in this condition. It has been, however, pointed out by Gibbs and Gibbs¹ that, in petit mal epileptics, seizure discharges do occur more frequently in sleep (89% of their cases) than in the waking state (84%). The Gibbses felt that the petit mal discharge is usually altered in sleep and may be replaced by a "grand mal component."

Passouant et al² investigated the reactivity to auditory stimuli during the sleep of petit mal epileptics. A more recent study from the Montpellier School by Delange et al³ dealt with nocturnal sleep in six patients with petit mal epilepsy; these authors showed suppression of paroxysmal bursts during the stage of generalized desynchronization in "paradoxical sleep." . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
IOWA CITY

From the Division of EEG and Neurophysiology, Department of Psychiatry, Psychopathic Hospital. University of Iowa, College of Medicine; Associate Professor.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 21, 1965; accepted Feb 2.

Presented at the meeting of the Eastern EEG Society, New York, Dec 2, 1964.

Reprint requests to 500 Newton Rd, Iowa City, Iowa (Dr. Niedermeyer).

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