Y.Iwadare
NREM sleep instability in benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes
Reduced NREM sleep instability in benign childhood… [Clin Neurophysiol. 2010] 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20097604
  • Sleep architecture is not importantly affected in BERS but CAP analysis reveals a decrease of NREM instability,
  • the decrease of CAP and of EEG slow oscillations and arousals might be linked with the inhibitory action of spindling activity and spikes on arousals
  • Spike activity and CAP A1 subtypes seem to be mutually exclusive probably because centro-temporal spikes disturb the physiological synchronization mechanisms needed for the generation of slow-wave components of CAP
  • CAP analysis discloses sleep structure abnormalities in children with BERS not shown by the classical sleep scoring
BECT:Benign epilepsy of childhood with centro-temporal spikesもしくはbenign epilepsy with rolandic spikes (BERS)は睡眠構築に異常をきたす。
通常の脳波測定ではわからないが,CAP測定で睡眠構築障害が明かになるのだそうだ。

Benign epilepsy of childhood with centro-temporal spikesは児童期に頻度が多く、認知機能障害との関連も言われていているので中々興味深い。

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