ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Interictal epileptiform activity in sleep and wakefulness in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Broutian AG, Belyakova-Bodina AI, Dolgova SM, Pushkar TN, Abramova AA
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Research Center of Neurology, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Amayak G. Broutian
Leningradsky Prospect, 33, Moscow, 125284; ur.liam@naituorba

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Author contribution: Broutian AG — research planning, literature analysis, data interpretation, manuscript drafting; Belyakova-Bodina AI, Abramova AA — data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript drafting; Dolgova SM, Pushkar TN — data collection, analysis.

Received: 2019-08-23 Accepted: 2019-09-30 Published online: 2019-11-07
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Fig. 1. An example of a hypnogram with ED marks. X-axis shows astronomical time. Y-axis shows sleep stages and wakefulness. Blue vertical lines in the top are ED marks. Wake, wakefulness periods; N1, stage 1; N2, stage 2; N3, stage 3 (slow-wave sleep); REM, REM sleep
Fig. 2. Registered combinations of sleep stages with EDs. Combinations of sleep stages with EDs are highlighted with braces. Numbers in the middle of the braces reflect the number of patients with certain ED distribution
Fig. 3. Trends of EDIs for each sleep stage and wakefulness in patients with temporal discharges
Fig. 4. Relative EDIs for each sleep stage and wakefulness in patients with temporal discharges
Table 1. The number of recordings having EDs in certain sleep stages or wakefulness and average relative EDIs