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Psychiatry
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Sleep and Epilepsy
Sleep and epilepsy have a mutual connection. Sleep may activate interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) and/or trigger seizures. Comorbid sleep-related disorders which chronically induce sleep fragmentation ...
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Insomnia in primary care: a survey conducted on Italian patients older than 50 years—results from the “Sonno e Salute” study
Insomnia affects one-third of the adult population and is associated with multiple medical conditions. We conducted an observational epidemiological survey to assess (1) the prevalence of insomnia in an Italia...
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Open AccessClinical characteristics of a large cohort of patients with narcolepsy candidate for pitolisant: a cross-sectional study from the Italian PASS Wakix® Cohort
Narcolepsy is a chronic and rare hypersomnia of central origin characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and a complex array of symptoms as well as by several medical comorbidities. With growing pharmacolo...
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Local Cortical Activations During REM Sleep and Implications for RBD
Different neuroimaging and intracerebral EEG studies have shown that brain activity during physiologic REM sleep in humans is not temporally and spatially homogeneous. Indeed, some brain regions (i.e., motor c...
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Sleep and Epilepsy
This chapter outlines an interaction between sleep and epilepsy including effect of sleep on epilepsy, epilepsy on sleep, and antiepileptic medication on sleep, preceded by a brief discussion about mechanism o...
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Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy presenting with restless leg syndrome-like symptoms
We describe the case of a 22-year-old male affected by NFLE reporting paroxysmal RLS-like symptoms. The patient was referred to our Sleep Center due to nocturnal paresthesias and cramps involving the left leg ...
