ROLE OF DEEP BRAIN STRUCTURES IN OCCURRING EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE
Abstract
The paper provides analysis of values of videoelectroencephalographic monitoring during sleep of patient with idiopathic generalised tonic-clonic seizures. The electroencephalogram of the second stage of deep sleep demonstrates generalised epileptiform activity that occurs independently of the ‘sleep spindles’ and detects that the structure of ‘sleep spindles’ is kept even when the epileptiform pattern is being recorded. These facts prove to be inconsistent with the key thalamocortical relationship theory postulate, which is a transformation of ‘sleep spindles’ into ‘spike-wave’ and ‘sharp-slow wave’ complexes. The case follow-up reliably confirms that the rhythms of high amplitude ‘spike-wave’ and ‘sharp-slow wave’ complexes known to occur in the electroencephalograms of patients with idiopathic generalised epilepsy are only a cortical phenomenon likely to be caused by ‘sleep spindles’ activity. The incitation spreads by cortical structures, only.
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Gulyaev S.A. ROLE OF DEEP BRAIN STRUCTURES IN OCCURRING EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE. Pacific Medical Journal. 2013;(3):91-94. (In Russ.)
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