CITTERIO , A.

Hyperkinetic seizures are considered a typical manifestation of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE). Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy with mainly sleeprelated seizures have been described; however they commonly lack hyperkinetic activity and seizure frequency is low. We retrospectively analysed our population of 442 consecutive patients...

Of the cases with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) ∼30% are refractory to antiepileptic medication, with several patients suffering from the effects of both ongoing seizures and disrupted sleep. From a consecutive series of 522 patients operated on for drug-resistant focal epilepsy, 21 cases (4%), whose frontal lobe seizures occurred...