ArticleBrain communications2023
Asymmetry of sleep electrophysiological markers in patients with focal epilepsy.
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Abstract
Sleep can modulate epileptic activities, but our knowledge of sleep perturbation by epilepsy remains sparse. Interestingly, epilepsy and sleep both present with defining electrophysiological features in the form of specific graphoelements on EEG. This raises the possibility to identify, within ongoing EEG activity, how epilepsy impacts and disrupts sleep. Here, we asked whether the presence of a lateralized epileptic focus interferes with the expression of the dominant electrophysiological hallmarks of sleep: slow oscillations, slow waves and spindles. To this aim, we conducted a cross-sectional study and analysed sleep recordings with surface EEG from 69 patients with focal epilepsy (age range at EEG: 17-61 years, 29 females, 34 left focal epilepsy). Comparing patients with left and right focal epilepsy, we assessed inter-hemispheric asymmetry of sleep slow oscillations power (delta range, 0.5-4 Hz); sleep slow wave density; amplitude, duration and slope; and spindle density, amplitude, duration as well as locking to slow oscillations. We found significantly different asymmetries in slow oscillation power (
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