Experimental neurology
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Experimental neurology · Apr 1984
Paroxysmal discharges during paradoxical sleep anticipating the occurrence of focal motor seizures in cats.
Sleep recordings were made some days before the occurrence of focal motor seizures in cats injected with alumina cream in the motor cortex. The wakefulness EEG was completely normal. ⋯ They were only electrographic and never produced arousal of the animals. The precipitating role of phasic paradoxical sleep on focal motor seizures is proposed.