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of 'Video and ambulatory EEG monitoring in the diagnosis of seizures and epilepsy'
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Incidence of spikes and paroxysmal rhythmic events in overnight ambulatory computer-assisted EEGs of normal subjects: a multicenter study.
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Schachter SC, Ito M, Wannamaker BB, Rak I, Ruggles K, Matsuo F, Wilner A, Jackel R, Gilliam F, Morris G, Skantz J, Sperling M, Buchhalter J, Drislane FW, Ives J, Schomer DL
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J Clin Neurophysiol. 1998;15(3):251.
The incidences of spikes and paroxysmal rhythmic events (PREs) in 10-h overnight EEGs of normal adult volunteers (n=135) were studied at 11 sites with a computer-assisted ambulatory EEG monitoring system with automatic spike and PRE detection. Spikes were evident in the overnight EEG of 1 subject (0.7%), and PREs were apparent in the overnight EEG of the same subject (0.7%). The incidences of spikes of 24 other subjects with a history of migraine and/or a family history of epilepsy were 12.5 and 13.3%, respectively. The overnight EEGs of these subjects were significantly more likely to show spikes than the overnight EEGs of subjects without migraine or a family history of epilepsy.
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Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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