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Nocturnal Seizures

2109 words/8 pages

They are often confused with other paroxysmal events like parasomnias1 . These seizures profoundly disrupt sleep structure , thus affecting daytime functioning of the patients . 6 year old Patient X presented with generalized seizure without motor activity but with unresponsiveness and a staring look which lasted for atleast 5 minutes during sleep . Whether he had few other such episodes in the past is not clearly known . But the fact that he had 2 bed wettings in the preceding week and a few...