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Table 2 Representative sleep-related epilepsy

From: Abnormal behaviors during sleep from the viewpoint of sleep epileptology: current and future perspectives on diagnosis

Sleep epilepsy

 Sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy (nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy)

 Temporal lobe epilepsy

 Benign epilepsy of children with centrotemporal foci

 Benign epilepsy with occipital paroxysms

 Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (tonic seizures)

 Epilepsy with continuous spikes and waves during slow-wave sleep

 Landau-Kleffner syndrome (acquired epileptic aphasia)

Awakening epilepsy

 Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

 Epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures on awakening