Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. A video-polysomnographic and genetic appraisal of 40 patients and delineation of the epileptic syndrome

Brain : a Journal of Neurology
A OldaniL Ferini-Strambi

Abstract

A number of clinical and aetiological studies have been performed, during the last 30 years, on patients with abnormal nocturnal motor and behavioural phenomena. The aetiological conclusions of these studies were often conflicting, suggesting either an epileptic or a non-epileptic origin. Among the clinical characteristics of these patients, the familial clustering was one thoroughly accepted. A nocturnal familial form of frontal lobe epilepsy (autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy, ADNFLE), often misdiagnosed as parasomnia, has been recently described in some families. In one large Australian kindred, a missense mutation in the second transmembrane domain of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 4 subunit (CHRNA4) gene, located on chromosome 20 q13.2-13.3, has been reported to be associated with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. We performed an extensive clinical and video-polysomnographic study in 40 patients complaining of repeated abnormal nocturnal motor and/or behavioural phenomena, from 30 unrelated Italian families. Thirty-eight patients had an electroclinical picture strongly suggesting the diagnosis of ADNFLE. They had a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from nocturnal enuresis to sleep-related...Continue Reading

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