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Dedication
We dedicate this supplement to Sleep Medicine to our esteemed friend and colleague, Pasquale Montagna, MD, who prematurely died at the height of his career just over a year after the Bologna symposium...
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F. Provini,
S. Chokroverty
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S1
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Introduction
Movement disorders during sleep are one of the most fascinating and exciting topics in Sleep Medicine. The advent and availability of video-recording techniques have provided clinicians with valuable ...
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Federica Provini,
Sudhansu Chokroverty
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S2
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Agrypnia Excitata
Abstract: The concept of Agrypnia excitata (AE) was originally proposed as a concept deriving from the clinical and anatomo-pathological observations obtained in three different diseases, Fatal famili...
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Elio Lugaresi,
Federica Provini,
Pietro Cortelli
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S3-S10
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Sleep-to-wake transition movement disorders
Abstract: Consciousness and vigilance level are important factors for the manifestation and variability of many disorders, including movement disorders. Usually lumped together into unspecified “Wakef...
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Roberto Vetrugno,
Pasquale Montagna
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S11-S16
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Pre- and post-dormitum epilepsies: Idiopathic generalized epilepsies
Abstract: Epilepsy and sleep have a profound bidirectional influence. Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) comprises a fascinating group of syndromes that constitute nearly one-third of all epilepsie...
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Elena Zambrelli,
Maria Paola Canevini
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S17-S21
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Arousal disorders
Abstract: Arousal Disorders (AD) are motor behaviours arising from NREM sleep. They comprise a spectrum of manifestations of increasing complexity from confusional arousal to sleep terror to sleepwalk...
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Federica Provini,
Paolo Tinuper,
Francesca Bisulli,
Elio Lugaresi
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S22-S26
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Parasomnias and nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE): Lights and shadows – Controversial points in the differential diagnosis
Abstract: Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is characterized by seizures with complex, often bizarre, violent behaviour arising only or mainly during sleep. These unusual seizures and their occur...
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Francesca Bisulli,
Luca Vignatelli,
Federica Provini,
Chiara Leta,
Elio Lugaresi,
Paolo Tinuper
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S27-S32
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Epileptic motor behaviors during sleep: Anatomo-electro-clinical features
Abstract: Background: Sleep-related complex motor seizures have long been considered pathognomonic features of Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy (NFLE). In recent years, these manifestations have also b...
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P. Proserpio,
M. Cossu,
S. Francione,
F. Gozzo,
G. Lo Russo,
R. Mai,
A. Moscato,
M. Schiariti,
I. Sartori,
L. Tassi,
L. Nobili
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S33-S38
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Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy: New pathophysiological interpretations
Abstract: Since the first descriptions of Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy (NFLE) many theories have been proposed to explain its pathophysiological mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to formulate a ...
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Paolo Tinuper,
Francesca Bisulli,
Federica Provini,
Pasquale Montagna,
Elio Lugaresi
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S39-S42
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Does idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) really exist? What are the potential markers of neurodegeneration in iRBD?
Abstract: REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) may be idiopathic or associated with other neurologic disorders. A strong association between RBD and α-synucleinopathies has recently been observed, with t...
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Luigi Ferini-Strambi
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S43-S49
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Secondary ‘‘incidental’’ REM sleep behavior disorder: Do we ever think of it?
Abstract: Most secondary forms of REM sleep behavior disorder are associated with neurodegenerative diseases belonging to the α-synucleinopathies or with narcolepsy. However, RBD may also occur in sub...
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Raffaele Manni,
Pietro-Luca Ratti,
Michele Terzaghi
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S50-S53
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REM behaviour disorder and neurodegenerative diseases
Abstract: Rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is an REM sleep parasomnia characterized by enactment of dream content during REM sleep associated with loss of muscle atonia. RBD can...
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Stefano Zanigni,
Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura,
Daniela Grimaldi,
Pietro Cortelli
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S54-S58
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Motor events during REM sleep in patients with narcolepsy–cataplexy: A video-polysomnographic pilot study
Abstract: Objective: We carried out a systematic video-polysomnographic analysis of the number and type of motor events during REM sleep in narcolepsy–cataplexy patients with REM sleep behavior disord...
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Christian Franceschini,
Raffaele Ferri,
Fabio Pizza,
Lara Ricotta,
Stefano Vandi,
Stefania Detto,
Francesca Poli,
Carlo Pruneti,
Michela Mazzetti,
Carlo Cipolli,
Elio Lugaresi,
Giuseppe Plazzi
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S59-S63
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Oneiric stupor: The peculiar behaviour of agrypnia excitata
Abstract: Agrypnia excitata (AE) is a syndrome characterized by the inability to sleep associated with a generalized motor and autonomic over-activation. AE is caused by a thalamo-limbic system dysfun...
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Pietro Guaraldi,
Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura,
Rossana Terlizzi,
Pasquale Montagna,
Elio Lugaresi,
Paolo Tinuper,
Pietro Cortelli,
Federica Provini
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S64-S67
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From REM sleep behaviour disorder to status dissociatus: Insights into the maze of states of being
Abstract: Sleep is a coordinated process involving more or less simultaneous changes in sensory, motor, autonomic, hormonal, and cerebral processes. On the other hand, none of the changes occurring wi...
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Roberto Vetrugno,
Pasquale Montagna
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S68-S71
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