Agrypnia excitata
Evidence-based neurology checklist on agrypnia excitata: Clinical features This is autonomic and motor excitation during sleep There is loss of deep sleep with preservation of light sleep The subject carries out stereotypic automatic gestures (oneiric stupor) Pathophysiology Classical causes Other…
Clinical features
- This is autonomic and motor excitation during sleep
- There is loss of deep sleep with preservation of light sleep
- The subject carries out stereotypic automatic gestures (oneiric stupor)
Pathophysiology
Classical causes
Other causes
Differential diagnosis
Polysomnography: features
References
- Provini F. Agrypnia excitata. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2013; 13:341.
- Provini F, Cortelli P, Montagna P, Gambetti P, Lugaresi E. Fatal insomnia and agrypnia excitata: sleep and the limbic system. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2008; 164:692-700.
- Lugaresi E, Provini F, Cortelli P. Agrypnia excitata. Sleep Med 2011; 12(Suppl 2):S3-S10.
- Rodriguez-Porcel F, Lowder L, Rademakers R, et al. Fulminant corticobasal degeneration: agrypnia excitata in corticobasal syndrome. Neurology 2016; 86:1164-1166.
- Calandra-Buonaura G, Provini F, Guaraldi P, et al. Oculomasticatory myorhythmia and agrypnia excitata guide the diagnosis of Whipple disease. Sleep Med 2013; 14:1428-1430.
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