An Overview of NFLE

Abstract: Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is distinguished by seizures with composite, often bizarre, fierce behavior arising only or mainly during sleep. These strange seizures and their happening during sleep are often followed by normal electroencephalogram tracings and neurological findings, making it hard to distinguish nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy seizures from other non-epileptic nocturnal paroxysmal consequences, namely parasomnias. Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy was depicted for the first time in 1981, but, as its epileptic origin was contentious, the condition was named nocturnal paroxysmal dystonia. Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy is the most difficult syndrome in the sleep related disturbances .This paper restrains an overview of Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy, which is a sleeping disorder and the prediction of Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy through electroencephalogram in which electrical activity of brain is recorded. Nocturnal frontal lobe can be treated by Anti-seizure drugs.

Index Term: EEG, NFLE (Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy), Parasomnias.