TY - JOUR T1 - Sleeping in fits and starts: a practical guide to distinguishing nocturnal epilepsy from sleep disorders JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 391 LP - 398 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2014-000890 VL - 14 IS - 6 AU - Christopher P Derry Y1 - 2014/12/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/14/6/391.abstract N2 - Accurately diagnosing sleep-related events, and particularly distinguishing nocturnal frontal lobe seizures from other sleep disorders such as parasomnias, can be challenging. This article reviews the differential diagnosis of paroxysmal events from sleep, epileptic and non-epileptic, considers important diagnostic points in the history, and evaluates the role of investigations in this setting. ER -