Influence of Sleep and Sleep Deprivation on Ictal and Interictal Epileptiform Activity

Table 1

Results of some interesting studies that relate seizures location and most frequently time of day.

Author	Year	Number of patients	Number of seizures	Focus	Peak hour
Pavlova	2004	26	90	Temporal	15–19 h
				Extratemporal	19–23 h
Durazzo	2008	131	669	Occipital	16–19 h
				Frontal and Parietal	04–07 h
				Temporal	16–19 h and 07–10 h
Hofstra	2009	33	450	Temporal	11–17 h
				Parietal	17–23 h
				Frontal	23–05 h