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Animal models of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy are not as easy to produce as other animal models of human epilepsy. This is in part due to the main feature of these seizures – they occur during sleep, so are not readily observable. They are of course, complex partial seizures, so have many features of those originating from temporal lobe structures. One reason the classification of “temporal lobe epilepsy” has fallen from widespread use is that these seizures can originate from foci adjacent to, but removed from the temporal cortex.
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McCandless, D.W. (2012). Nocturnal Epilepsy Animal Models. In: Epilepsy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0361-6_16
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