Difference between revisions of "Small sharp spikes (SSS or BETS)"
From EEGpedia
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
* Incidence of 20% | * Incidence of 20% | ||
* Small sharp spikes are not associated with epilepsy | * Small sharp spikes are not associated with epilepsy | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | ---- | ||
| + | ''''' Small sharp spikes bilateral during non-REM 1 sleep (average)''''' | ||
| + | [[File: SSS bitemporal (average).png|border|1200px|left]] | ||
| + | ---- | ||
Revision as of 13:47, 22 February 2017
Small sharp spikes (SSS) Synonymes: BETS (Benign Epileptiform Transients of Sleep) and benign sporadic sleep spikes
- Occur in light sleep (non-REM 1 and 2 sleep)
- Amplitude of <50 microV and duration of <50 ms
- Usually monophasic, occasionally diphasic
- Occasionally followed by a slow wave, however do not disturb the background
- Located temporal uni- or bilateral
- Incidence of 20%
- Small sharp spikes are not associated with epilepsy
Small sharp spikes bilateral during non-REM 1 sleep (average)
.png)
