Abstract
Tactile stimulation of the foot evoked contralateral parietal spikes in the EEG of young, non-epileptic, subjects. After this initial finding, the authors systemically tested about 8000 patients, aged from 2 months to 15 years. The phenomenon was evoked in 80 cases, of which 60 had never presented epileptic seizures. Slow sleep markedly facilitated this phenomenon; on the contrary paradoxical sleep reduced it. In 20 of the 60 nonepiletic subjects a spontaneous focus of spikes appeared after a variable delay; in some of these cases tonic-clonic seizures developped in the following years.
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