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List of works by Birgit Frauscher

A Prospective Video-Polysomnographic Analysis of Movements during Physiological Sleep in 100 Healthy Sleepers

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A case of Lyme neuroborreliosis with bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy

scientific article published on November 25, 2010

A descriptive analysis of neck myoclonus during routine polysomnography

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A prospective questionnaire study in 100 healthy sleepers: non-bothersome forms of recognizable sleep disorders are still present

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A single-question screen for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a multicenter validation study

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Association of daytime sleepiness with COMT polymorphism in patients with parkinson disease: a pilot study

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Atlas of the normal intracranial electroencephalogram: neurophysiological awake activity in different cortical areas

scientific article published in March 2018

Auditory startle reaction is disinhibited in idiopathic restless legs syndrome

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Authors response to "Deficits of attention and cognition in narcoleptic patients--is it hypocretin dependent?".

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

Autonomic symptoms in idiopathic REM behavior disorder: a multicentre case-control study

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Blood cis-eQTL analysis fails to identify novel association signals among sub-threshold candidates from genome-wide association studies in restless legs syndrome

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C9orf72 repeat expansions in rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Can observers link dream content to behaviours in rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder? A cross-sectional experimental pilot study

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Cerebral vasoreactivity decreases overnight in severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a study of cerebral hemodynamics

scientific article published on 5 February 2009

Common variants in P2RY11 are associated with narcolepsy

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Comorbidity and medication in REM sleep behavior disorder: a multicenter case-control study

scientific article published on 19 February 2014

Correction: Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Restless Legs Syndrome Susceptibility Loci on 2p14 and 16q12.1

Corrigendum to "Sparse asynchronous cortical generators can produce measurable scalp EEG signals" [Neuroimage 138 (2016) 123-133].

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Corrigendum to “Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: devising controlled active treatment studies for symptomatic and neuroprotective therapy—a consensus statement from the International Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Study Gro

scholarly article published in Sleep Medicine

DQB1 locus alone explains most of the risk and protection in narcolepsy with cataplexy in Europe

scientific article published on January 2014

Daytime sleepiness and the COMT val158met polymorphism in patients with Parkinson disease

scientific article published in January 2006

Daytime sleepiness is not increased in mild to moderate multiple sclerosis: a pupillographic study

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Decision making and executive functions in REM sleep behavior disorder

scientific article published in May 2012

Defining muscle activities for assessment of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: from a qualitative to a quantitative diagnostic level

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Delayed diagnosis, range of severity, and multiple sleep comorbidities: a clinical and polysomnographic analysis of 100 patients of the innsbruck narcolepsy cohort

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Detectability of Fast Ripples (>250 Hz) on the Scalp EEG: A Proof-of-Principle Study with Subdermal Electrodes

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Diagnostic value of the REM sleep behavior disorder screening questionnaire in Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on 13 November 2014

Different seizure-onset patterns in mesiotemporal lobe epilepsy have a distinct interictal signature

scientific article published on 9 May 2017

Differentiating epileptic from non-epileptic high frequency intracerebral EEG signals with measures of wavelet entropy

scientific article published on 3 October 2016

Dilution of candidates: the case of iron-related genes in restless legs syndrome

scientific article published on 29 August 2012

Disturbance of rapid eye movement sleep in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2.

scientific article published in October 2006

Do periodic arm movements during sleep exist in healthy subjects? A polysomnographic study.

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Dreaming furiously? A sleep laboratory study on the dream content of people with Parkinson's disease and with or without rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

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EEG desynchronization during phasic REM sleep suppresses interictal epileptic activity in humans

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Enteric nervous system α-synuclein immunoreactivity in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder

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Environmental risk factors for REM sleep behavior disorder: a multicenter case-control study

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Erratum to: Autonomic symptoms in idiopathic REM behavior disorder: a multicentre case-control study

scientific article published in January 2015

Erratum: Common variants in P2RY11 are associated with narcolepsy

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Erratum: Narcolepsy is strongly associated with the T-cell receptor alpha locus

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Executive functions, information sampling, and decision making in narcolepsy with cataplexy

scientific article published in July 2011

Facilitation of epileptic activity during sleep is mediated by high amplitude slow waves

scientific article published on 19 March 2015

Family history of idiopathic REM behavior disorder: a multicenter case-control study

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Family-based association study of the restless legs syndrome loci 2 and 3 in a European population

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Five-year follow-up of substantia nigra echogenicity in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder

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Fragmentary myoclonus in sleep revisited: a polysomnographic study in 62 patients

scientific article published on April 2011

GBA mutations are associated with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder

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Gender-Specific Differences in Access to Polysomnography and Prevalence of Sleep Disorders

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Genome-wide association study identifies novel restless legs syndrome susceptibility loci on 2p14 and 16q12.1

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HLA-DPB1 and HLA Class I Confer Risk of and Protection from Narcolepsy.

scientific article published in May 2015

ImmunoChip study implicates antigen presentation to T cells in narcolepsy

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Increased daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease: a questionnaire survey

scientific article published in March 2003

Interaction with slow waves during sleep improves discrimination of physiologic and pathologic high-frequency oscillations (80-500 Hz).

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

Interictal Hippocampal Spiking Influences the Occurrence of Hippocampal Sleep Spindles

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Investigation of autonomic function in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder

scientific article published on 8 November 2011

Is a diagnosis of ancillary restless legs syndrome reproducible over time? Experience with the Wayne Hening telephone diagnostic interview

scientific article published on March 19, 2013

Is there a polysomnographic signature of augmentation in restless legs syndrome?

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Localization of the Epileptogenic Zone Using High Frequency Oscillations

Long-Term Follow-up Investigation of Isolated Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Without Atonia Without Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder: A Pilot Study

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Measurement of endogenous acetone and isoprene in exhaled breath during sleep

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Midbrain hyperechogenicity in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder

scientific article published in October 2009

Mode of vagus nerve stimulation differentially affects sleep related breathing in patients with epilepsy

scientific article published on 10 January 2009

Motor disturbances during non-REM and REM sleep in narcolepsy-cataplexy: a video-polysomnographic analysis

scientific article published on 25 January 2011

Motor events during healthy sleep: a quantitative polysomnographic study

scientific article published on April 2014

Narcolepsy and pregnancy: a retrospective European evaluation of 249 pregnancies

scientific article published on 8 April 2013

Narcolepsy is strongly associated with the T-cell receptor alpha locus

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Narcolepsy risk loci are enriched in immune cells and suggest autoimmune modulation of the T cell receptor repertoire

Narcolepsy-cataplexy: deficient prepulse inhibition of blink reflex suggests pedunculopontine involvement

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Normative EMG values during REM sleep for the diagnosis of REM sleep behavior disorder

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Not Only Sleepwalking But NREM Parasomnia Irrespective of the Type Is Associated with HLA DQB1*05:01.

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

Olfactory dysfunction predicts early transition to a Lewy body disease in idiopathic RBD.

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

On “polysomnography reveals unexpectedly high rates of organic sleep disorders in patients with prediagnosed primary insomnia” (Sleep Breath 2011 doi 10.1007/s11325-011-0608-8).

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PLM detection by actigraphy compared to polysomnography: a validation and comparison of two actigraphs

scientific article published on 24 July 2008

PTPRD (protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type delta) is associated with restless legs syndrome

scientific article published on 27 July 2008

Pain perception in narcolepsy with cataplexy patients

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

Parkinson's Disease Genetic Loci in Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder.

scientific article published on May 2015

Parkinson's disease sleep scale--validation of the revised version PDSS-2.

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Periodic leg movements during sleep and periodic limb movement disorder in patients presenting with unexplained insomnia

scientific article published on 23 December 2008

Phase-Amplitude Coupling Is Elevated in Deep Sleep and in the Onset Zone of Focal Epileptic Seizures

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Physiological and pathological high-frequency oscillations have distinct sleep-homeostatic properties

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Prevalence and Determinants of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder in the General Population

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome in a Georgian Primary Healthcare Setting: A Pilot Study

scientific article published on August 24, 2012

Probable RBD and association with neurodegenerative disease markers: A population-based study

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Progressive development of augmentation during long-term treatment with levodopa in restless legs syndrome: results of a prospective multi-center study

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Quantification of electromyographic activity during REM sleep in multiple muscles in REM sleep behavior disorder.

scientific article published on May 2008

Quantitative EEG of Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep: A Marker of Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

scientific article published on 30 August 2015

Quantitative assessment of isolated rapid eye movement (REM) sleep without atonia without clinical REM sleep behavior disorder: clinical and research implications

scientific article published on 13 April 2014

REM sleep behavior disorder in 703 sleep-disorder patients: the importance of eliciting a comprehensive sleep history

scientific article published in February 2010

Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: devising controlled active treatment studies for symptomatic and neuroprotective therapy--a consensus statement from the International Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Study Group.

scientific article published on 22 July 2013

Relationships between interictal epileptic spikes and ripples in surface EEG.

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Replication of restless legs syndrome loci in three European populations

scientific article published on 10 March 2009

Restless legs syndrome (Willis-Ekbom disease) and growing pains: are they the same thing? A side-by-side comparison of the diagnostic criteria for both and recommendations for future research

scientific article published on 26 September 2013

Restless legs syndrome and motor activity during sleep in spinocerebellar ataxia type 6.

scientific article published on 23 August 2006

Restless legs syndrome in Friedreich ataxia: a polysomnographic study

scientific article published on 13 December 2010

Restless legs syndrome in Parkinson's disease

scientific article published in October 2009

Restless legs syndrome: a community-based study of prevalence, severity, and risk factors

scientific article published in June 2005

Review of diagnostic instruments for the restless legs syndrome/Willis-Ekbom Disease (RLS/WED): critique and recommendations

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Review of quality of life instruments for the restless legs syndrome/Willis-Ekbom Disease (RLS/WED): critique and recommendations

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Ripples in scalp EEGs of children: co-occurrence with sleep-specific transients and occurrence across sleep stages

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Risk factors for neurodegeneration in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a multicenter study

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Scalp spindles are associated with widespread intracranial activity with unexpectedly low synchrony

scientific article published on 23 October 2014

Sharply contoured theta waves are the human correlate of ponto-geniculo-occipital waves in the primary visual cortex

scientific article published on 27 April 2018

Sleep and Respiration in 100 Healthy Caucasian Sleepers--A Polysomnographic Study According to American Academy of Sleep Medicine Standards

scientific article published on June 2015

Sleep disorders and circadian rhythm in epilepsy revisited: a prospective controlled study

scientific article published on 24 December 2014

Sleep influences the intracerebral EEG pattern of focal cortical dysplasia

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Sparse asynchronous cortical generators can produce measurable scalp EEG signals

scientific article published in June 2016

Subjective deficits of attention, cognition and depression in patients with narcolepsy

scientific article published on 6 November 2014

Suggestive evidence for linkage for restless legs syndrome on chromosome 19p13.

scientific article published on 10 January 2008

Targeted resequencing and systematic in vivo functional testing identifies rare variants in MEIS1 as significant contributors to restless legs syndrome

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The relation between abnormal behaviors and REM sleep microstructure in patients with REM sleep behavior disorder

scientific article published on 24 March 2008

The role of the melanoma gene MC1R in Parkinson disease and REM sleep behavior disorder

scientific article published on 06 April 2016

The severity range of restless legs syndrome (RLS) and augmentation in a prospective patient cohort: association with ferritin levels

scientific article published on 5 February 2009

Transient restless legs syndrome after spinal anesthesia: a prospective study

scientific article published in December 2002

Usefulness of the SINBAR electromyographic montage to detect the motor and vocal manifestations occurring in REM sleep behavior disorder

scientific article published on 12 February 2011

Validation of an integrated software for the detection of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

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Validation of the Augmentation Severity Rating Scale (ASRS): a multicentric, prospective study with levodopa on restless legs syndrome

scientific article published on 31 May 2007

Validation of the Innsbruck REM sleep behavior disorder inventory

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Video analysis of motor events in REM sleep behavior disorder

scientific article published in July 2007

Voxel-based morphometry in narcolepsy

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White and gray matter abnormalities in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a diffusion-tensor imaging and voxel-based morphometry study

scientific article published on 28 December 2010

White and gray matter abnormalities in narcolepsy with cataplexy

scientific article published on March 2012

World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) 2016 standards for recording and scoring leg movements in polysomnograms developed by a joint task force from the International and the European Restless Legs Syndrome Study Groups (IRLSSG and EURLSSG).

scientific article published on 7 November 2016