Rune Markhus

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Rune Markhus er spesialist i nevrologi og klinisk nevrofysiologi, akkreditert søvnspesialist og overlege ved Klinisk nevrofysiologisk laboratorium, Spesialsykehuset for epilepsi.

Articles by Rune Markhus

A hundred years of EEG

Karl O. Nakken,
Rune Markhus,
Oliver Henning

24.03.2025: The year 2024 marked the centennial of the first registration of human cerebral activity by the German psychiatrist Hans Berger. He called the method 'electroencephalography', abbreviated as EEG. Today, EEG plays a key role in the assessment of epilepsy, including assessment for epilepsy surgery...

Strange episodes during sleep – epilepsy or parasomnia?

Oliver Henning,
Rune Markhus,
Eva Elisabeth Jansen Dornish,
Konstantin Hrisimirov Kostov,
Fridny Heimisdottir,
Karl O. Nakken

18.03.2024: In some forms of epilepsy, the seizures occur almost exclusively during sleep. This is particularly the case with hypermotor frontal lobe seizures. Clinically it can be difficult to distinguish such seizures from parasomnias and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. This clinical review article aims...