Le test de réveil forcé : Une nouvelle méthode d'exploration de la vigilance

The forced awakening test is based on the comparison of event-related potentials during wakefulness and after 3 minutes of sleep in a short afternoon nap and has been proposed to evaluate simultaneously sleep propensity and sleep inertia. The test, performed on control subjects and more than 100 patients complaining of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), has shown that event-related potentials after forced awakening are normal in all EDS associated with psychiatric disorders and abnormal in 75 % of narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia, and in 43% of sleep apnea syndrome.