I have a daughter with cerebral palsey, and non verbal. she is 15 years old. For the past 6 -9 months, she has been experiencing some type of episodes at night that wakes her out of her sleep. She is very nervous and jittery. I thought they were seizures but her nuerologist ran test and a MRi and it shows no sign of seizure activity. We even thought it was acid reflux, did a test for that and it came back fine. I always look for body language with my daughter to try to pin point the problem. She rubs in her chest and stomach alot, rubs her neck and throut alot. She even have a bloated belly at times. Could this be night time gas. We only see symptoms of this at night. When it is really bad it throws her into some type of jerking attack. This will last for about 5 minutes.