The Relationship Between Sleep and Epilepsy

Sleep–wake pattern, chronotype and seizures in patients with epilepsy

“…Seizure occurrence is an important factor in sleep and worse sleep quality is associated with increasing seizure severity in PWE (Kotagal and Yardi, 2008). Although PSQI scores were not different between PWE and HC and even between GE and FE, we note that seizure frequency was related to daytime sleepiness scores (ESS scores) in the present study.…”

Temporal relationship between awakening and seizure onset in nocturnal partial seizures

“…These rates were higher (37-61%) in patients with seizures originating from the frontal lobe, in frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) [5,6]. All these nocturnal seizures tend to occur during stage 2 of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep [7,8].…”

EEG after sleep deprivation is a sensitive tool in the first diagnosis of idiopathic generalized but not focal epilepsy

“…As the association between sleep itself and epileptiform changes in EEG is well established (Kotagal and Yardi, 2008), some authors came to the conclusion that the higher probability of recording sleep in SD-EEGs invariably leads to a higher likelihood of recording IEAs (Peraita-Adrados et al, 2001;Degen et al, 1987). Others assume that there is an increased frequency of IEAs after sleep deprivation in general -even if no sleep is recorded in SD-EEG (Roupakiotis et al, 2000;Gandelman-Marton and Theitler, 2011).…”