Sleep and epilepsy: unfortunate bedfellows.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 30266875.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313421 and PMC identifier 6362435.
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Abstract
The relationship between sleep and seizure disorders is a particularly vicious cycle. Nocturnal seizures can interrupt sleep while a number of factors, including antiepileptics and sleep disorders that cause sleep fragmentation, can worsen seizures. Understanding and managing seizures and related sleep disturbance is therefore an important and treatable intervention target that could potentially improve children's sleep, but also their learning, mood, behaviour, seizures and parental quality of life.
Medical subject headings
- Epilepsy
- Sleep Deprivation
- Sleep Wake Disorders