Sleep Med Psychophysiol.  2002 Jun;9(1):14-17.

Epilepsy and Sleep

• Lee IK

Abstract

Epilepsy is a paroxysmal disorder caused by abnormal electrical discharges of the brain. As it is characterized by episodic seizures with intervening normal neurological states, some temporal patterns of seizure attacks can be traced. Sleep and wakefulness patterns are one of several factors influencing seizure accurrence. In this article, physiological and pathological infulences of sleep on the seizure phenomenon were reviewed. Understanding this relationship between sleep and epilepsy might lead to better understrading of sleep and epilepsy themselves, thus leading to better diagnosis and treatment of each disease.

Keyword

Sleep; Epilepsy

MeSH Terms

Brain
Diagnosis
Epilepsy*
Seizures
Wakefulness