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Review
. 2014 Aug 8;3(3):45-53.
doi: 10.5409/wjcp.v3.i3.45.

Childhood epilepsy and sleep

Mohammed A Al-Biltagi  1
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Review

Childhood epilepsy and sleep

Mohammed A Al-Biltagi. World J Clin Pediatr. .

Abstract

Sleep and epilepsy are two well recognized conditions that interact with each other in a complex bi-directional way. Some types of epilepsies have increased activity during sleep disturbing it; while sleep deprivation aggravates epilepsy due to decreased seizure threshold. Epilepsy can deteriorate the sleep-related disorders and at the same time; the parasomnias can worsen the epilepsy. The secretion of sleep-related hormones can also be affected by the occurrence of seizures and supplementation of epileptic patients with some of these sleep-related hormones may have a beneficial role in controlling epilepsy.

Keywords: Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy; Parasomnias; Sleep; Sleep-related hormones.

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The ratio of the different epilepsy timing.
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