Insomnia and sleep deprivation in patients with epilepsy: issues about the pathophysiological interaction between them
Rev. bras. neurol; 57 (4), 2021
There is a known relationship between seizures and sleep deprivation that increases epileptiform abnormalities and slow waves expressed in the EEG, but chronic insomnia, greater in patients with epilepsy (PWEs) than in healthy control, supposedly has a different mechanism linked to a hyperarousability st...
Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/fisiopatología, Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/epidemiología, Privación de Sueño, Epilepsia/diagnóstico, Epilepsia/complicaciones, Prevalencia, Factores de Riesgo, Convulsiones/etiología, Trastornos del Inicio y del Mantenimiento del Sueño/etiología, Trastornos Mentales, Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia