Monitoring patients with severe epilepsy in residential care facilities during the night was associated with a much lower rate of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP), a new study found. "Our ...

‘A vicious cycle’ is the way investigators describe the bidirectional relationship between sleep problems and epilepsy in a recent review article in Archives of Disease in Childhood. 1 "Epilepsy is ...

Sleep disorders are common in patients with epilepsy; approximately 70% of patients with epilepsy experience problems with sleep. In his presentation, Dr Erik St. Louis discussed the impact of sleep ...

New guidelines on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) recommend ways to reduce SUDEP risk and advise neurologists on how to counsel patients and families. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures ...

Jo-Ann Burns says Nicola was a daughter and a best friend A woman whose daughter died from a condition linked to epilepsy has said the family feels "robbed" and "heartbroken". Nicola Burns was 41 ...

In an animal study, researchers found that valproate, a common epilepsy drug, possessed hypnotic and antiepileptic properties during sleep, suggesting that the drug could help improve sleep quality ...

Researchers are only beginning to understand the implications of disrupted sleep in people with epilepsy. Recent findings suggest that seizure-interrupted sleep could impede memory formation, impair ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In models accounting for demographics, hypertension, stroke and more, hypoxemia and sleep apnea were linked to ...

DENVER (CBS4) - When Anna Smith was in 7th grade she developed nocturnal epilepsy. "I was having grand mal seizures while I was sleeping, sometimes multiple at night, and it just wreaked havoc on my ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – A five-year old girl with a rare form of epilepsy is now living virtually seizure-free thanks to an unusual treatment. After exhausting all other options, doctors at the Florida ...