Open AccessChildhood epilepsy and sleep
Author(s) -
Mohammed AlBiltagi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
world journal of clinical pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2219-2808
DOI - 10.5409/wjcp.v3.i3.45
Subject(s) - epilepsy , sleep (system call) , sleep deprivation , medicine , hormone , sleep disorder , psychology , neuroscience , insomnia , psychiatry , circadian rhythm , computer science , operating system
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.