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Epilepsy and Sleep: Close Connections and Reciprocal Influences

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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Epilepsy

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Abstract

Epilepsy and epileptic seizures affect every aspect of a patient’s cognitive, social, and emotional well-being. Also sleep disorders have an adverse impact on daily living for both patients and their caregivers. This chapter is devoted to the relationship between epilepsy and sleep and its disorders. The effects of epilepsy on sleep architecture and the quality of sleep are reviewed discussing how sleep may affect epilepsy and the role of antiepileptic therapy on sleep structure. Evidence on the relation between epilepsy and sleep disorders is summarized with a brief discussion highlighting the differences between these disturbances. This chapter ends with an outline of the evaluation and treatment of epileptic patients with a sleep disorder.

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We thank the IRCCS Sleep Laboratory. We thank Mrs. Elena Zoni for graphic production and Anne Collins for editing the manuscript.

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    Paolo Tinuper MD, Francesca Bisulli MD, PhD & Federica Provini MD, PhD

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Tinuper, P., Bisulli, F., Provini, F. (2016). Epilepsy and Sleep: Close Connections and Reciprocal Influences. In: Mula, M. (eds) Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Epilepsy. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Neurological Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22159-5_8

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