[Sleep and the epilepsies].
Interrelationship between sleep and epilepsy presents in the best way the delicate konjuction of physiologic and pathologic mechanisms underlying both of the states. In the II century it was Galen who pointed to the detrimental effect of sleep deprivation on the frequency of epileptic attacks. This empiric formulation is important even today in the counceling of patients with epilepsy. The research of the sleep process generated better understanding of the basic mechanisms of epilepsies. Sleep deprivation worsens the control of epileptic attacks which in turn destroy sleep structure and impede the daily functioning of the epileptic patients.
Sokić
Dragoslav
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D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*