title: [Epilepsy and sleep].
abstract: Two hundreds epileptic patients with nocturnal seizures were studied. The study included evaluation of anamnesis, clinical and neurological examination, routine EEG and/or video-EEG-monitoring, MRI of the brain. The period of observation was 6 months - 10 years (on average 3.5 years). Epilepsy started with nocturnal seizures in 48% cases, in 30.5% of patients all seizures persisted during sleep. In 25% patients, nocturnal seizures were different from seizures in awakening. In 18.5% cases, seizures were randomly dispersed in the sleep-wake cycle. Different types of nocturnal nonepileptic seizures were noted in 8.5% cases. The relationship between sleep and epilepsy as well as different types of parasomnias that mimicked epileptic seizures were described and analyzed.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Kotov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020447:Parasomnias / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult