title: Childhood epilepsy and sleep.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Mohammed A Al-Biltagi, Paediatric Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta 11432, Egypt.
authors.forename: Mohammed A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Al-Biltagi
keywords: Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy; Parasomnias; Sleep; Sleep-related hormones