title: Primary sleep disorders in people with epilepsy: clinical questions and answers.
abstract: The questions facing clinicians with patients with sleep disorder and epilepsy are addressed in this article. Both adult and child epilepsy are discussed in the context of the most typical questions a clinician would have, such as "Are parasomnias more common in people with epilepsy?", "Is sleep architecture abnormal in children with epilepsy", along with outcomes of numerous questionnaire-based, case-based, and double-blind placebo studies on such aspects as sleep duration, daytime sleepiness, anxiety and fears, limb movement, nocturnal seizures, agitation, behavioral disorders, and learning disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, MSC10 5620, One University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA. Electronic address: mgriggd@salud.unm.edu.
authors.forename: Madeleine M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Grigg-Damberger
authors.affiliation: Section of Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic, S51, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Foldvary-Schaefer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000379:methods; D015995:Prevalence; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Insomnia and epilepsy; Sleep apnea and epilepsy; Sleep disorders and epilepsy; Sleepwalking and frontal lobe epilepsy