1Department of Neurology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
2Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi.
*Address for correspondence: Dr Manjari Tripathi, Associate Professor NIH Fellow (UCLA), Department of Neurology, Room No 705, Neurosciences Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, India, 110029. Tel: 26594494/26588248(O), FAX: 26588248/26588166
The relationship of epilepsy and sleep is widely known but the causative mechanism and its implications in diagnosis and management is still a matter of curiosity and research. The effect of epilepsy in disturbing normal sleep architecture and the effect of pre morbid sleep disturbances in worsening epilepsy show the close relationship between them. This review discusses how each one influences the other. Finally the epileptic syndromes which are typically described with sleep are discussed.
epilepsy, sleep
