Quality sleep is critical for people living with epilepsy to avoid triggering seizures. Poor sleep can affect seizures, memory, and more.

Epileptic seizures alter sleep by prolonging the stage that's central to memory formation, potentially predisposing the brain to "remember" how to trigger subsequent seizures more easily, a small ...

A European clinical trial found that sulthiame, a drug used in the treatment of epilepsy, reduced breathing interruptions.

Researchers found that the medication sulthiame reduced breathing interruptions and improved oxygen levels overnight in people with moderate to severe sleep apnea. The findings were published recently ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. The study, published in the ...

The study, published in the Journal Of Neuroscience, found that after a seizure, the brain enters a deep sleep state that ...

Jo-Ann Burns is claiming her daughter Nicola wasn't told about Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy.

An evidence-based web-app helped children with epilepsy to fall asleep on average 16.5 minutes earlier. A new UK-wide clinical trial led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience ...

But a new study from the Mayo Clinic suggests that for people with epilepsy, the brain may be too good at its job — mistakenly learning how to have future seizures by treating them like valuable ...

An old epilepsy drug for sleep apnoea has sharply reduced night‑time breathing pauses in a major European trial. Could ...

A woman who experienced her first seizure last year said the condition left her feeling isolated, but her cat’s response provided her unexpected comfort, melting the internet’s hearts. Issy told ...

An evidence-based web-app helped children with epilepsy to fall asleep on average 16.5 minutes earlier. A new UK-wide clinical trial led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience ...