Focal Epilepsy Impacts Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Microstructure.

Katharina SchillerNicolás von EllenriederTamir AvigdorCharbel El KosseifiChifaou AbdallahErica MinatoJean GotmanBirgit Frauscher

Published in: Sleep (2022)

Patients with focal epilepsy and in particular extratemporal lobe epilepsy show a global reduction of STW activity in REM sleep. This may suggest that epilepsy impacts cortically generated sleep oscillations even in REM sleep when epileptic activity is low.

Keyphrases

sleep quality
physical activity
temporal lobe epilepsy
depressive symptoms
multiple sclerosis