Sleepwalking and Sleep Paralysis: Prevalence in Colombian Families With Genetic Generalized Epilepsy.
Diana M Cornejo-SanchezJaime Carrizosa-MoogDagoberto Cabrera-HemerRodrigo Solarte-MilaChristhian Gomez-CastilloRhys ThomasSuzanne M LealWilliam Cornejo-OchoaNicolas Pineda-TrujilloPublished in: Journal of child neurology (2019)
The prevalence of sleepwalking or sleep paralysis is reported for individuals with genetic generalized epilepsy and their relatives. The co-existence of either parasomnia in the genetic generalized epilepsy patients and the co-aggregation within their families let suggest that shared heritability and pathophysiological mechanisms exist between these disorders. We hypothesize that sleepwalking/sleep paralysis and genetic generalized epilepsy could be variable expression of genes in shared pathways.