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

African woman sleeping in her bed. Young woman sleeping in her bed in the morning at home. While there has recently been a surge in research regarding the complex relationship between sleep and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

New AAN guidance examines how consumer wearable devices can support neurologic care, including epilepsy monitoring and sleep tracking — while cautioning that many of them are insufficiently validated.

New research from the Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project shows that genetics plays a role in sleep/wake timing of seizures. Researchers studied 1,395 individuals with epilepsy in families containing ...

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

DEAR DR. ROACH: Is there such thing as a walking seizure? The reason I ask is because my husband was out of his Keppra medicine, and he experienced what I would say was sleepwalking ... or maybe a ...