Nocturnal seizures usually occur during sleep transition or during non-REM (NREM) stage 2 sleep. They can also occur when a patient is transitioning into slow wave sleep.There are various types ...

Biting your tongue is incredibly painful, but if you've been chomping down on it in your sleep, you could be dealing with a very serious health condition.

After ruling out seizure mimics and seizures caused by an acute trigger, ... (95% CI 1.09-5.44), while patients with nocturnal seizure exhibited increased risk of 2.1 ...

There may be several causes, including nocturnal seizures, drug toxicity, poor sleep hygiene, and comorbid sleep disorders like sleep apnea. Over the last 15 to 20 years, the North American ...

In addition, the frequency of nocturnal convulsive seizures was higher among patients who died by SUDEP. The total SUDEP incidence was 3.53 per 1000 patient-years, ...

According to a recent study, between 7 and 17 percent of all epilepsy-related deaths are due to a complication known as Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). Although SUDEP isn't well ...

Nocturnal seizures occur predominantly in the frontal and temporal lobes. Vaughn proceeded to show instances of nocturnal seizures. Although the videos of patients experiencing seizures did not ...

Researchers now report that such video monitoring can help detect seizures at night, but the costs are high. Following a sudden death at a residential care unit, ...

A total of 43% of children without nocturnal seizures had sleep concerns. Children with Dup15 syndrome were most likely to have sleep concerns (84%).