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Relationship of Epileptic Seizures to Sleep Stage and Sleep Depth

Daniela Minecan, Alamelu Natarajan, Mary L. Marzec, Beth A. Malow

SLEEP · 2002 · 171 citations · 20 references

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Abstract

Both seizures and IEDs are facilitated by NREM sleep. While deeper stages of NREM sleep activate IEDs, lighter stages of NREM sleep promote seizures, at least for single seizures occurring in 1 night.

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