The Relationship Between Sleep and Epilepsy in Frontal and Temporal Lobe Epilepsies: Practical and Physiopathologic Considerations

Abstract

Sleep recording may be useful for diagnosis of FLE, and monitoring after sleep deprivation for that of TLE. We speculate that sleep-related seizures in FLE may depend on interaction between frontal lobe areas with the thalamus cortical synchronization system and the acetylcholine regulatory system of waking.