New research is uncovering how sleep quality after traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be the key to preventing seizures and reducing the risk of post-traumatic epilepsy.

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 ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals why sleep can put people with epilepsy at increased risk of sudden death. Both sleep and seizures work together to slow the ...

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 Journal of ...

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LOS ANGELES — Individuals with both uncontrolled epilepsy and sleep apnea are at significantly higher risk for mortality than those with epilepsy alone, according to a new analysis of over 2 million ...

Comorbid sleep disorders among patients with epilepsy are linked to higher SUDEP risk scores and all-cause mortality.

Sleeping patterns and stress hormones could be the key to understanding how and when people with epilepsy are likely to experience seizures, according to a study published in PLoS Computational ...

Sleep could encode epileptic seizures in the brain by repurposing the processes used to solidify memories, potentially making seizures harder to treat or prevent, new research suggests. But the new ...

To understand the effect of sleep seizures, researchers monitored the brain and heart activity of people with epilepsy as they slept. New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals why sleep can put people with epilepsy at increased risk of sudden death. Both sleep and seizures work together to slow the ...