With recent advances in epilepsy research, the availability of more modern techniques (particularly digital sleep and EEG recordings), and the acceptance of this specialty as a significant area for both clinicians and for basic research scientists, this is the appropriate time for a comprehensive textbook. The full impact of the sleep epilepsy field, for both clinicians and basic research scientists, is given in this book. This edition contains up-to-date, important and relevant information that may be incorporated into the clinical daily practice of both epilepsy and sleep disorders.
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Preface. List of Contributors. Section I. Sleep Physiology 1. Historical aspects of sleep and epilepsy (M. Grigg-Damberger, S.J. Damberger). 2. Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators regulating sleep (H.A. Baghdoyan, R. Lydic). 3. Physiological changes in sleep (S. Chokroverty). 4. Electroencephalographic correlates of sleep (S. Sato). 5. Electroencephalographic correlates of epilepsy (C.M. Epstein). 6. Mechanisms of sleep and arousal: relationship to epilepsy (M.N. Shouse). 7. Cellular mechanisms underlying seizure activity during sleep (F. Amzica, M. Steriade). 8. Seizures and circadian rhythms (M. Quigg). Section II. Clinical Relationships Between Sleep and Seizures 9. Epilepsy and the sleep-wake cycle (M.R. Sammaritano, M. Therrien). 10. Effects of sleep and sleep deprivation on interictal epileptiform discharges (M.R. Sammaritano, B.A. Malow). 11. Effects of sleep on seizures (S.T. Herman, T.S. Walczak). 12. Effects of individual seizures on sleep structure (C.W. Bazil). 13. Effect of anticonvulsants on sleep (M.R. Sammaritano, A. Sherwin). 14. Effects of anticonvulsants on the EEG (C.W. Bazil). Section III. Syndromes of Sleep-Related Epilepsy 15. Differential aspects of sleep epilepsies and awakening epilepsies (M. Baldy-Moulinier, A. Crespel). 16. Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (S.F. Berkovic, I.E. Scheffer). 17. Supplementary sensorimotor area epilepsy (D.S. Dinner). 18. Awakening epilepsies and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (P. Wolf, J.J. Schmitt). 19. Encephalopathy with electrical status epilepticus during slow sleep (C.A. Tassinari et al.). 20. Rolandic epilepsy (O. Eeg-Olofsson). 21. Childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (B. Chang, R. Kovacevic-Ristanovic). 22. Nocturnal temporal lobe epilepsy (A. Bernasconi, F. Andermann). 23. The concept of paroxysmal nocturnal dystonia (P. Tinuper, E. Lugaresi). 24. Benign nocturnal alternating hemiplegia of childhood: six patients and long-term follow-up (V. Chaves-Vischer et al.). Section IV. Diagnostic Techniques 25. Video-EEG polysomnography (N. Foldvary, B.A. Malow). 26. Automatic sleep staging and event detection in the study of relationships between sleep and epilepsy (J. Gotman, R. Agarwal). Section V. Sleep Disorders and Epilepsy 27. Differential diagnosis of paroxysmal nocturnal events in adults (B.V. Vaughn). 28. Differential diagnosis of paroxysmal nocturnal events in infants and children (M.S. Wise). 29. Sleep disorders in adults with epilepsy (B.A. Malow, B.V. Vaughn). 30. Relation between epilepsy and sleep during infancy and childhood (P.R. Carney, M.H. Kohrman). 31. Sleep apnea and epilepsy (B. Ehrenberg). Section VI. Sleep and Epilepsy 32. Future directions (C.W. Bazil, B.A. Malow, M.R. Sammaritano). Subject Index.
