Sleep Epilepsies and Cognitive Impairment

Download or read online book entitled Sleep Epilepsies and Cognitive Impairment written by Peter Halasz and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 15 January 2018 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get best books that you want by click Get Book Button and Read as many books as you like. Book Excerpt : Sleep, Epilepsies, and Cognitive Impairment discusses the brain mechanisms behind epilepsy by applying the results of contemporary neuroimaging and signal analysis. This book helps the reader view epilepsy from new perspectives, emphasizing the role of epilepsy-activation by NREM sleep in the cognitive impairment of certain major epilepsies. The authors describe the impact of activations of interictal and ictal events during NREM sleep with special emphasis on the cognitive impairment consequences. Epileptic disorders are approached by the network concept, especially in relation to the derailment of certain physiological systems transformed to epileptic networks. The book looks at epilepsy with a fresh eye that is armed by contemporary neuroscience, trying to enlighten epilepsy syndromes in new aspects. The aim is to interpret the major epileptic syndromes as system epilepsies involving brain physiological networks. The authors endeavor to reveal the links between brain plasticity, epilepsy and NREM sleep. Neuroscientists, clinical epileptologists and neurologists interested in brain processes underlying brain plasticity, sleep and epilepsy will find this book thought provoking. Provides contemporary knowledge about the neurophysiological and functional anatomical background of major epilepsies Treats major epilepsies as system epileptic networks Reveals the interrelationship of sleep and epilepsy from new viewpoints