TY - JOUR T1 - Sleep and epilepsy: unfortunate bedfellows JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313421 SP - archdischild-2017-313421 AU - Frances Mary Gibbon AU - Elizabeth Maccormac AU - Paul Gringras Y1 - 2018/09/28 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/09/27/archdischild-2017-313421.abstract N2 - The relationship between sleep and seizure disorders is a particularly vicious cycle. Nocturnal seizures can interrupt sleep while a number of factors, including antiepileptics and sleep disorders that cause sleep fragmentation, can worsen seizures. Understanding and managing seizures and related sleep disturbance is therefore an important and treatable intervention target that could potentially improve children’s sleep, but also their learning, mood, behaviour, seizures and parental quality of life. ER -