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Ever Had a Seizure in Your Sleep?

February 13, 2021
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According to an article in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, if more than 90 percent of your seizures occur while sleeping, you are said to have sleep seizures.

The article also notes that an estimated 7.5 percent to 45 percent of people who have epilepsy have some form of sleep seizures.

Posted in Epilepsy, Research
Tags: bed wetting, bitten tongue, confusion, falling out of bed, movements, night terrors, nocturnal seizures, Panic Attacks, screaming, sleep seizures, sleep studies

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