Sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, and insomnia in patient with epilepsy: .

Objectives: To measure the burden of insomnia and daytime sleepiness (DTS) and their effects on sleep quality, and the risk factors of poor quality of sleep.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 218 epilepsy patients. We administered well-validated and previously translated questionnaires to assess sleep quality, insomnia, and DTS using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Insomnia Severity Index, and Epworth Sleepiness Scale, respectively.

-related refractory status epilepticus responding to vagal nerve stimulation: Case report and literature review.

Epilepsy, one of the most prevalent chronic neurological diseases, can cause severe morbidity as well as mortality. A mutation of the gene results in a rare genetic disease that causes epilepsy as its core presentation. Both neurological and non-neurological manifestations have been reported in patients with gene mutation.