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, putting special emphasis on the cognitive impairment consequences. Epileptic disorders are approached by the network concept, especially in relation...