“…There is an acknowledged relationship between state of vigilance (SOV), also known as sleep-wake state, and seizure onset in various human (Bazil and Walczak, 1997;Crespel et al, 2000;for review, see Dinner, 2002;Minecan et al, 2002;Malow, 2007;Kothare and Zarowki, 2011;Sinha, 2011) and experimental (Quigg et al, 2000;Shouse et al, 2000;Colom et al, 2006; for review, see Matos et al, 2011;Sinha, 2011) epilepsies. Additionally, epilepsy, in turn, alters sleep patterns (Cepeda et al, 1982;Ayala-Guerro et al, 2002;Matos et al, 2010; for review, see Matos et al, 2011).…”