Date: September 15, 2025
Time: 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm
Track: Traditional Special Interest Group (SIG)
This session will feature invited presentations on sleep and epilepsy, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD), and Circadian Medicine. Sleep can affect seizures, and sleep deprivation is a common trigger of seizures. Some epilepsy syndromes are highly related to sleep. RBD is considered a prodromal stage of evolving synuclein-specific neurodegenerative disorders and understanding its progression biomarkers is critical for the therapeutic development of disease-modifying treatments. Circadian Medicine has emerged as a novel field that aims to employ biological clock and circadian system as a diagnostic and therapeutic target.
At the conclusion of the session, attendees should be able to:
This presentation will discuss observations from the North American Prodromal Synucleinopathy (NAPS) Consortium, a multi-center study of individuals with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder.
This presentation will review a role for the relationship between sleep, circadian rhythms, and epilepsy in risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
This presentation will review what is currently known about Circadian Medicine, along with the implications for clinical practice and research.