RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONSResearchCurrent research in our sleep laboratory consists of studies on anticonvulsant drugs on the structure of sleep, and effects of a sleep agent on sleep in patients with epilepsy. Previous publicationsXu X, Brandenburg NA, McDermott AM, Bazil CW. Sleep Disturbances Reported by Refractory Partial-Onset Epilepsy Patients Receiving Polytherapy. Epilepsia 2006; 47(7):1176-83. Bazil CW, Battista J, Basner RC. Effects of levetiracetam on sleep in normal volunteers. Epilepsy & Behavior 2005; 7(3):539-542. » view pdf Bazil CW, Battista J, Basner RC. Gabapentin improves sleep in the presence of alcohol. J Clin Sleep Med 2005; 1:284-7. » view pdf Bazil CW. Sleep disturbances in epilepsy patients. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2005; 5:297-8. Bazil CW. Nocturnal seizures. Seminars in Neurology 2004;24:293-300. » view pdf Bazil CW. Epilepsy and sleep disturbance. Epilepsy & Behavior 2003;4:S39-S45. » view pdf Bazil CW, Legros B, Kenny E. Sleep structure in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. Epilepsy & Behavior 2003; 4(4):395-398. » view pdf Bazil CW. Effects of Anticonvulsants on Sleep Structure: Are All Drugs Equal? CNS Drugs 2003;17(10)719-728. » view pdf Bazil, CW. Sleep-related epilepsy. (2003) Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 3(2):167-172. » view pdf Legros B, Bazil CW. (2003) Effects of antiepileptic drugs on sleep architecture: A pilot study. Sleep Medicine 4(1):51-55. Bazil CW (2002) Sleep and epilepsy. Seminars in Neurology 22:321-327. Bazil CW, Anderson CT (2001) Sleep structure following status epilepticus. Sleep Medicine 2:447-449. Herman ST, Walczak TS, Bazil CW (2001) Distribution of partial seizures during the sleep-wake cycle: Differences by seizure onset site. Neurology 56: 1453-1458. » view pdf Bazil CW, Short DW, Crispin D, Zheng W (2000) Patients with intractable epilepsy have low melatonin, which increases following seizures. Neurology 55:1746-8. » view pdf Bazil CW (2000) Sleep and Epilepsy. Current Opinion in Neurology 13:171-5. Bazil CW, Castro LHM, Walczak TS (2000) Reduction of rapid eye movement sleep by diurnal and nocturnal seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy. Arch Neurol 57:363-8. |
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