Dreaming in patients with epilepsy: a cross‐sectional cohort study

• DOI: 10.1111/jsr.14464
• Publication Date: 2025-02-01T05:24:26Z
• Authors: Maïlis Charpentie...; Aurélien de la Ch...; Maxime Linard; Nathalie André‐Ob...; Sébastien Boulogne; Hélène Catenoix; Julien Jung; Sylvain Rheims; Katharina Schiller; Birgit Frauscher; Perrine Ruby; Laure Peter‐Derex
• Keywords: Cross-sectional study

Epilepsy impacts cognition during wakefulness. As epileptic activity is present and even augmented sleep, epilepsy could also influence sleep-related cognitive processes. However, whether modulates experiences like dreaming remains poorly known. Here, we prospectively investigated the characteristics determinants of in patients with epilepsy. Consecutive adult no major deficit were recruited an outpatient clinic. They completed a questionnaire about their dreams, sleep over past year. Medical data on gathered from medical file. A generalised linear model was used to explore dream recall frequency (DRF). We included 300 patients, mean (standard deviation [SD]) age 40.4 (13.4) years 51.3% female; 28.6% had more than one seizure/month, 34.7% already seizures sleep. Patients recalled dreams average 1.6 (1.5) days/week 11% or nightmare/week. Younger age, higher number nocturnal awakenings, lower predicted DRF. In focal (65.3%), localisation focus parieto-occipital area negatively associated Regarding content, 34.0% reported having dreamt Dreams (p = 0.034) nightmare 0.004). Our results show that share several DRF (age, role area) healthy subjects. addition, epilepsy-related factors (seizure frequency, localisation) impact Investigating can provide information