Neurológia pre prax 3/2025
Sleep disorders in neurological diseases
Sleep plays a significant role in neurology. There is a very close relationship between sleep quality or duration and individual neurological diseases. Poor quality sleep adversely affects the course of a number of neurological diseases, such as cerebrovascular, autoimmune, and neuromuscular ones, and may increase the rates of epileptic or migrainous attacks. Sleep apnoea is also an independent risk factor for the development of stroke. Sleep disorders may precede Alzheimer’s disease or represent a prodromal stage of other neurodegenerative diseases. Interventions to improve the quality of sleep and treatment of specific sleep disorders can play an important role in preventing neurological diseases as well as often improve their course.
Keywords: sleep disorders, neurological diseases, sleep apnoea, insomnia, hypersomnia, parasomnia, circadian rhythm disorders