The effect of levetiracetam monotherapy on subjective sleep quality and objective sleep parameters in patients with epilepsy: Compared with the effect of carbamazepine-CR monotherapy

Seizure

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 336-339

  Cho, Yong Won ^a   Kim, Do Hyung ^a   Motamedi, Gholam K ^b  

^a Dongsan Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbamazepine; Levetiracetam; Partial epilepsy; Polysomnography; Sleep

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NATIONAL HOSPITAL SEIZURE SEVERITY SCALE; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; REM SLEEP; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SLEEP; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP TIME; SUBJECTIVE SLEEP QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIRACETAM; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954419077     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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