Neurol. praxi. 2025;26(3):225-229 | DOI: 10.36290/neu.2024.050

Sleep disorders in neurological diseases

doc. MUDr. Jitka Bušková, Ph.D.
Oddělení spánkové medicíny, NÚDZ Klecany

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.

Received: August 15, 2024; Revised: August 15, 2024; Accepted: August 16, 2024; Prepublished online: August 16, 2024; Published: July 4, 2025  Show citation

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Bušková J. Sleep disorders in neurological diseases. Neurol. praxi. 2025;26(3):225-229. doi: 10.36290/neu.2024.050.
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