Can sleep deprivation cause epilepsy?

Seizures: Yes, it can trigger seizures.

Epilepsy: Not cause it, but can trigger attacks in predisposed individuals.

No: Sleep deprivation will not cause epilepsy but can provoke a seizure in epileptics and non-epileptics. I can make anyone seize if i drop their blood sugar low enough or sleep deprive them enough. Epilepsy is recurrent unprovoked seizures. Sleep deprivation can provoke a seizure but not cause epilepsy.