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Can sleep deprivation cause epilepsy?
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Seizures: Yes, it can trigger seizures.
Answered 3/14/2019
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Epilepsy: Not cause it, but can trigger attacks in predisposed individuals.
Answered 11/30/2012
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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.
Answered 6/21/2018
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