Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Instability in Children With Epilepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cyclic Alternating Patterns.
Sleep and epilepsy share a bidirectional relationship, with epilepsy disrupting sleep microstructure in ways that remain poorly understood in children. The cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) quantifies non-rapid eye movement sleep instability through cortical arousal fluctuations, but paediatric-specific evidence is scar...