Sort of related, but my epileptic dog has most of his seizures right as he's waking up. Perhaps he's suddenly losing his "protection" as his short waves are disabling.
Interesting. I believe those might be called silence seizures and if I’m not mistaken are prone to happen around the sleep cycles, so before or after one and are found at a fairly high rate in people with a Satb2 mutation, a gene known to be heavily involved in bone growth and cerebral cortex development.
Interesting, I have heard recently of someone who is most likely to have his seizures when he's waking up. I know little about the subject but now I wonder about the mechanisms that make this more likely...
I think there’s more to dig into here. Although it’s fairly well known that sleep (and lack of it) can trigger seizures on waking, there’s not much understanding of why. Recently a big breakthrough in SUDI research (“cot death”/“SIDS”) found low levels of BChE was a marker for unexplained infant deaths. This is significant particularly because the same marker is known to be linked to difficulties waking up from anaesthesia.
There is a very similar syndrome known as SUDEP (or Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy), where often people are found dead, face down in their beds.
It seems to me at least plausible that there are some links between this new discovery, SUDEP, and SUDI/SIDS.