Assessment of the effects of lacosamide on sleep parameters in healthy subjects

• We evaluated effects of lacosamide on sleep parameters in healthy subjects.
• Lacosamide had no significant effect on objective or subjective sleep parameters.
• There was no clinically relevant change in subject-rated sleep quality reported.

PurposeSeizures and antiepileptic drugs (AED) may disrupt sleep patterns in patients with epilepsy, thus evaluation of lacosamide effects on objective and subjective sleep measures is warranted.MethodsA multicenter, interventional, open-label study (NCT01530386) was conducted in healthy subjects without confounding effects of concomitant AED use, co-morbidities, or disease state to determine whether lacosamide impacts sleep parameters after 22 days of lacosamide exposure. After overnight polysomnography (PSG) to assess baseline parameters, lacosamide was initiated at 100 mg/day (50 mg twice daily) and increased by 100 mg/day weekly to 300 mg/day (the mid-range maintenance dose for adjunctive therapy). The primary variable was change from baseline to post-treatment in wake after sleep onset (WASO). Secondary variables included additional objective sleep measures, subject-reported measures of sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, and tolerability. Change from baseline in WASO was analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test.ResultsA total of 27 subjects received ≥1 dose of lacosamide and 25 subjects completed the study. For WASO, median change from baseline was a 6-min reduction (95% confidence interval: −38, 77.5; p = 0.1074) after lacosamide treatment; this was considered not clinically relevant. No clinically relevant changes were observed in any secondary variables. Thirteen subjects (48%) reported a treatment-emergent adverse event, none of which was severe or led to study discontinuation.ConclusionLacosamide 300 mg/day had no effect on objective or subjective sleep parameters in healthy subjects and was generally well tolerated.