The natural history of untreated epilepsy in a rural community in Africa.

abstract：:In order to evaluate immediate recall and learning in epileptic patients, four tests were chosen: Wechsler's memory span for digits, graphic reproduction of geometric figures from the Wechsler Memory Scale, learning of a list of words from the Rey Memory Scale, and recognition of these words. These tests were performe...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Loiseau P,Strube E,Broustet D,Battellochi S,Gomeni C,Morselli PL

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A pilot study of the safety, tolerability, dose range and potential efficacy of ganaxolone for the treatment of refractory epilepsy in pediatric and adolescent subjects. METHODS:We report the results of a nonrandomized, nonblinded, open-label, dose-escalation trial of ganaxolone in pediatric subjects (5-15 yea...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Pieribone VA,Tsai J,Soufflet C,Rey E,Shaw K,Giller E,Dulac O

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep and epilepsy are interrelated. Understanding the relationship between epilepsy and sleep is important for optimizing management of the epilepsy patient in several ways. First, sleep modulates the expression of epileptic seizures and interictal epileptiform discharges. Second, epilepsy and its treatment influence...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Malow BA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminophylline (50 and 100 mg/kg) and CGS 8216 (20 and 40 mg/kg) decreased the anticonvulsant potency of diazepam (5 and 10 mg/kg) against electroshock-induced seizures. It should be emphasized that aminophylline moderately affected the protective action of the benzodiazepine at a dose of 5 mg/kg, whereas it was equipo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Czuczwar SJ,Turski WA,Ikonomidou C,Turski L

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies have found that affected individuals who believe the cause of their disorder is genetic may react in various ways, including optimism for improved treatments and pessimism due to perceived permanence of the condition. This study assessed the psychosocial impact of genetic attribution among people with...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Garofalo DC,Sorge ST,Hesdorffer DC,Winawer MR,Phelan JC,Chung WK,Ottman R

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The presence of specific neurocognitive deficits may help explain why school achievement and psychosocial functioning are often worse in children with epilepsy than would be predicted by their global intellectual functioning. This study compared children with two forms of epilepsy: localization-related epilepsy...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kernan CL,Asarnow R,Siddarth P,Gurbani S,Lanphier EK,Sankar R,Caplan R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is an under-recognized cause of altered mental status. There are hardly any reported data on NCSE in developing countries. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Prospectively 210 consecutive patients with altered mental status admitted to neurological intensive care unit (NICU) of a tert...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Narayanan JT,Murthy JM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Epilepsy is a major clinical and social issue in Africa. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence, incidence, mortality, and therapeutic outcome in rural Djidja in Benin. METHODS:This was a two-phase study with a cross-sectional phase and 18 months of follow-up. In the first phase, information was o...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Houinato D,Yemadje LP,Glitho G,Adjien C,Avode G,Druet-Cabanac M,Preux PM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the prevalence of epilepsy and seizures in the Navajo. METHODS:We studied 226,496 Navajo residing in the Navajo Reservation who had at least one medical encounter between October 1, 1998 and September 30, 2002. We ascertained and confirmed cases in two phases. First, we identified patients with In...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Parko K,Thurman DJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 4 Tesla depicts details of the internal structure of the hippocampus not visible at 1.5 Tesla, and so allows for in vivo parcellation of different hippocampal subfields. The aim of this study was to test if distinct subfield atrophy patterns can be detected in...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mueller SG,Laxer KD,Barakos J,Cheong I,Garcia P,Weiner MW

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate whether atypical language dominance in epilepsy patients is related to localization and type of lesions. METHODS:Four hundred and forty-five epilepsy patients received bilateral Wada testing. Language was classified as left (L), right (R), bilateral-dependent (BD, speech arrest after left and ri...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Möddel G,Lineweaver T,Schuele SU,Reinholz J,Loddenkemper T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circling seizures (CS) have been described in association with focal lesions as well as with generalized EEG discharges. We report 1 patient with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) who developed CS. There were no focal findings on clinical examination, EEG, or imaging studies. We propose that CS in this patient may rep...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lancman ME,Asconapé JJ,Golimstok A

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We wished to determine the effects of seizure type, age at onset, and family history of epilepsy on risk of spontaneous abortion in the pregnancies of adults with idiopathic/cryptogenic epilepsy. METHODS:We examined pregnancy outcomes in 812 adults with idiopathic/cryptogenic epilepsy who had ever had or fathe...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Schupf N,Ottman R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine if the clinical characteristics of nonepileptic seizures (NES) are different in children younger than 13 years age as compared to adolescents. METHODS:Retrospective review of medical records and video-EEGs (VEEG) of all patients with NES confirmed on VEEG monitoring was performed. RESULTS:Sixty-e...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Patel H,Scott E,Dunn D,Garg B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine if seizure frequency differs between anovulatory and ovulatory cycles. METHODS:The data came from the 3-month baseline phase of an investigation of progesterone therapy for intractable focal onset seizures. Of 462 women who enrolled, 281 completed the 3-month baseline phase and 92 had both anovula...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Herzog AG,Fowler KM,Sperling MR,Liporace JD,Kalayjian LA,Heck CN,Krauss GL,Dworetzky BA,Pennell PB,Progesterone Trial Study Group.

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular field potential recordings were made in CA3 subfield of hippocampal slices from rats aged 11-22 days. In these experiments, we analyzed the effects induced by modifying [Mg2+] in the medium (1 or 2 mM) on (a) 4-aminopyridine (4-AP, 50 microM)-induced synchronous events (including ictal- and interictal-li...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fueta Y,Siniscalchi A,Tancredi V,Avoli M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) level in lumbar CSF of 31 children with epilepsy was not significantly different from that of 41 age-matched controls. However, when the epileptic children were subdivided into untreated patients and patients treated with antiepileptic drugs, the medication-free subgroup had a s...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Löscher W,Siemes H

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We studied temporal changes of brain sodium and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in a temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) rat model using kainic acid (KA). METHODS:In situ three-dimensional 23Na magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and proton diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) were used. KA at a dose of 10 mg/kg body w...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Wang Y,Majors A,Najm I,Xue M,Comair Y,Modic M,Ng TC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of rescue benzodiazepines in the management of seizures is widely accepted in emergency pediatric practice. They can, however, cause severe side effects, such as respiratory depression. We describe five patients who presented with severe respiratory depression following benzodiazepine administration for seizur...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lacroix L,Fluss J,Gervaix A,Korff CM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medically intractable tonic and atonic seizures may be responsive to either vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) or corpus callosum section. VNS has been shown to be effective and is associated with very low morbidity. Callosotomy is a more ambitious procedure, with a higher risk of complications but greater likelihood of se...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rosenfeld WE,Roberts DW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 4-year-old girl with profound global developmental delay and refractory epilepsy characterized by multiple seizure types (partial complex with secondary generalization, tonic, myoclonic, and atypical absence). Her seizure semiology did not fit within a specific epileptic syndrome. Despite a broad metaboli...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Venkateswaran S,Myers KA,Smith AC,Beaulieu CL,Schwartzentruber JA,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Majewski J,Bulman D,Boycott KM,Dyment DA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of epileptology at a molecular level, where gene products are identified by gene mapping, will soon be possible for a growing number of epilepsies. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is the first of such epilepsies to be mapped to a chromosome, namely chromosome 6p21.3. Family studies of 68 JME probands fr...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Delgado-Escueta AV,Greenberg DA,Treiman L,Liu A,Sparkes RS,Barbetti A,Park MS,Terasaki PI

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe the behavioral and EEG topographic correlates of absences with 3-Hz generalized spike-waves and partitioned impairment of consciousness. METHODS:Two adult women had so-called "phantom" absences, characterized by brief and mild impairments of consciousness that were previously inconspicuous to both ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Vuilleumier P,Assal F,Blanke O,Jallon P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depression is a common comorbidity of epilepsy, and its timely identification in persons with epilepsy is essential. The use of screening tools to detect depression is common in epilepsy, but some scales in current use have not been validated using a gold standard in this population. The present study aims to...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fiest KM,Patten SB,Wiebe S,Bulloch AG,Maxwell CJ,Jetté N

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We analyzed a large group of patients investigated for suspected seizures to test whether gender or side are important factors in the origins of hippocampal sclerosis (HS). METHODS:We studied 996 consecutive patients (48% men, 52% women) by using standard hippocampal T2-relaxometry methods. RESULTS:HS was ass...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Briellmann RS,Jackson GD,Mitchell LA,Fitt GJ,Kim SE,Berkovic SF

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical course and long-term seizure prognosis were studied in 155 patients with complex-partial seizures during a follow-up of 10.1 +/- 1 (SD) years. In 79% of the patients generalized tonic-clonic seizures were recorded, mostly within the first 3 years of epilepsy but occurring as late as 20 years after the onset o...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Schmidt D,Tsai JJ,Janz D

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) detects signal changes in brain that accompany regional changes in neuronal activity. In normal human brain, FMRI shows changes in signal in the postcentral gyrus or superior temporal gyrus that correlate with voluntary motor activity or language processing, respectively. T...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Morris GL 3rd,Mueller WM,Yetkin FZ,Haughton VM,Hammeke TA,Swanson S,Rao SM,Jesmanowicz A,Estkowski LD,Bandettini PA

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Presurgical language mapping in dominant hemisphere epilepsy to evaluate the risk of postoperative deficit is particularly difficult in children. Extraoperative invasive cortical stimulation can show some areas critical to language, but not all of them, due to scarce sampling, poor cooperation, cortical immatur...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： de Ribaupierre S,Fohlen M,Bulteau C,Dorfmüller G,Delalande O,Dulac O,Chiron C,Hertz-Pannier L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To validate and translate the English version of the Neurologic Depression Disorders Inventory in Epilepsy (NDDI-E) into Spanish as a screening instrument for major depressive episodes (MDE) for patients with epilepsy from Argentina and Uruguay. METHODS:One hundred fifty-five consecutive outpatients with ep...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Thomson AE,Calle A,Fontela ME,Yepez L,Muñoz Giacomelli F,Jáuregui A,Racosta JM,Kanner AM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess seizure and cognitive outcomes and their predictors in children (<16 years at surgery) and adults undergoing temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery in eight Italian centers. METHODS:This is a retrospective multicenter study. We performed a descriptive analysis and subsequently carried out multivariab...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Barba C,Cossu M,Guerrini R,Di Gennaro G,Villani F,De Palma L,Grisotto L,Consales A,Battaglia D,Zamponi N,d'Orio P,Revay M,Rizzi M,Casciato S,Esposito V,Quarato PP,Di Giacomo R,Didato G,Pastori C,Pavia GC,Pellacani

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00