The effects of transient functional depression of the thalamus on spindles and on bilateral synchronous epileptic discharges of feline generalized penicillin epilepsy.

abstract：:5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) and homovanillic acid (HVA) were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) obtained from febrile children subdivided according to the presence or absence of convulsions. Lumbar puncture was made either early (mean time 2 h) or late...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Giroud M,Dumas R,Dauvergne M,D'Athis P,Rochette L,Beley A,Bralet J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a disease of recurrent seizures that can be associated with a wide variety of acquired and developmental brain lesions. Current medications for patients with epilepsy can suppress seizures; they do not cure or modify the underlying disease process. On the other hand, surgical removal of focal brain regions...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mittal S,Shah AK,Barkmeier DT,Loeb JA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 10 seizure-related thermal injuries severe enough to require hospitalization in patients with epilepsy. Eight of the ten incidents were with patients who had had seizures with impaired consciousness two or more times a month. This suggests that seizure frequency is a risk factor and implies the importance of...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Spitz MC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptic seizures and pseudoseizures in temporal lobe epilepsies were studied from the viewpoint of the hierarchy of consciousness. Twenty-two patients with temporal lobe epilepsies (TLE) who showed true amnesia or impairment of consciousness developing from the dreamy state, even though their actions and movement co...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Oana Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a better understanding of mechanisms of seizures and long-term epileptogenesis using neurocysticercosis. METHODS:A workshop was held bringing together experts in epilepsy and epileptogenesis and neurocysticercosis. RESULTS:Human neurocysticercosis and parallel animal models offer a unique opportu...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Nash TE,Mahanty S,Loeb JA,Theodore WH,Friedman A,Sander JW,Singh G,Cavalheiro E,Del Brutto OH,Takayanagui OM,Fleury A,Verastegui M,Preux PM,Montano S,Pretell EJ,White AC Jr,Gonzales AE,Gilman RH,Garcia HH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the study of a 30-month-old girl with refractory myoclonic epilepsy associated with mental retardation, growth delay, peculiar facial appearance, and minor physical anomalies. Extensive genetic studies were performed, including an array-based comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) that showed...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Veredice C,Bianco F,Contaldo I,Orteschi D,Stefanini MC,Battaglia D,Lettori D,Guzzetta F,Zollino M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The research literature is consistent in reporting somewhat less familial aggregation in partial than in generalized epilepsy. However, relatives of patients with partial seizures do appear to have higher seizure risks than relatives of controls, suggesting that genetic factors are important in at least some partial e...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ottman R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the cellular mechanisms of cobalt-induced epileptiform discharges in mouse hippocampal slices. METHODS:Hippocampal slices were prepared from adult mice and briefly exposed to a CoCl(2)-containing external solution. Population and single cell activities were examined via extracellular and whole-cell ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： He J,Hsiang HL,Wu C,Mylvagnanam S,Carlen PL,Zhang L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) should affect the management of virtually every patient with proven or suspected epilepsy by (a) underlining the need to make all reasonable efforts to render each patient seizure-free; (b) emphasizing the importance of minimizing avoidable seizures; (c) b...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fish DR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the SCN1A subunit of the sodium channel is a cause of genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS(+) ) in multiplex families and accounts for 70-80% of Dravet syndrome (DS). DS cases without SCN1A mutation inherited have predicted SCN9A susceptibility variants, which may contribute to complex inheri...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mulley JC,Hodgson B,McMahon JM,Iona X,Bellows S,Mullen SA,Farrell K,Mackay M,Sadleir L,Bleasel A,Gill D,Webster R,Wirrell EC,Harbord M,Sisodiya S,Andermann E,Kivity S,Berkovic SF,Scheffer IE,Dibbens LM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the clinical significance of bisynchronous spike-wave complexes which appear in EEGs of some patients with focal spikes in one or both temporal lobes. Few features distinguished patients with bisynchronous spike-waves from those with only focal temporal spikes: a higher incidence of patients with more than...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sadler RM,Blume WT

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ideal antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are designed to stop seizures with limited central nervous system (CNS) side effects. However, CNS-related treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) often occur in patients receiving AEDs. Topiramate (TPM) is an AED proven to be safe and effective as adjunctive treatment for epilepsy p...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tatum WO 4th,French JA,Faught E,Morris GL 3rd,Liporace J,Kanner A,Goff SL,Winters L,Fix A,PADS Investigators. Post-marketing antiepileptic drug survey.

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is characterized by chest pain, dyspnea, electrocardiographic changes resembling an acute coronary syndrome, and transient wall-motion abnormalities without identifiable coronary culprit lesion explaining the wall-motion abnormality. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy occurs frequently after emotional o...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Stöllberger C,Wegner C,Finsterer J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the usefulness of an early postictal EEG in neurologically normal children with complex febrile seizures. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective chart review of all neurologically normal children who were hospitalized over a period of 2.5 years after complex febrile seizures, and had an EEG up to 1 wee...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Maytal J,Steele R,Eviatar L,Novak G

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1990, the NIH Consensus Conference Panel on epilepsy surgery called for the development and use of reliable and valid health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) measures in epilepsy surgery studies. A HRQOL measure for epilepsy surgery patients has been developed and evaluated. The procedure, which could also be used t...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Vickrey BG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little evidence to guide the choice of intravenous anesthetic agent to treat refractory status epilepticus but midazolam, propofol, and barbiturates are widely used. It is impractical to use inhalational anesthetic agents in most circumstances and there is little experience with non-GABA-ergic agents such as ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Smith M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To address genetic predisposition to febrile convulsions (FCs) and epilepsy as an etiologic background of severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (SMEI). METHODS:Familial antecedents of epilepsy and FCs were analyzed in four groups of patients with SMEI (65 cases), FCs (57 cases), childhood absences (67 cases), a...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Benlounis A,Nabbout R,Feingold J,Parmeggiani A,Guerrini R,Kaminska A,Dulac O

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Audiogenic seizure-prone mice (DBA/2J) were exposed to a broad band noise source. A reproducible response consisting of wild run, clonus, and tonic stages resulted in all mice. Layers 1 and pyramidal from the parietal cortex and the molecular and Purkinje cell-rich layers from the cerebellar vermis were separately ana...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： McCandless DW,Schwartzenburg FC Jr

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We studied cerebral perfusion patterns in the various subtypes of TLE, as determined by pathology and good outcome after temporal lobectomy (as confirmation of temporal origin). METHODS:We studied clinical features and ictal technetium 99m hexamethyl-propyleneamineoxime (99mTc-HM-PAO) single-photon emission-co...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ho SS,Berkovic SF,McKay WJ,Kalnins RM,Bladin PF

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Status epilepticus can lead to impaired renal function, which has been attributed to complications of myoglobinuria. We confirmed changes in renal function in the absence of myoglobinuria by measuring renal hemodynamics, fluid and electrolyte excretions, and plasma levels of renin and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Perrone BL,Vari RC,Kreisman NR

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinamide is a ligand of the benzodiazepine receptor and has been reported to have anticonvulsant activity. In addition, our previous clinical experience has raised the possibility that it may also potentiate the action of barbiturates. Therefore, we have examined the anticonvulsant activity and neurotoxicity of ni...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bourgeois BF,Dodson WE,Ferrendelli JA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Because the capacity of intracarotid amobarbital (Wada) memory assessment to predict seizure-onset laterality in children has not been thoroughly investigated, three comprehensive epilepsy surgery centers pooled their data and examined Wada memory asymmetries to predict side of seizure onset in children being c...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lee GP,Park YD,Hempel A,Westerveld M,Loring DW

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Phenylcyclohexylamine (PCA) and its analogues 1-phenylcyclopentylamine (PPA) and 1-(3-fluorophenyl)cyclohexylamine (3-F-PCA) are potent anticonvulsants in the mouse maximal electroshock (MES) seizure test. Unlike the structurally related dissociative anesthetic phencyclidine (PCP), however, which produces motor toxi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Blake PA,Yamaguchi S,Thurkauf A,Rogawski MA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Corpus callosotomy is an effective palliative treatment for drug-resistant Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS). Laser interstitial thermal therapy has been increasingly used in the treatment of epilepsy. Here, we assess the safety and effectiveness of minimally invasive stereotactic laser anterior corpus callosotom...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tao JX,Satzer D,Issa NP,Collins J,Wu S,Rose S,Henry J,Santos de Lima F,Nordli D,Warnke PC

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We used a model of self-staining status epilepticus (SSSE), induced by brief intermittent stimulation of the perforant path in unanesthetized rats, to study the mechanism of initiation and of maintenance of SSSE and the role of neuropeptides in those processes. METHODS:The perforant path was stimulated intermi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Wasterlain CG,Mazarati AM,Naylor D,Niquet J,Liu H,Suchomelova L,Baldwin R,Katsumori H,Shirasaka Y,Shin D,Sankar R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures, epilepsy, and alcohol are complexly interrelated. Although it is commonly perceived that patients with epilepsy experience problems with seizure control if they use alcohol, this is not confirmed by the few experimental studies that have tested the hypothesis. The last 30 years have emphasized the role of wi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hauser WA,Ng SK,Brust JC

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Nuclear receptors and cytochrome P450 (CYP) regulate hepatic metabolism of several drugs. Nuclear receptors are expressed at the neurovascular unit of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. We studied whether glucocorticoid receptor (GR) silencing or inhibition in human epileptic brain endothelial cells (EPI-...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ghosh C,Hossain M,Mishra S,Khan S,Gonzalez-Martinez J,Marchi N,Janigro D,Bingaman W,Najm I

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a technique for automatic detection of epileptic spikes in electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. We used a nonlinear modeling method that enables us to detect rapidly and accurately epileptic behavior in the EEG signal. Our approach is illustrated by an application to interictal activity from a patient wit...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Diambra L

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic causes of seizures are numerous: alcohol and other substances of abuse, drugs, and industrial and household products. However, in the absence of a clearly suggestive history and/or associated symptoms and signs, identification of the toxic origin of new-onset seizures may be extremely difficult. We report here t...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Denays R,Kumba C,Lison D,De Bels D

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the risks of fetal malformation during pregnancy associated with antiepileptic drug (AED) polytherapy and monotherapy. METHODS:Statistical analysis of malformation rate and antiepileptic drug exposure data from the Australian Register of Antiepileptic Drugs in Pregnancy, and from the literature. RE...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Vajda FJ,Hitchcock AA,Graham J,O'Brien TJ,Lander CM,Eadie MJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00