Combined study of the pattern of spontaneous activity of cerebellar Purkinje cells and phenytoin serum levels in the rat.

abstract：PURPOSE:Evidence for a poor psychiatric, social, and vocational adult outcome in childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) suggests long-term unmet mental health, social, and vocational needs. This cross-sectional study examined behavioral/emotional, cognitive, and linguistic comorbidities as well as their correlates in childre...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Caplan R,Siddarth P,Stahl L,Lanphier E,Vona P,Gurbani S,Koh S,Sankar R,Shields WD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Unresolved past stressful events can induce a state of vulnerability to epilepsy and comorbidities. Using an experimental model of stress-induced vulnerability to depression, we tested whether an antioxidant treatment applied after the onset of epileptogenesis was disease modifying and could prevent the occur...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Becker C,Mancic A,Ghestem A,Poillerat V,Claverie D,Bartolomei F,Brouillard F,Benoliel JJ,Bernard C

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) is a novel once-daily antiepileptic drug (AED) approved in Europe since 2009 that was found to be efficacious and well tolerated in a phase III clinical program in adult patients with partial onset seizures previously not controlled with treatment with one to three AEDs, including carbama...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bialer M,Soares-da-Silva P

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether acute exacerbations of cirrhotic liver disease are associated with higher odds of readmission for epilepsy or status epilepticus. METHODS:The New York State Inpatient Database is a statewide dataset containing data on 97% of hospitalizations for New York State. In this retrospective, cas...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gursky JM,Rossi KC,Jetté N,Dhamoon MS

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty therapy-resistant epileptic patients entered a double-blind, randomized, two-period, cross-over trial comparing progabide (19.3-36 mg/kg/day) and placebo as add-on drugs to standard therapy. Each period lasted 6 weeks with a gradual crossover during 4 days. Five patients were dropped because of reasons unrelate...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Martínez-Lage JM,Bossi L,Morales G,Martínez Vila E,Orofiamma B,Viteri C

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification and correction of adverse physiological changes that lead to seizures in children can improve the effectiveness of current therapeutic practices in epilepsy. It is proposed that various circadian rhythms (respiration, hormones, water balance, electrolytes, intracranial pressure, blood pressure), met...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： LeWinn EB

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of surgical strategies are available to deal with intractable epilepsy. These are resective operations, consisting of the removal of a focus or a discrete lesion, gross removal of malfunctioning brain, and functional operations consisting of division of the pathways of propagation or of an epileptic neuronal...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Polkey CE,Binnie CD

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the structure-function relation of the temporal lobe in newly diagnosed West syndrome of unknown cause (uWS). METHODS:Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (three-dimensional [3D] structural MRI and diffusion tensor imaging [DTI]) was analyzed using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and tract-based ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fosi T,Chu C,Chong WK,Clark C,Scott RC,Boyd S,De Haan M,Neville B

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The "adenosine hypothesis of SUDEP" (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) predicts that a seizure-induced adenosine surge combined with impaired metabolic clearance can foster lethal apnea or cardiac arrest. Changes in adenosine receptor density and adenosine kinase (ADK) occur in surgical epilepsy patients. ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Patodia S,Paradiso B,Garcia M,Ellis M,Diehl B,Thom M,Devinsky O

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To clarify the electroclinical manifestation of epileptic seizures and the evolution of epilepsy in patients with peroxisomal diseases. METHODS:Retrospective review of the medical records and EEGs of 14 patients with peroxisomal diseases: seven with Zellweger syndrome (ZS), two with neonatal adrenoleukodystrop...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Takahashi Y,Suzuki Y,Kumazaki K,Tanabe Y,Akaboshi S,Miura K,Shimozawa N,Kondo N,Nishiguchi T,Terada K,Orii T

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old boy developed febrile convulsions at age 2 years, and multiple types of nonfebrile generalized seizures over the ensuing months and years. Gestation, birth, and early development were normal, as were initial EEG and brain imaging studies. By age 5 years, he had developed behavioral difficulties, and the ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Grant AC,Vazquez B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men are different from women, and patients with epilepsy are different in many aspects from healthy control subjects. Quantitative or semiquantitative analysis of neuroimaging data depends on the comparison between either a single patient against a group of healthy or unaffected controls, or comparisons between groups...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Koepp MJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:  Preclinical data have suggested that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may have anticonvulsant properties, and some SSRIs are known to modulate ion channels in vitro. We screened citalopram, fluoxetine, and sertraline for anticonvulsant actions in mouse hippocampal slices, and studied the effect...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Igelström KM,Heyward PM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first part of this essay, the "common wisdom" about Putnam and Merritt's contributions to the treatment of epilepsy was summarized (Rowland, 1982). Based on the history that has been presented here, how true are these "wisdoms"? Putnam and Merritt did devise "a simple and reliable method to test drugs of antico...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Friedlander WJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absence epilepsy is a form of generalized epilepsy commonly seen in children. The neuronal process by which ethosuximide (ETX), a first choice anti-absence drug, prevents absence seizures is still unresolved. Recent clinical findings have indicated that focal cortical regions are involved during absence seizures. Cons...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Polack PO,Charpier S

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Neuropsychological studies suggest frontal lobe dysfunctions in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). In this study we investigated whether an underlying mechanism could be a regional neuronal damage not visible with structural magnetic resonance (MR), but detectable with magnetic resonance spectrosc...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Savic I,Lekvall A,Greitz D,Helms G

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the relationship between seizures and excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT) activity and whether up-regulation of EAAT activity alters epileptogenicity. METHODS:In this study, we exposed rat hippocampal slices to different convulsants before measuring EAAT activity. Rats were exposed to the EAAT ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Claudio OI,Ferchmin P,Velísek L,Sperber EF,Moshé SL,Ortiz JG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) exhibit structural brain damage involving gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM). The mechanisms underlying tissue loss in MTLE are unclear and may be associated with a combination of seizure excitotoxicity and WM vulnerability. The goal of this study was to in...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lee CY,Tabesh A,Benitez A,Helpern JA,Jensen JH,Bonilha L

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pathogenic variants of KCNQ2, which encode a potassium channel subunit, cause either benign (familial) neonatal epilepsy-B(F)NE)-or KCNQ2 encephalopathy (KCNQ2 DEE). We examined the characteristics of KCNQ2 variants. METHODS:KCNQ2 pathogenic variants were collected from in-house data and two large disease da...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Goto A,Ishii A,Shibata M,Ihara Y,Cooper EC,Hirose S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why some patients with seizures are successfully treated with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and others prove medically intractable is not known. Inadequate intraparenchymal drug concentration is a possible mechanism of resistance to AEDs. The multiple drug resistance gene (MDR1) encodes P-glycoprotein, an energy-dependen...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tishler DM,Weinberg KI,Hinton DR,Barbaro N,Annett GM,Raffel C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Absence epilepsies are common, with a major genetic contribution to etiology. Certain environmental factors can influence absence occurrence but a complete understanding of absence precipitation is lacking. Herein we investigate if lowering blood glucose increases spike-wave activity in mouse models with varyin...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Reid CA,Kim TH,Berkovic SF,Petrou S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with sodium valproate (VPA) in association with phenobarbital (PB) is accompanied by a greater systemic hyperammonemia than treatment by VPA alone. The anatomical origins of this difference were studied by injecting a dose of 1,500 mg VPA i.v. into six unmedicated patients and six epileptics chronically trea...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Warter JM,Marescaux C,Brandt C,Rumbach L,Micheletti G,Chabrier G,Imler M,Kurtz D

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the ability of functional MRI (fMRI) to predict postoperative language decline compared to direct cortical stimulation (DCS) in epilepsy surgery patients. METHODS:In this prospective case series, 17 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy had intracranial monitoring and resection from 2012 to 2016 wi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rolinski R,Austermuehle A,Wiggs E,Agrawal S,Sepeta LN,Gaillard WD,Zaghloul KA,Inati SK,Theodore WH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the epilepsy and neurology communities have position papers on a number of topics pertaining to epilepsy diagnosis and management, no current paper exists for the rationale and appropriate indications for epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) evaluation. General neurologists, hospital administrators, and insurers al...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Shih JJ,Fountain NB,Herman ST,Bagic A,Lado F,Arnold S,Zupanc ML,Riker E,Labiner DM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the antiepileptic and neuroprotective properties of topiramate (TPM) alone and with coadministration of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-receptor antagonist budipine in a rat model of refractory status epilepticus. METHODS:Male Sprague-Dawley rats had electrodes implanted into the perforant path and...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fisher A,Wang X,Cock HR,Thom M,Patsalos PN,Walker MC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We used the paired-pulse inhibition paradigm to determine whether the cell loss in the hilus of the dentate gyrus of female rats after kainic acid (KA)-induced status epilepticus (SE) is associated with functional changes in the dentate gyrus. Additionally, we determined whether the lost function could be prese...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Velísek L,Velísková J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of epilepsy (KAPE) among the public play a major role in determining the extent to which people with epilepsy can be integrated into their society. KAPE SURVEYS IN ASIA:Surveys conducted among Chinese in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong demonstrated simila...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lim SH,Pan A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare individuals suffer epileptic seizures when they view certain images, particularly stripes. Contrast-threshold functions (the ability to see faint stripes of various widths) were determined for two pattern-sensitive brothers, and the epileptogenicity of various patterns was assessed for one of them. Sine wave grat...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Soso MJ,Lettich E,Belgum JH

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To systematically review the methodology and use of neuropsychological tests in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in patients with epilepsy. METHODS:Trial reports were found by searching Medline 1966-1996 and searching through journals by hand. Inclusion and exclusion criteria w...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cochrane HC,Marson AG,Baker GA,Chadwick DW

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00