Video-EEG monitoring in adults.

abstract：PURPOSE:This study evaluated topiramate (TPM) antagonism of glutamate receptors activated by kainate. METHODS:The ability of TPM (3-30 microM) to attenuate kainate (300 microM)-activated cobalt (Co2+) flux through nonselective cation channels permeable to Co2+, Mn2+, and Ca2+ into cultured cerebellar granule neurons [...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Skradski S,White HS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to investigate the lifetime prevalence of epileptic seizures in a population with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) and to characterize the seizures and the seizure-triggering factors. A letter was sent to all patients with known AIP in Sweden registered at the National Porphyria Cen...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bylesjö I,Forsgren L,Lithner F,Boman K

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypharmacy is a widely employed treatment strategy in epilepsy, particularly for individuals with poorly controlled seizures. Drug combinations should be carefully considered to minimize the potential for unfavorable interactions. Older-generation antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are well known for their pharmacokinetic i...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sills G,Brodie M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and the potential risk of inducing convulsive or nonconvulsive status epilepticus with the combination of valproate (VPA) and clonazepam (CZP), with or without other anticonvulsant drugs, in 55 patients with intractable epilepsy was evaluated. The patients were treated with VPA and CZP concomitantly for f...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mireles R,Leppik IE

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this prospective incident community-based study was to assess the influence of pre- and perinatal risk factors in children in whom an unprovoked afebrile epileptic seizure later developed. METHODS:From November 1, 1985, until June 30, 1987, 75 children aged 0-15 years with a first unprovoked afebril...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sidenvall R,Heijbel J,Blomquist HK,Nyström L,Forsgren L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic epilepsies comprise a wide variety of partial and generalized syndromes that have in common a known or presumed genetic etiology and the lack of overt abnormalities other than the epilepsy itself. Most of these epilepsies have a benign natural history and/or show a favorable response to antiepileptic drug (...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Perucca E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature dealing with the convulsant effects of the antidepressant drugs of the non-monoamine oxidase inhibitor variety is reviews. It is concluded that most of these drugs do lower the seizure threshold and may precipitate seizures even at normal therapeutic doses. The pathophysiology of antidepressant-induced ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Trimble M

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden unexpected death of an individual with epilepsy can pose a challenge to death investigators, as most deaths are unwitnessed, and the individual is commonly found dead in bed. Anatomic findings (eg, tongue/lip bite) are commonly absent and of varying specificity, thereby limiting the evidence to implicate epilep...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Middleton O,Atherton D,Bundock E,Donner E,Friedman D,Hesdorffer D,Jarrell H,McCrillis A,Mena OJ,Morey M,Thurman D,Tian N,Tomson T,Tseng Z,White S,Wright C,Devinsky O

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The concordance of lateralized EEG postictal polymorphic delta activity (PPDA) to the side of seizure origin in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) has received limited study. Our objective was to study the lateralizing value of PPDA in patients with documented TLE. METHODS:A cohort of consecutive adults with TLE, de...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jan MM,Sadler M,Rahey SR

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:West syndrome consists of infantile spasms, hypsarrhythmia, and developmental arrest. Most patients remain mentally retarded and many develop Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Using homozygosity mapping followed by exome sequencing we identified an ST3GAL3 mutation in three infants with West syndrome. ST3GAL3 encodes a sialylt...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Edvardson S,Baumann AM,Mühlenhoff M,Stephan O,Kuss AW,Shaag A,He L,Zenvirt S,Tanzi R,Gerardy-Schahn R,Elpeleg O

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify and define clinical and behavioral features of patients with adult-onset idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). METHODS:We reviewed the charts of 313 IGE patients at the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center over the past 5 years to identify patients with adult onset (18 years old or older). We exclude...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cutting S,Lauchheimer A,Barr W,Devinsky O

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a potentially preventable cause of epilepsy. Increasing incidence among army personnel and the high incidence among children and young people raise concern. This article presents a review of selected studies dealing with the risks of TBI and the risk of posttraumatic epilepsy in humans....

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Christensen J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine both the efficacy of and compliance with the ketogenic diet in the adolescent population. METHODS:A retrospective study of 45 patients, aged 12-19 years, consecutively enrolled in a ketogenic diet program from 1994 to 2002, was performed. Thirty-seven patients were from The Johns Hopkins Medical I...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mady MA,Kossoff EH,McGregor AL,Wheless JW,Pyzik PL,Freeman JM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal heart rate (FHR) characteristics of fetuses exposed and not exposed to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) were studied. FHR is considered to reflect central nervous system (CNS) integrity. Three intervals during pregnancy were investigated: 20, 32, and 38 weeks. At 32 and 38 weeks, FHR was studied in relation to quiet (...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Swartjes JM,van Geijn HP,Meinardi H,Mantel R

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) on cognitive function and behavior in children are reviewed on the basis of published studies. Individual AEDs have been shown to differ--the deleterious effects of phenytoin generally contrasting with the relatively minimal effects of valproate and carbamazepine. Some of the ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Trimble MR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect od dipropylacetic acid (DPA; Depakine) on the bemegride-induced convulsive threshold was investigated in alert cats. Forty-five min after DPA 200 mg/kg, s.c., no significant effect was obtained; 5 min after the same dose iv., protection from bemegride-induced seizures was pronounced. DPA did not decrease fo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： van Duijn H,Beckmann MK

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic models for complex diseases frequently assume that genetic factors play a greater role in severe forms than in mild forms of disease. This study examined familial aggregation of epilepsy in relation to two measures of severity: duration and remission. The study population comprised 358 offspring born in Roches...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ottman R,Annegers JF,Kurland LT

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the potential pharmacokinetic interactions between topiramate (TPM) and phenytoin (PHT) in patients with epilepsy by studying their pharmacokinetics (PK) after monotherapy and concomitant TPM/PHT treatment. METHODS:Twelve patients with epilepsy stabilized on PHT monotherapy were enrolled in this st...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sachdeo RC,Sachdeo SK,Levy RH,Streeter AJ,Bishop FE,Kunze KL,Mather GG,Roskos LK,Shen DD,Thummel KE,Trager WF,Curtin CR,Doose DR,Gisclon LG,Bialer M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy syndromes occupy an important position in the current nosology of the epilepsies, describing and classifying seizure disorders with shared clinical and EEG features. Increasingly, this schema is being refined as new information becomes available and our understanding of etiology and presentation of each syndr...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Duchowny M,Harvey AS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to examine the impact of clinical variables, particularly age at onset of epilepsy, on intellectual function in a group of children with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS:We reviewed the preoperative neuropsychological test results of 79 children with unilateral TLE who subsequent...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cormack F,Cross JH,Isaacs E,Harkness W,Wright I,Vargha-Khadem F,Baldeweg T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vagus is a mixed nerve carrying somatic and visceral afferents and efferents. The majority of vagal nerve fibers are visceral afferents and have a wide distribution throughout the central nervous system (CNS) either monosynaptically or via the nucleus of the solitary tract. Besides activation of well-defined refle...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rutecki P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Genetic variants in STXBP1, which encodes the conserved exocytosis protein Munc18-1, are associated with a variety of infantile epilepsy syndromes. We aimed to develop an in vivo Caenorhabditis elegans model that could be used to test the pathogenicity of such variants in a cost-effective manner. METHODS:The...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Zhu B,Mak JCH,Morris AP,Marson AG,Barclay JW,Sills GJ,Morgan A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to assess the regional relative interictal and postictal perfusion changes in temporal and parietal lobe epilepsy. METHODS:We investigated interictal and postictal magnet resonance perfusion changes in five patients with temporal lobe epilepsy either with hippocampal sclerosis (n = 3)...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Leonhardt G,de Greiff A,Weber J,Ludwig T,Wiedemayer H,Forsting M,Hufnagel A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important indicator of well-being in patients with epilepsy. When assessing changes in HRQOL over time, some of the changes observed may be due to the patients' change in the internal standards, value, or meaning that they attribute to the HRQOL domain being measu...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sajobi TT,Fiest KM,Wiebe S

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Children with malformations of cortical development represent a significant proportion of pediatric epilepsy surgery candidates. From a cohort of 40 children operated on between 1980 and 1992 with malformation of cortical development, 38 were alive and had data 10 years after surgery. Age at surgery ranged from 6 mont...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hamiwka L,Jayakar P,Resnick T,Morrison G,Ragheb J,Dean P,Dunoyer C,Duchowny M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation between psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) and generalized convulsive epileptic seizures (ES) is important for appropriate triaging in the emergency department (ED). This can be difficult in the ED, as the event is often not witnessed by a medical professional. In the current study, we investigat...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Li Y,Matzka L,Maranda L,Weber D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Diazepam buccal film (DBF) is in development for treatment of patients experiencing bouts of increased seizure activity. We assessed safety, tolerability, and usability of self- or caregiver-administered DBF in the outpatient setting. METHODS:Patients aged 2-65 years needing treatment with a rescue benzodiaz...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Seinfeld S,Gelfand MA,Heller AH,Buan C,Slatko G

更新日期：2020-11-01 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