Detecting epileptic spikes.

abstract：:Steady-state plasma antiepileptic drug (AED) concentrations were measured at intervals throughout pregnancy and during the postnatal period in 105 women who underwent 134 pregnancies. Phenytoin (PHT) dosage had to be increased in 85% of pregnancies in which the drug was received, carbamazepine (CBZ) dosage in 70%, and...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lander CM,Eadie MJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent clinical trials indicate that cannabidiol (CBD) may reduce seizure frequency in pediatric patients with certain forms of treatment-resistant epilepsy. Many of these patients experience significant impairments in quality of life (QOL) in physical, mental, and social dimensions of health. In this study, we measur...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rosenberg EC,Louik J,Conway E,Devinsky O,Friedman D

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:The mechanism(s) for sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP) remain(s) unknown, but seizure spread to brainstem areas serving autonomic and respiratory function is critical. In a rat model, we established a mechanism for SUDEP that involves seizure-induced laryngospasm and obstructive apnea lasting until respiratory arrest. ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Irizarry R,Sukato D,Kollmar R,Schild S,Silverman J,Sundaram K,Stephenson S,Stewart M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Glutamate-gated N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) are instrumental to brain development and functioning. Defects in the GRIN2A gene, encoding the GluN2A subunit of NMDARs, cause slow-wave sleep (SWS)-related disorders of the epilepsy-aphasia spectrum (EAS). The as-yet poorly understood developmental seq...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Salmi M,Del Gallo F,Minlebaev M,Zakharov A,Pauly V,Perron P,Pons-Bennaceur A,Corby-Pellegrino S,Aniksztejn L,Lenck-Santini PP,Epsztein J,Khazipov R,Burnashev N,Bertini G,Szepetowski P

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Seizures develop in 80% of patients with anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis, and these represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Anti-NMDAR antibodies have been linked to memory loss in encephalitis; however, their role in seizures has not been established. We determined whether...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Taraschenko O,Fox HS,Pittock SJ,Zekeridou A,Gafurova M,Eldridge E,Liu J,Dravid SM,Dingledine R

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since it was originally described nearly 70 years ago, insular epilepsy has been increasingly recognized and may explain failures after apparently well-planned operations. We review the history of awareness of the phenomenon, techniques for its assessment, and its surgical management. Insular epilepsy can mimic featur...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Laoprasert P,Ojemann JG,Handler MH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with the inflammatory process related to the basic mechanisms that lead to seizure susceptibility and brain damage. Platelet-activating factor (PAF), a potent, short-lived phospholipid mediator of inflammation, participates in physiologic signaling in the brain. However, aft...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Musto AE,Samii M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study prospectively the evolution of visual attention in children with West syndrome to evaluate its development before the onset of spasms, its possible deterioration as a consequence of epileptic disorders, and its outcome at the age of 2 years, and the possible relation between the impairment of visual at...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Guzzetta F,Frisone MF,Ricci D,Randò T,Guzzetta A

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective parallel longitudinal cohort study comparing surgical and medical treatment for epilepsy. The surgical group contained 201 patients treated with resective surgery for epilepsy in Norway since the first operation in 1949 until January 1988. The 185 control group patients treated medically o...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Guldvog B,Løyning Y,Hauglie-Hanssen E,Flood S,Bjørnaes H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folic acid deficient diet reduces the duration and severity of intravenous megimide seizures in the rat after 6 months of diet. Plasma and serum folate levels are strongly reduced after that period. The difference between Lactobacillus casei and Streptococcus faecalis activity in brain show a slight, but not significa...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hommes OR,ten Berge EJ,Jansen MJ,Kok JC

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have an increased risk of developing seizures or epilepsy. Little is known about the role of risk factors and about the risk of developing seizures/epilepsy in patients with vascular dementia (VD). The aim of this study was to assess incidence rates (IRs) of seizures/epile...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Imfeld P,Bodmer M,Schuerch M,Jick SS,Meier CR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first description of epileptic encephalopathies dates back to Dr. West who, in 1857, described the syndrome that took his name. In addition to West syndrome, in the last century other epileptic syndromes entered into the chapter of epileptic encephalopathies. Henry Gastaut has the virtue of having created the mode...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Capovilla G,Wolf P,Beccaria F,Avanzini G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We analyzed sequential changes in the localization of EEG foci along with age to identify a specific EEG pattern, and the relation between the clinical manifestations and the EEG pattern in patients with Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS). METHODS:The subjects were 76 children, who had been followed up >2 years wit...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ohtsu M,Oguni H,Hayashi K,Funatsuka M,Imai K,Osawa M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We sought to characterize and compare the histopathologic and clinical changes elicited by subdural and depth electrodes in subjects undergoing epilepsy surgery evaluation. METHODS:A retrospective review of clinical records, imaging and histopathologic studies of epilepsy surgery cases requiring subdural strip...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Stephan CL,Kepes JJ,SantaCruz K,Wilkinson SB,Fegley B,Osorio I

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:[3H]Nimodipine and high-affinity [125I]omega-conotoxin GVIA (CgTX) binding were investigated in membranes from rat cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and hippocampus after electrically and chemically induced seizures. Animals were decapitated 30 min after a single electroconvulsive shock (ECS) or lidocaine-induced seizure a...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gleiter CH,Cain CJ,Weiss SR,Post RM,Marangos PJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:  Models of temporal lobe epilepsy are commonly utilized to study focal epileptogenesis and ictogenesis. The criteria that define animal models representative of human mesial temporal lobe may vary in different laboratories. We describe herein a focal epilepsy model of mesial temporal (hippocampal) origin that ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Carriero G,Arcieri S,Cattalini A,Corsi L,Gnatkovsky V,de Curtis M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the inhibitory effect of anticonvulsants (AEDs) on carnitine transport by the human placental carnitine transporter. METHODS:Uptake of radiolabeled carnitine by human placental brush-border membrane vesicles was measured in the absence and presence of tiagabine (TGB), vigabatrin (VGB), gabapentin (G...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Wu SP,Shyu MK,Liou HH,Gau CS,Lin CJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was designed to quantify the relation between expressions of NMDA receptor (NMDAR) subunits (1 and 2A/B) and the epileptogenicity in human focal cortical dysplasia. METHODS:Immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation were used to quantify these receptor subunits in tissue resected from EEG-verified epile...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mikuni N,Babb TL,Ying Z,Najm I,Nishiyama K,Wylie C,Yacubova K,Okamoto T,Bingaman W

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical dysplasia (CD, also known as malformations of cortical development) are the pathological substrates in a large percentage of patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy who may be amenable to surgical treatment. Therefore, research on the mechanisms of dysplastic lesion formation and epileptogenicity is of param...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Najm IM,Tilelli CQ,Oghlakian R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ictal and interictal epileptic activity was recorded for the first time by multichannel magnetoencephalography (MEG) in three patients with partial epilepsy. Pre- and intra-operative localization of the epileptogenic region was compared. The interictal epileptic activity was localized at the same region of the tempora...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Stefan H,Schneider S,Feistel H,Pawlik G,Schüler P,Abraham-Fuchs K,Schlegel T,Neubauer U,Huk WJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Upper extremity automatisms are considered to be an ipsilateral seizure lateralizing sign in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Herein we describe different types of contralateral upper extremity automatisms (CUEAs). METHODS:One hundred ninety-three video-(electroencephalography) EEG recordings of 59 patients were ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kelemen A,Fogarasi A,Borbély C,Szucs A,Fabó D,Jakus R,Rásonyi G,Halász P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate changes in health care resource utilization following the initiation of perampanel for the treatment of epilepsy in the United States. METHODS:Health care claims from Symphony Health's Integrated Dataverse database between December 2012 and November 2015 were analyze...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Faught E,Laliberté F,Wang Z,Barghout V,Haider B,Lejeune D,Germain G,Choi J,Wagh A,Duh MS

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was the isobolographic evaluation of the interactions between the novel antiepileptic drug (AED) gabapentin (GBP) and a number of other AEDs against electroconvulsion-induced convulsions in mice. METHODS:Electroconvulsions were produced by means of an alternating current (ear-clip e...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Borowicz KK,Swiader M,Luszczki J,Czuczwar SJ

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe epileptic condition characterized by multiple seizure types including tonic seizures, slow spike-and-wave discharges on electroencephalography (EEG), and cognitive impairment. LGS can occur in apparently healthy subjects or in patients with preexisting brain damage. The...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ferlazzo E,Adjien CK,Guerrini R,Calarese T,Crespel A,Elia M,Striano P,Gelisse P,Bramanti P,di Bella P,Genton P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire survey was conducted in Japan to investigate the causes and prevalence of death related to Dravet syndrome. The questionnaire was delivered to 246 hospitals at which physicians were treating childhood epilepsy to gain information about the total number of patients with Dravet syndrome and the prevalenc...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sakauchi M,Oguni H,Kato I,Osawa M,Hirose S,Kaneko S,Takahashi Y,Takayama R,Fujiwara T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), an important research and clinical tool, depends on relatively greater transient increases in (regional cerebral blood flow) rCBF than cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen during neural activity. We investigated whether reduced rest...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Appel S,Duke ES,Martinez AR,Khan OI,Dustin IM,Reeves-Tyer P,Berl MB,Sato S,Gaillard WD,Theodore WH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) was injected into rats (30 or 35 mg/kg) and guinea pigs (40 or 45 mg/kg) daily or every second day. A progressive development of seizure activity after this treatment was observed. Doses ineffective after the first injection induced tonic seizures after 20 injections. Both kinds of treated anim...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Diehl RG,Smialowski A,Gotwo T

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Development of novel therapies for temporal lobe epilepsy is hindered by a lack of models suitable for drug screening. While testing the hypothesis that "inhibiting inhibitory neurons" was sufficient to induce seizures, it was discovered that a mild electrical kindling protocol of VGAT-Cre mice led to spontan...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Straub J,Gawda A,Ravichandran P,McGrew B,Nylund E,Kang J,Burke C,Vitko I,Scott M,Williamson J,Joshi S,Kapur J,Perez-Reyes E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00