Clues to the genetic influences of drug responsiveness in epilepsy.

abstract：:An early EEG (within 48 h) and high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (hr_MRI) are the methods of choice for an accurate diagnosis after a first seizure presentation. Together with a careful history and examination, they will allow definition of the epilepsy syndrome in two-thirds of patients and help assess the i...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Pohlmann-Eden B,Newton M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the clinical data have been equivocal in regard to the effects of clonazepam (CZP) in focal-motor seizures, an alumina gel monkey model was used to evaluate quantitatively its efficacy with respect to this seizure category. The insolubility of CZP and its short biological half-life in monkey necessitated its eva...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lockard JS,Levy RH,Congdon WC,DuCharme LL,Salonen LD

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one cases (12 males, 9 females) of Lafora's disease in 16 families were studied at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India, from 1982 to 1990. Mean age of onset was 13.5 years (range 9.5-18 years). First symptom was generalized tonic-clonic seizure (17), myoclonus ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Acharya JN,Satishchandra P,Asha T,Shankar SK

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate possible predictive factors for seizure control in a group of children and adults with low IQs (IQ, < or =70) who underwent resective surgery for intractable focal epilepsy and to study outcome with respect to seizures and neuropsychological functioning. We also studied psychosocial outcome in th...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bjørnaes H,Stabell KE,Heminghyt E,Røste GK,Bakke SJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The present study was undertaken to clarify the effects of (RS)-1-aminoindan-1,5-dicarboxylic acid (AIDA), a metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) 1 antagonist, (2R,4R)-4-aminopyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylate ((2R,4R)-APDC), a mGluR2/3 agonist, and L-(+)-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (L-AP4), a mGluR4/8 agonis...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Watanabe Y,Kaida Y,Fukuhara S,Takechi K,Uehara T,Kamei C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Unilateral intrahippocampal injection of kainic acid (KA) in adult mice induces the progressive dispersion of dentate granule cells, one of the characteristic pathologic changes of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. However, little is known about the mechanisms that trigger this dispersion. In this study, the possi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Suzuki F,Heinrich C,Boehrer A,Mitsuya K,Kurokawa K,Matsuda M,Depaulis A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures cannot be medically controlled in approximately 40% of people with epilepsy. Although we are beginning to understand how to better treat certain seizure types, we still do not know the regulatory events that determine antiepileptic drug resistance. Proposed pathoetiologic mechanisms include altered expression...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kobow K,El-Osta A,Blümcke I

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Low-frequency fiber-tract stimulation has been shown to be effective in treating mesial temporal lobe epilepsies through activation of the hippocampal commissure in rodents and human patients. The corpus callosum is a major pathway connecting the two hemispheres of the brain; however, few experiments have doc...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Couturier NH,Durand DM

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, control of seizures in patients with epilepsy is viewed as the most important clinical outcome. Yet, current antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) do not always achieve this. Around 30-40% of patients remain uncontrolled despite pharmacological intervention. Poor tolerability of AEDs is a large part of the problem...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bazil CW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent systematic synthesis of qualitative research demonstrated that patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) often experience unsatisfactory encounters with health care practitioners (HCPs). It is important to understand such interactions from the perspective of those responsible for delivering care....

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rawlings GH,Reuber M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine prevalence of active epilepsy in school children in a defined area and assess the usefulness of International League Against Epilepsy classification of seizures and epileptic syndromes, with special emphasis on frequency, additional handicaps, and therapeutic problems of severe cases. METHODS:The ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Waaler PE,Blom BH,Skeidsvoll H,Mykletun A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The possibility that a recent seizure or a recent change in antiepileptic medication might produce an occult change in neuropsychological performance is of interest, and especially so in the context of evaluation for epilepsy surgery. Such an evaluation is often done in a setting of video-EEG monitoring where a...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Dodrill CB,Ojemann GA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (SE) accounts for approximately one-quarter of all cases of SE. The actual proportion may be higher because patients with nonconvulsive SE may go unidentified. This disorder may be divided into generalized (absence) or partial (complex partial) forms. Nonconvulsive SE may occur de novo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cascino GD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy is associated with characteristic changes in the disposition of antiepileptic drugs; recent findings on this aspect of drug utilization are presented. In one study involving 48 pregnancies, the mean level-dose ratio of phenytoin decreased by 34%. In another study of 111 patients, phenytoin clearance increase...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Levy RH,Yerby MS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptogenic networks are defined by the brain regions involved in the production and propagation of epileptic activities. In this review we describe the historical, methodologic, and conceptual bases of this model in the analysis of electrophysiologic intracerebral recordings. In the context of epilepsy surgery, the...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bartolomei F,Lagarde S,Wendling F,McGonigal A,Jirsa V,Guye M,Bénar C

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In CSWS (continuous spike waves during sleep) activation of spike waves during slow wave sleep has been causally linked to neuropsychological deficits, but the pathophysiologic mechanisms are still unknown. In healthy subjects, the overnight decrease of the slope of slow waves in NREM (non-rapid eye movement)...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bölsterli Heinzle BK,Fattinger S,Kurth S,Lebourgeois MK,Ringli M,Bast T,Critelli H,Schmitt B,Huber R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The antiepileptic drug (AED) vigabatrin (VGB), which exerts its pharmacologic effects on the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) system, causes concentric visual field constriction in >40% of exposed adults. This may be a class effect of all agents with GABA-related mechanisms of action. We compared the concentratio...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sills GJ,Butler E,Forrest G,Ratnaraj N,Patsalos PN,Brodie MJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before a health education program can be established, one must first know what the target population believes and does with respect to the disease in question. Therefore, we performed a study among Tanzanian rural inhabitants to identify their knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) toward epilepsy: 3,256 heads of hou...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rwiza HT,Matuja WB,Kilonzo GP,Haule J,Mbena P,Mwang'ombola R,Jilek-Aall L

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alpha-[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan (alpha-MTrp) positron emission tomography (PET) is a promising tool in the localization of the epileptogenic area in selected group of focal epilepsy patients. Electrophysiological evidence suggests the involvement of the neocortex in periventricular nodular heterotopia (PVNH)....

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Natsume J,Bernasconi N,Aghakhani Y,Kumakura Y,Nishikawa M,Fedi M,Soualmi L,Dubeau F,Andermann F,Bernasconi A,Diksic M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalized epilepsies are treatable with a number of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) that are effective in different seizure types and epilepsy syndromes. The mechanisms of action of these AEDs are incompletely understood but include inhibition of low-threshold calcium currents and of voltage-gated sodium channels and fac...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Berkovic SF

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) experience significant deficits in category-related object recognition and naming following standard surgical approaches. These deficits may result from a decoupling of core processing modules (e.g., language, visual processing, and semantic memory), due to "collate...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Drane DL,Loring DW,Voets NL,Price M,Ojemann JG,Willie JT,Saindane AM,Phatak V,Ivanisevic M,Millis S,Helmers SL,Miller JW,Meador KJ,Gross RE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of phenytoin (PHT) on the spontaneous activity of cerebellar Purkinje cells and the drug serum levels have been examined following both intravenous and intraperitoneal administration in rats. Purkinje cell activity was assessed by on-line computer analysis of interspike interval distributions. PHT levels w...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Latham A,Paul DH

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nocturnal frontal lobe seizures (NFLS) show one or all of the following semeiological patterns: (1) paroxysmal arousals (PA: brief and sudden recurrent motor paroxysmal behavior); (2) hyperkinetic seizures (HS: motor attacks with complex dyskinetic features); (3) asymmetric bilateral tonic seizures (ATS: mot...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Vignatelli L,Bisulli F,Provini F,Naldi I,Pittau F,Zaniboni A,Montagna P,Tinuper P

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：PURPOSE:A drug holiday seems to produce seizure interval prolongation (SIP) after reinstitution of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). This effect was demonstrated mainly with carbamazepine. We evaluated SIP with newer AEDs and tested the relationship of SIP to history of AED tolerance. METHODS:We prospectively studied patien...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Azar NJ,Lagrange AH,Wang L,Song Y,Abou-Khalil BW

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Cognitive impairment is the most common comorbidity in children with epilepsy, but its pathophysiology and predisposing conditions remain unknown. Clinical epilepsy characteristics are not conclusive in determining cognitive outcome. Because many children with epilepsy do not have macrostructural magnetic resonance im...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Braakman HM,van der Kruijs SJ,Vaessen MJ,Jansen JF,Debeij-van Hall MH,Vles JS,Aldenkamp AP,Backes WH,Hofman PA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Many antiseizure drugs (ASDs) act on voltage-dependent sodium channels, and the molecular basis of these effects is well established. In contrast, how ASDs act on the level of neuronal networks is much less understood. METHODS:In the present study, we determined the effects of eslicarbazepine (S-Lic) on diff...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Schmidt S,Pothmann L,Müller-Komorowska D,Opitz T,Soares da Silva P,Beck H

更新日期：2021-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the cognitive-behavioral treatment of a 12-year-old boy with photogenic partial seizures with secondary generalization who had developed phobic avoidant behavior toward all kinds of situations with potential photostimulation, leading to serious impairments of life quality. Based on a behavioral analysis o...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Noeker M,Haverkamp F

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homocysteine thiolactone (HTL) elicits seizures in mice at a dose of 850 mg/kg (95-100% of animals) with an average latency time of 19.5 min. These seizures are reversed by both 5' N-ethylcarboximide adenosine (NECA) and flunitrazepam, with respective ED50 doses of 0.025 and 0.20 mg/kg. NECA was approximately four-fol...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Marangos PJ,Loftus T,Wiesner J,Lowe T,Rossi E,Browne CE,Gruber HE

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00