Serum androgen levels and testicular structure during pubertal maturation in male subjects with epilepsy.

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：:Autoantibodies to surface proteins that influence neuronal excitability are increasingly found in different forms of epilepsy or encephalitis in adults, and are also beginning to be identified in children. The conditions are often refractory to traditional antiepileptic drugs. Detection of these antibodies can help to...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Vincent A,Irani SR,Lang B

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoxetine was evaluated for anticonvulsant effects in a rat model of focally evoked complex partial seizures (CPS) secondarily generalized. Fluoxetine was administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) 1 h before seizures were induced by focal intracerebral application of the GABAA receptor antagonist, bicuculline methiodide ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Prendiville S,Gale K

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the occurrence of ictal and postictal aphasia in different focal epilepsy syndromes. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed the video-electroencephalographic monitoring data of 1,118 patients with focal epilepsy for seizure-associated aphasia (SAA). Statistical analysis included chi-square analys...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Loesch AM,Steger H,Losher C,Hartl E,Rémi J,Vollmar C,Noachtar S

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Approximately three-quarters of epileptic patients seen in consultation by specialists can easily be assigned to one of the diagnostic categories of the International League against Epilepsy. When patient age is taken into account, such a distribution shows that partial epilepsy is more common than generalized epileps...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gastaut H,Gastaut JL,Gonçalves e Silva GE,Fernandez Sanchez GR

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It remains controversial whether a specific pattern of interictal epileptiform activity exists that may help to differentiate temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) due to hippocampal sclerosis (HS) from other forms of TLE. In this study, we characterized the distribution of interictal epileptiform discharges in TLE due ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hamer HM,Najm I,Mohamed A,Wyllie E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to systematically review studies that have focused on symptoms of anxiety reported by parents of children (0-18 years) with epilepsy. PubMed was used to identify relevant studies. Selected studies were reviewed with respect to prevalence of above threshold scores and comparisons with controls on standardiz...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jones C,Reilly C

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：PURPOSE:To explore the correlations between treatment modalities and selected disease parameters with outcome in febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), a catastrophic epileptic encephalopathy with a yet undefined etiology. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective multicenter study on children who had been in...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kramer U,Chi CS,Lin KL,Specchio N,Sahin M,Olson H,Nabbout R,Kluger G,Lin JJ,van Baalen A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, there are 4 published scales evaluating status epilepticus (SE) prognosis: the Status Epilepticus Severity Score (STESS), the Epidemiology-based Mortality score in Status Epilepticus (EMSE), the modified STESS (mSTESS), and the Encephalitis Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus Diazepam Resistence Imaging Trache...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Yuan F,Gao Q,Jiang W

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To report our evaluation of interictal two epileptic spike fields on magnetoencephalography (MEG) by using invasive intracranial monitoring in a patient without lesion on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS:A 15-year-old left-handed boy with a 9-year history of refractory simple partial seizures, seconda...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Otsubo H,Sharma R,Elliott I,Holowka S,Rutka JT,Snead OC 3rd

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the long-term evolution of Unverricht-Lundborg disease (ULD), especially concerning myoclonus, seizures, and EEG characteristics. METHODS:We retrospectively evaluated 20 patients (six women, 14 men; mean age, 37.9 years; range, 26-53 years) with ULD who had been closely followed up since the onset of...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Magaudda A,Ferlazzo E,Nguyen VH,Genton P

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Focal epilepsy can be produced by a blood-brain barrier (BBB)-excluded systemic convulsant (penicillin, folic acid, etc.) in the presence of a focal BBB lesion. Bicuculline methiodide, a gamma-aminobutyric acid blocking epileptogen, crosses the normal BBB of rats poorly and produces no consistent abnormality behaviora...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Remler MP,Marcussen WH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter (VWM) is caused by mutations in the genes encoding for one of the five subunits that constitute the eukaryotic initiation factor 2B (eIF2B), and is characterized by a highly suggestive MRI pattern indicating vanishing of the cerebral white matter. Seizures are well known...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jansen AC,Andermann E,Niel F,Creveaux I,Boespflug-Tanguy O,Andermann F

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Compare annual direct and indirect costs between privately insured U.S. patients with epileptic partial onset seizures (POS) and matched controls. METHODS:One thousand eight hundred fifty-nine patients (including a subset of 758 employees) with >or=1 (POS) diagnosis (ICD-9-CM: 345.4.x-345.7.x), 1999-2004, ages...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ivanova JI,Birnbaum HG,Kidolezi Y,Qiu Y,Mallett D,Caleo S

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) presents a revised operational classification of seizure types. The purpose of such a revision is to recognize that some seizure types can have either a focal or generalized onset, to allow classification when the onset is unobserved, to include some missing seizure typ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fisher RS,Cross JH,French JA,Higurashi N,Hirsch E,Jansen FE,Lagae L,Moshé SL,Peltola J,Roulet Perez E,Scheffer IE,Zuberi SM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of generic products of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) has been increasing in recent years. In view of the importance of the issue, the Italian League against Epilepsy (LICE) set up an ad hoc working group whose task was to assess available evidence on the efficacy and safety of generic AEDs in the treatme...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Perucca E,Albani F,Capovilla G,Bernardina BD,Michelucci R,Zaccara G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between diurnal fluctuations in free (unbound) and total plasma carbamazepine levels and the appearance of intermittent side effects was investigated in nine epileptic patients receiving chronic therapy with carbamazepine, alone or in combination with phenobarbital. On a three-times-daily or four-time...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Riva R,Albani F,Ambrosetto G,Contin M,Cortelli P,Perucca E,Baruzzi A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Univerricht-Lundborg disease (ULD), with its major symptom of action myoclonus, is supposed to be very rare in the Netherlands and western Europe. We hypothesized that the syndrome may be underdiagnosed in patients with myoclonus epilepsy. METHODS:Mutation analysis of the cystatin B gene was performed in 21 ca...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： de Haan GJ,Halley DJ,Doelman JC,Geesink HH,Augustijn PB,Jager-Jongkind AD,Majoie M,Bader AJ,Leliefeld-Ten Doeschate LA,Deelen WH,Bertram E,Lehesjoki AE,Lindhout D

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain slices incubated with glucose have provided most of our knowledge on cellular, synaptic, and network driven mechanisms. It has been recently suggested that γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) excites neonatal neurons in conventional glucose-perfused slices but not when ketone bodies metabolites, pyruvate, and/or lactate ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ben-Ari Y,Tyzio R,Nehlig A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (rTLE), gray matter (GM) abnormalities are not confined to the hippocampus but also are found in extrahippocampal structures. Very recently we observed in mild TLE (mTLE) with or without mesiotemporal sclerosis (MTS), GM reductions in regions outside the presumed epileptogen...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Labate A,Cerasa A,Aguglia U,Mumoli L,Quattrone A,Gambardella A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenobarbital (phenobarbitone) was first used as an antiepileptic drug 100 years ago, in 1912. This article tells the story of the discovery of its antiepileptic action, its early development, and the subsequent course of its clinical use over the 100-year period. The side effects, pharmacokinetics, and misuse of barb...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Yasiry Z,Shorvon SD

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

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：PURPOSE:To describe the semiological features of auditory aura and to assess their possible lateralizing value in partial epilepsy. METHODS:Out of a series of 8,000 patients with epilepsy, we investigated 121 cases with partial seizures in whom auditory features were the first ictal symptom. According to the dominant ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Florindo I,Bisulli F,Pittau F,Naldi I,Striano P,Striano S,Michelucci R,Testoni S,Baruzzi A,Tinuper P

更新日期：2006-01-01 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 longstanding dichotomy between the concepts of "focal" and "primary generalized" epilepsy has become increasingly blurred, raising fundamental questions about the nature of ictal onset in localized brain regions versus large-scale brain networks. We hypothesize that whether an EEG discharge appears focal or genera...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Terry JR,Benjamin O,Richardson MP

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amygdala kindling is used to investigate cerebellar dentate nucleus participation in the neuronal plasticity of the cerebrum. We studied the behavioral change, the occurrence of epileptiform events, and the duration of afterdischarge during amygdaloid kindling under control conditions and after a dentate lesion of the...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tsuru N,Kawasaki H,Genda S,Hara K,Hashiguchi H,Ueda Y

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00