Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus as adjunct treatment for refractory epilepsy.

abstract：:Aminophylline (50 and 100 mg/kg) and CGS 8216 (20 and 40 mg/kg) decreased the anticonvulsant potency of diazepam (5 and 10 mg/kg) against electroshock-induced seizures. It should be emphasized that aminophylline moderately affected the protective action of the benzodiazepine at a dose of 5 mg/kg, whereas it was equipo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Czuczwar SJ,Turski WA,Ikonomidou C,Turski L

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old patient with hyperglycemia and rheumatoid arthritis presented with attacks of involuntary lingual movements that were associated with pain at the base of the tongue, often followed by aversion of head and eyes to the left with clonic contractions of the left corner of the mouth. Seizures could be induced...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Neufeld MY,Blumen SC,Nisipeanu P,Korczyn AD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study of 305 children was done to evaluate the relationship between toxocariasis and seizures and risk factors associated with toxocariasis transmission and seizure onset. A significant association existed between seropositivity for anti-Toxocara canis and seizures (p less than 0.05); the correlation wa...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Arpino C,Gattinara GC,Piergili D,Curatolo P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenytoin is metabolized to its parahydroxylated derivative by hepatic microsomal enzymes. This hydroxylation is a saturable process, that is, the rate of metabolism fails to increase in proportion to the serum concentration. This leads to a nonlinear relationship between the maintenance dose of the drug and the resul...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Richens A

更新日期：1975-11-01 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：:Quality of life (QOL) must be determined from the patients' subjective viewpoint. To determine QOL in epilepsy, it is necessary to use disease-specific scales. We introduced the Side Effects and Life Satisfaction (SEALS) scale to Japan and performed a comparative study on adult patients with epilepsy and normal subjec...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kugoh T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of antiepileptic drugs have been investigated extensively during the last two decades. It has become evident that the therapeutic management of epileptic patients would be significantly improved with the elimination of the drawbacks associated with existing antiepileptic drugs. Based on the inform...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Levy RH,Kerr BM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe the long-term outcome of childhood-onset secondarily generalized epilepsies (SGEs). METHODS:Children were identified from the Nova Scotia population-based epilepsy study (n=692). Onset of epilepsy was between 1977 and 1985, and follow-up was mainly in 2003. SGE was defined as having a mixture of mo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Camfield P,Camfield C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Clobazam (CLB) has an important antiepileptic effect and is less expensive than the new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), but still has not been considered as first-line drug in the treatment of epilepsy. We evaluated the efficacy of CLB as add-on therapy in patients with refractory partial epilepsy. METHODS:This wa...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Montenegro MA,Cendes F,Noronha AL,Mory SB,Carvalho MI,Marques LH,Guerreiro CA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of spontaneous spindling in electrocorticograms from awake rodents are described. Comparisons are made between this spontaneous activity and epileptic activity generated in the sensorimotor cortex. ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hammond EJ,Villarreal HJ,Wilder BJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ablation surgery has become the first line of treatment for hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs). For effective treatment, optimum targeting of ablation is mandatory. The present study aimed to evaluate the correspondence between the electrophysiological features of HHs and morphological targeting by semimicrorecord...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Shirozu H,Masuda H,Kameyama S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate health care expenditures among elderly patients with epilepsy in the United States. METHODS:We performed an analysis of weighted 37 738 607 US participants aged 65 years to estimate health care expenditures in the elderly with and without epilepsy using the Medical E...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lekoubou A,Bishu KG,Ovbiagele B

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) is characterized by neuronal loss in the hippocampus. Studies on experimental models and patients with intractable epilepsy suggest that apoptosis may be involved in neuronal death induced by recurrent seizures. METHODS:We searched evidence for apoptotic cell death in temporal l...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Uysal H,Cevik IU,Soylemezoglu F,Elibol B,Ozdemir YG,Evrenkaya T,Saygi S,Dalkara T

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Interictal spikes are a characteristic feature of invasive electroencephalography (EEG) recordings in children with refractory epilepsy. Spikes frequently co-occur across multiple brain regions with discernable latencies, suggesting that spikes can propagate through distributed neural networks. The purpose of...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tomlinson SB,Wong JN,Conrad EC,Kennedy BC,Marsh ED

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variants in the SCN2A gene, encoding the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV 1.2, cause a variety of neuropsychiatric syndromes with different severity ranging from self-limiting epilepsies with early onset to developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with early or late onset and intellectual disability (ID), as well as...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hedrich UBS,Lauxmann S,Lerche H

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Kindled seizures are widely used to model epileptogenesis, but the molecular mechanisms underlying the attainment of kindling status are largely unknown. Recently we showed that achievement of kindling status in the Sprague-Dawley rat is associated with a critical developmental interval of 25 +/- 1 days; the id...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Junker H,Späte K,Suofu Y,Walther R,Schwarz G,Kammer W,Nordheim A,Walker LC,Runge U,Kessler C,Popa-Wagner A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the mechanisms of startle-induced supplementary sensorimotor area (SSMA) seizures. METHODS:We present a patient investigated with indwelling subdural grid electrodes covering both the SSMA and the dorsolateral frontal lobe. RESULTS:We found a simultaneous seizure onset in the right dorsolateral premo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Serles W,Leutmezer F,Pataraia E,Olbrich A,Gröppel G,Czech T,Baumgartner C

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 4-year-old girl with profound global developmental delay and refractory epilepsy characterized by multiple seizure types (partial complex with secondary generalization, tonic, myoclonic, and atypical absence). Her seizure semiology did not fit within a specific epileptic syndrome. Despite a broad metaboli...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Venkateswaran S,Myers KA,Smith AC,Beaulieu CL,Schwartzentruber JA,FORGE Canada Consortium.,Majewski J,Bulman D,Boycott KM,Dyment DA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) on internal carotid artery (ICA) blood flow velocity, as an index of total cerebral blood flow (CBF). The subjects were 45 newly diagnosed children with febrile convulsion or epilepsy who were seizure-free for a period long enough not to affect the results. They had ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Futagi Y,Otani K,Imai K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of automated detection of cortical-onset epileptic seizures from subcortical structures such as the thalamus was investigated via simultaneous recording of electroencephalography (EEG) and anterior and centromedian thalamic nuclei electrical signals (electrothalamography) in nine subjects with pharmaco...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Osorio I,Frei MG,Lozano AM,Wennberg R

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs) are events that alter or seem to alter the neurologic function and, in their appearance, resemble epileptic seizures (ESs). In patients with ESs the psychological and medical aspects of epilepsy greatly influence the health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The relation ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Szaflarski JP,Hughes C,Szaflarski M,Ficker DM,Cahill WT,Li M,Privitera MD

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To clarify the differences between postictal mania (PIM) and postictal psychosis (PIP). METHODS:Five patients with PIM were compared to 17 patients with PIP, with respect to clinical, epileptological, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging features. PIM was distinguished from PIP by the symptoms observed in th...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Nishida T,Kudo T,Inoue Y,Nakamura F,Yoshimura M,Matsuda K,Yagi K,Fujiwara T

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:In this study, we aimed to investigate the types of seizures and epilepsy associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We searched the medical records at a tertiary referral center to identify a cohort of epilepsy patients with SLE who were treated between January 2000 and August 2011. We analyzed the clinical ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Toyota T,Akamatsu N,Tanaka A,Shouzaki T,Tsuji S,Saito K,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneously epileptic rats (SER) are a double mutant (zi/zi, tm/tm) spontaneously exhibiting both tonic and absence-like seizures. We examined the long-term effects of continual intake of phenobarbital (PB) on SER as a method of assessing long-term evaluation of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Food pellets containing 0....

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Serikawa T,Kogishi K,Yamada J,Ohno Y,Ujihara H,Fujita Y,Sasa M,Takaori S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Among children with epilepsy, to develop and evaluate a model to predict emergency department (ED) use, an indicator of poor disease control and/or poor access to care. METHODS:We used electronic health record data from 2013 to predict ED use in 2014 at 2 centers, benchmarking predictive performance against ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Grinspan ZM,Patel AD,Hafeez B,Abramson EL,Kern LM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Exposure to toxic levels of organophosphorus (OP) nerve agents can lead to seizures, respiratory failure, and, if untreated, death. The cholinesterase inhibitor soman belongs to the class of OP nerve agents and can cause status epilepticus (SE) and brain damage due to neuroexcitotoxicity. In the present study, ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： de Araujo Furtado M,Lumley LA,Robison C,Tong LC,Lichtenstein S,Yourick DL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal cell densities in various regions of the anterior and posterior hippocampal formation were measured from en bloc temporal lobe resections and compared with presurgical stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) data derived from depth electrodes in 12 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. These data were compared w...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Babb TL,Lieb JP,Brown WJ,Pretorius J,Crandall PH

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Doublecortin (DCX) is a microtubule-associated protein with regulatory roles in radial and tangential migration of neurons during cortical development. In normal adult cortex there is restricted expression, and DCX is widely used as a marker of neurogenesis. Imperfect corticogenesis is thought to underpin many ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Srikandarajah N,Martinian L,Sisodiya SM,Squier W,Blumcke I,Aronica E,Thom M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00