Clinical neurophysiology with special reference to the electroencephalogram.

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：PURPOSE:Epilepsy is known to result from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). There are no population-based estimates of the absolute risk or the duration for which this risk is elevated. We have conducted a population-based study in Iceland of the risk of epilepsy after a ruptured cerebral aneurysm to address the...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Olafsson E,Gudmundsson G,Hauser WA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful treatment of hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) can result in the resolution of its sequelae including epilepsy and rage attacks. Risks and morbidity of open surgical management of this lesion have motivated the development of laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) as a less invasive treatment approach to the d...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Du VX,Gandhi SV,Rekate HL,Mehta AD

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess pharmacokinetics and safety of diazepam nasal spray (NRL-1; VALTOCO®) in pediatric and adult patients with epilepsy in seizure and nonseizure states. METHODS:A single dose of diazepam nasal spray (5, 10, 15, or 20 mg based on weight) was administered during each of two conditions (ictal/peri-ictal ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hogan RE,Tarquinio D,Sperling MR,Klein P,Miller I,Segal EB,Rabinowicz AL,Carrazana E

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No reports of the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory (WPSI) have yet been presented from Asian countries in detail. We performed a multiinstitutional study of this test in 652 Japanese subjects. The mean value of the Lie Scale was high, and only one third of our subjects were under the limit of the original cri...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hosokawa K,Kugoh T,Mino S

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Zinc is released in synaptic vesicles with glutamate, and modulates glutamatergic neurotransmission. In brain, the highest amount of zinc, detected by Timm staining, is in the mossy fiber (MF) system in the hippocampus. In the intrahippocampal kainate (KA) mouse model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, which is ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mitsuya K,Nitta N,Suzuki F

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Benign rolandic epilepsy (BRE) is considered a genetically determined idiopathic partial epilepsy. We analyzed a large sample of twins from four international twin registers to probe the genetics of BRE. We also aim to synthesize the apparently conflicting family and twin data into a model of BRE etiology. MET...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Vadlamudi L,Kjeldsen MJ,Corey LA,Solaas MH,Friis ML,Pellock JM,Nakken KO,Milne RL,Scheffer IE,Harvey AS,Hopper JL,Berkovic SF

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if three different commercially available seizure-detection software packages (Besa 2.0, Encevis 1.7, and Persyst 13) accurately detect seizures with high sensitivity, high specificity, and short detection delay in epilepsy patients undergoing long-term video-electroencephalography (EEG) monitori...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Koren J,Hafner S,Feigl M,Baumgartner C

更新日期：2021-01-19 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：:We evaluated language functions in 154 patients with left hemisphere speech dominance undergoing anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL). Measures of phonemic and semantic fluency, confrontation naming, repetition, comprehension, and reading were administered before and 3 weeks postoperatively. Patients were grouped by focu...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Saykin AJ,Stafiniak P,Robinson LJ,Flannery KA,Gur RC,O'Connor MJ,Sperling MR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) is a common structural malformation of cortical development. Mutations in the filamin A gene are frequent in familial cases with X-linked PNH. However, many cases with sporadic PNH remain genetically unexplained. Although medically refractory epilepsy often brings attention to...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Montier L,Haneef Z,Gavvala J,Yoshor D,North R,Verla T,Van Ness PC,Drabek J,Goldman AM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous, generalized 2.5 to 3.5-Hz spike-wave (SW) discharges were evident in an EEG performed 13 h after a first seizure associated with a viral illness, in an 8-year-old girl. On eye opening, the EEG abnormality was suppressed and replaced by delta activity and brief spike-wave paroxysms. No alteration in conscio...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gökyiğit A,Calişkan A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the effects of nitric oxide (NO) on seizure activity observed in brain areas that are remote from a primary epileptic focus. METHODS:Following an injection of kainate (concentration 1 mg/ml, volume 1 microl) in the rat hippocampus, we measured NO synthesis in the contralateral hippocampus and ep...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Yasuda H,Fujii M,Fujisawa H,Ito H,Suzuki M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This report concerns the 2-year extension of the study of mortality and sudden, unexpected, unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP) in the cohort of patients receiving vagal nerve stimulation by the NCP System for the treatment of epilepsy. METHODS:A cohort of 1,819 individuals was followed 3,176.3 person-years ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Annegers JF,Coan SP,Hauser WA,Leestma J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men are different from women, and patients with epilepsy are different in many aspects from healthy control subjects. Quantitative or semiquantitative analysis of neuroimaging data depends on the comparison between either a single patient against a group of healthy or unaffected controls, or comparisons between groups...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Koepp MJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six consecutive epileptic patients with partial seizures (30 temporal, 26 extratemporal) and facial asymmetry were studied. Facial asymmetry was compared with EEG, radiologic, and other clinical findings. Thirty patients had a lesional epilepsy whereas 26 were considered cryptogenic. In lesional epilepsies, 60% ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tinuper P,Plazzi G,Provini F,Cerullo A,Leonardi M,Agati R,Righini A,Montagna P

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures for identifying novel antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are changing and need to change more. Widespread reliance on two primary screens has led to the identification of novel compounds that resemble either phenytoin (suppressing high-frequency repetitive firing in cultured neurons and prolonging inactivation of v...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Meldrum BS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anticonvulsant and toxic properties of methyl 4-[(p-chlorophenyl)amino]-6-methyl-2-oxocyclohex-3-en-1-oate (ADD 196022), were compared with those of phenytoin (PHT), carbamazepine (CBZ), and valproate (VPA). These compounds were evaluated in mice and rats using well-standardized anticonvulsant testing procedures. ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mulzac D,Scott KR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Deep brain stimulation has been used by several investigators to prevent the occurrence of spontaneous seizures in patients with intractable epilepsy. With the kainic acid rat model of spontaneous recurrent seizures, we examined the consequences of subthreshold electrical stimulation of commissural pathways and...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bragin A,Wilson CL,Engel J Jr

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe postoperative outcome in patients with familial mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (FMTLE). METHODS:We studied FMTLE patients who underwent surgical treatment for refractory seizures. FMTLE was defined when at least two individuals in a family had a clinical EEG diagnosis of MTLE. Preoperative investiga...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kobayashi E,D'Agostino MD,Lopes-Cendes I,Andermann E,Dubeau F,Guerreiro CA,Schenka AA,Queiroz LS,Olivier A,Cendes F,Andermann F

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to characterize the incidence and etiology of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) in a community-based cohort of children with new-onset disease. METHODS:A community-based cohort of 30 children with TLE was studied. The patients had new-onset disease before age 14 years between 1995 and 1999...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sztriha L,Gururaj AK,Bener A,Nork M

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:A case of Rasmussen encephalitis with bilateral involvement and onset at age 2 years is reviewed. Rasmussen encephalitis is a rare progressive disease that causes intractable seizures, cognitive decline, and inflammatory changes in the brain. The neurologic involvement is characteristically unilateral. Bilateral invol...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tobias SM,Robitaille Y,Hickey WF,Rhodes CH,Nordgren R,Andermann F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the role of 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in detecting biochemical abnormalities in neuronal migration disorders (NMDs). METHODS:We performed 1H-MRS studies on 17 brain NMD areas [five polymicrogyria, eight subcortical heterotopia, and four cortical dysplasia on magnetic resonance imaging ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Simone IL,Federico F,Tortorella C,De Blasi R,Bellomo R,Lucivero V,Carrara D,Bellacosa A,Livrea P,Carella A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe early onset epilepsies are often caused by de novo pathogenic variants. Few studies have reported the frequency of somatic mosaicism in parents of children with severe epileptic encephalopathies. Here we aim to investigate the frequency of mosaicism in the parents of children with epilepsy caused by alleged de ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Møller RS,Liebmann N,Larsen LHG,Stiller M,Hentschel J,Kako N,Abdin D,Di Donato N,Pal DK,Zacher P,Syrbe S,Dahl HA,Lemke JR

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and generalized epilepsy revealed no overall seizure type differences, nor overall age-at-onset effects, on MMPI measures of psychopathology. However, statistically significant interactions between seizure type and age at onset were obtained on several MMPI measures, and s...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hermann BP,Schwartz MS,Karnes WE,Vahdat P

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We review what is currently known about functional and morphologic plasticity of hippocampal neuronal circuits in animal epilepsy models. RESULTS:Perforant-path kindling has been shown to enhance excitatory synaptic transmission in the dentate gyrus significantly, and this enhancement has lasted for > or =1 mo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Maru E,Kanda M,Ashida H

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The hypothesis was tested that epileptiform alterations of brain excitability may be elicited by a conditioning stimulus (CS) in a classical conditioning paradigm. Fifteen male albino rats were chronically implanted with electrodes in the amygdala and over the visual cortex. A train of six stroboscopic flashes served ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Myslobodsky MS,Mintz M,Lerner T,Mostofsky DI

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Several experimental paradigms of seizure induction that produce epilepsy as a consequence have been shown to be associated with the proliferation of dentate granule cells. In developing animals, the acute sequela of hilar damage and the chronic sequelae of spontaneous seizures and mossy fiber synaptic reorgani...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sankar R,Shin D,Liu H,Katsumori H,Wasterlain CG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00