Dravet syndrome and parent associations: the IDEA League experience with comorbid conditions, mortality, management, adaptation, and grief.

abstract：PURPOSE:Epilepsy is the most common serious neurologic disease, and current treatments are ineffective for

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Nilsen KE,Kelso AR,Cock HR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS) is the most common of the antiepileptic drug (AED)-resistant seizure syndromes that are remediable mostly with surgery, although a small group of patients have benign prognosis with fewer seizures. Material-specific memory impairment ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ozkara C,Hanoğlu L,Keskinkiliç C,Yeni N,Aysal F,Uzan M,Ozyurt E,Karaağaç N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically, and in experimental models, perinatal hypoxic encephalopathy is commonly associated with seizures. We previously described a rat model in which hypoxia induces seizures and permanently increases in seizure susceptibility in immature rats [postnatal day (P) 10-12] but not in older rats. In the present study...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jensen FE,Blume H,Alvarado S,Firkusny I,Geary C

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ictal single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) may help localize the seizure-onset zone (SOZ) by detecting changes in regional cerebral blood flow induced by epileptic discharges. This imaging method also reveals hyperperfusions in areas of seizure propagation, including the hemisphere contralateral t...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Huberfeld G,Habert MO,Clemenceau S,Maksud P,Baulac M,Adam C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the association between late-onset epilepsy (LOE) and 25-year change in cognitive performance. METHODS:The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study is a multicenter longitudinal cohort study with participants from four U.S. communities. From linked Medicare claims, we identified cases of LO...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Johnson EL,Krauss GL,Walker KA,Brandt J,Kucharska-Newton A,Mosley TH Jr,Yasar S,Gottesman RF

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：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：:We assessed the effects of phenytoin (PHT) overdosage on ballistic arm abduction movements in nine epileptic patients receiving long-term PHT treatment. During the overdosage period, all but one showed clinical abnormalities referable to impaired cerebellar function; one also had slowness of movement. Ballistic moveme...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Benvenuti F,Bandinelli S,Mencarelli MA,Lunardelli ML,Campostrini R,Zaccara G,Pantaleo T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epilepsy community increasingly recognizes the need for a modern classification system that can also be easily integrated with effective informatics tools. The 2010 reports by the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) identified informatics as a critical resource to improv...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sahoo SS,Zhang GQ,Lhatoo SD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac changes may occasionally occur during vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) used in epileptic patients. As they can be potentially life-threatening, it is important to detect them, and this is why an intraoperative test is performed during the implantation. Few cases of asystole during this test have been described. O...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Iriarte J,Urrestarazu E,Alegre M,Macías A,Gómez A,Amaro P,Artieda J,Viteri C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to compare the utility of baseline neuropsychological measures and scores from the intracarotid amobarbital procedure (IAP) in the prediction of postoperative memory decline in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery patients. METHODS:Logistic regression analyses were used to determine the rel...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Baxendale S,Thompson P,Harkness W,Duncan J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the relationship between seizures and excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT) activity and whether up-regulation of EAAT activity alters epileptogenicity. METHODS:In this study, we exposed rat hippocampal slices to different convulsants before measuring EAAT activity. Rats were exposed to the EAAT ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Claudio OI,Ferchmin P,Velísek L,Sperber EF,Moshé SL,Ortiz JG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoarchitectural alterations during central nervous system (CNS) development are believed to underlie aberrations in brain morphology that lead to epilepsy. We have recently reported marked reductions in hippocampal and white matter volumes along with relative ventriculomegaly in a rat strain bred to be seizure-prone...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gilby KL,Crino P,McIntyre DC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the pattern of early childhood seizures within a family with autosomal dominant chondrocalcinosis (CCAL, which causes adult-onset arthritis). All affected family members with CCAL experienced seizures in early childhood, usually, but not always, associated with fever. Similarities exist to the syndrome of ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： McKee S,Pendleton A,Dixey J,Doherty M,Hughes A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify and define clinical and behavioral features of patients with adult-onset idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). METHODS:We reviewed the charts of 313 IGE patients at the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center over the past 5 years to identify patients with adult onset (18 years old or older). We exclude...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cutting S,Lauchheimer A,Barr W,Devinsky O

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety, tolerability, and efficacy of gabapentin as adjunctive therapy were assessed in epileptic patients who had experienced up to four complex partial seizures per month while receiving phenytoin and/or carbamazepine. This was a multicenter, open-label prospective study, with the treatment period lasting 20 wee...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bruni J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy was defined conceptually in 2005 as a disorder of the brain characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures. This definition is usually practically applied as having two unprovoked seizures >24 h apart. The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) accepted recommendations of a t...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fisher RS,Acevedo C,Arzimanoglou A,Bogacz A,Cross JH,Elger CE,Engel J Jr,Forsgren L,French JA,Glynn M,Hesdorffer DC,Lee BI,Mathern GW,Moshé SL,Perucca E,Scheffer IE,Tomson T,Watanabe M,Wiebe S

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:The incidence of biochemical signs of vitamin D deficiency and the effects of vitamin D supplementation were investigated in 83 children and 95 adults on chronic antiepileptic therapy and 40 mentally retarded controls living under comparable conditions. Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D and serum calcium, and elevated immunorea...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Offermann G,Pinto V,Kruse R

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Previous studies examining seizures in patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) have focused primarily on children and adolescents. In this study we investigated the prevalence and characteristics of seizures and epilepsy in an adult 22q11.2DS population. METHODS:The medical records of 202 adult p...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Wither RG,Borlot F,MacDonald A,Butcher NJ,Chow EWC,Bassett AS,Andrade DM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep increases interictal epileptiform discharges and frequency of seizures, whereas REM sleep suppresses them. The pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), one of the REM sleep-modulating structures, is postulated to have a potent antiepileptogenic role. We asked if patients with sleep-predomina...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cho KH,Cho YJ,Lee BI,Heo K

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Diacylglycerol kinase epsilon (DGKepsilon) regulates seizure susceptibility and long-term potentiation through arachidonoyl-inositol lipid signaling. We studied the significance of arachidonoyl-diacylglycerol (20:4 DAG) in epileptogenesis in DGKepsilon-deficient mice undergoing rapid kindling epileptogenesis. ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Musto A,Bazan NG

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：: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:This study's goal was to provide preliminary data on the pharmacokinetics of topiramate (TPM) in a cohort of infants (younger than 4 years) participating in an open-label trial of TPM in refractory infantile spasms. METHODS:The pharmacokinetics of TPM were assessed in infants receiving a stable TPM dose for >7...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Glauser TA,Miles MV,Tang P,Clark P,McGee K,Doose DR

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses methodologic issues in studies of mortality, and the impact of these issues in studies of mortality in epilepsy. One important issue is to identify the question: Is it whether epilepsy increases the risk of dying? Or is it whether the underlying condition that led to epilepsy, itself associated wi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Logroscino G,Hesdorffer DC

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:The practice of epileptology at a molecular level, where gene products are identified by gene mapping, will soon be possible for a growing number of epilepsies. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is the first of such epilepsies to be mapped to a chromosome, namely chromosome 6p21.3. Family studies of 68 JME probands fr...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Delgado-Escueta AV,Greenberg DA,Treiman L,Liu A,Sparkes RS,Barbetti A,Park MS,Terasaki PI

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats injected intracranially with cholesterol precursors and subjected to electroconvulsive seizures showed significantly higher levels of deposition of [4-14C]cholesterol into brain cholesterol than controls. The degree of incorporation was cholesterol greater than mevalonic acid greater than sodium acetate; in each ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Colannino NM,Lipke H

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients with medically refractory epilepsy now undergo successful surgery based on noninvasive diagnostic information, but intracranial electroencephalography (IEEG) continues to be used as increasingly complex cases are considered surgical candidates. The indications for IEEG and the modalities employed vary ac...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jayakar P,Gotman J,Harvey AS,Palmini A,Tassi L,Schomer D,Dubeau F,Bartolomei F,Yu A,Kršek P,Velis D,Kahane P

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00