Anesthestic agents and status epilepticus.

abstract：:Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can be used for noninvasive measurement of more than two dozen small metabolites in the brains of living animals and humans. In the first decade of its use for study of seizure phenomena in animals, MRS successfully detected in vivo seizure-induced cerebral acidosis and reduction ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Prichard JW

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:The 1981 International Classification of Epileptic Seizures (ICES) was used to study the distribution of seizure types in 1,250 patients attending an Epilepsy Clinic in Sri Lanka. Based on seizure symptomatology 94.6% of the cases could be classified, and by adding the routine interictal EEG findings the percentage of...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Senanayake N

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The concordance of lateralized EEG postictal polymorphic delta activity (PPDA) to the side of seizure origin in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) has received limited study. Our objective was to study the lateralizing value of PPDA in patients with documented TLE. METHODS:A cohort of consecutive adults with TLE, de...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jan MM,Sadler M,Rahey SR

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Accurate classification of epileptic seizures, epilepsies, and epilepsy syndromes is mandatory in both clinical practice and epilepsy research. In 2010, the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) proposed a new classification scheme. The aim of this study is to determine whether application of this new cl...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： van Campen JS,Jansen FE,Brouwer OF,Nicolai J,Braun KP

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear magnetic resonance is a noninvasive technique of imaging the brain using signals produced by magnetic fields and radiowaves. Sixteen patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) had magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during investigation for possible surgical management. These images plus those of 10 no...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： McLachlan RS,Nicholson RL,Black S,Carr T,Blume WT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the sodium channel subunit gene SCN2A have been described in families with benign familial neonatal-infantile seizure (BFNIS). We describe two large families with BFNIS and novel SCN2A mutations. The families had 12 and 9 affected individuals, respectively, with phenotypes consistent with BFNIS. Two mutat...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Herlenius E,Heron SE,Grinton BE,Keay D,Scheffer IE,Mulley JC,Berkovic SF

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs) are local malformations of the human neocortex and a leading cause of medically intractable epilepsy. FCDs are characterized by local architectural disturbances of the neocortex and often by a blurred gray-white matter boundary indicating abnormal white matter myelination. We...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Donkels C,Peters M,Fariña Núñez MT,Nakagawa JM,Kirsch M,Vlachos A,Scheiwe C,Schulze-Bonhage A,Prinz M,Beck J,Haas CA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Most people in the world with epilepsy are untreated with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). In some developing countries, this is because treatment facilities are unavailable or difficult to access. It has even been suggested that indigenous health systems threaten the prospect of the global control of epilepsy with ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Pal DK,Das T,Sengupta S,Chaudhury G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this work is to study, by means of computational simulations, the induction and sustaining of nonsynaptic epileptiform activity. METHODS:The computational model consists of a network of cellular bodies of neurons and glial cells connected to a three-dimensional (3D) network of juxtaposed extracellul...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： de Almeida AC,Rodrigues AM,Scorza FA,Cavalheiro EA,Teixeira HZ,Duarte MA,Silveira GA,Arruda EZ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Originally derived from a Wistar rat strain, a proportion of which displayed spontaneous absence-type seizures, Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg (GAERS) represent the most widely utilized animal model of genetic generalized epilepsy. Here we compare the seizure, behavioral, and brain morphometric...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Powell KL,Tang H,Ng C,Guillemain I,Dieuset G,Dezsi G,Çarçak N,Onat F,Martin B,O'Brien TJ,Depaulis A,Jones NC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the relationship of age of onset of epilepsy, chronological age at time of operation, and adequacy of preoperative memory performance to pre- to postoperative verbal memory decline. Patients who underwent left (n = 50) or right (n = 51) anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) were administered tests of verbal ep...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hermann BP,Seidenberg M,Haltiner A,Wyler AR

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory (WPSI) was used to evaluate the relative extent of psychosocial problems in 379 adults with epilepsy, having differing levels of intelligence and neuropsychological impairment. In general, there were more psychosocial problems when abilities were decreased. Two new scales ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Dodrill CB

更新日期：1983-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We conducted clinical testing of an automated Bayesian machine learning algorithm (Epilepsy Seizure Assessment Tool [EpiSAT]) for outpatient seizure risk assessment using seizure counting data, and validated performance against specialized epilepsy clinician experts. METHODS:We conducted a prospective longit...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Chiang S,Goldenholz DM,Moss R,Rao VR,Haneef Z,Theodore WH,Kleen JK,Gavvala J,Vannucci M,Stern JM

更新日期：2020-01-01 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:This study evaluated topiramate (TPM) antagonism of glutamate receptors activated by kainate. METHODS:The ability of TPM (3-30 microM) to attenuate kainate (300 microM)-activated cobalt (Co2+) flux through nonselective cation channels permeable to Co2+, Mn2+, and Ca2+ into cultured cerebellar granule neurons [...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Skradski S,White HS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report identical twins with supernumerary ring chromosome 19 mosaicism, who had severe refractory epilepsy at an early age. The epilepsy was dominated largely by severe life-threatening tonic seizures. Both twins died, likely as a consequence of their severe epilepsy. They displayed no dysmorphic features. Eight ca...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Shahwan A,Green AJ,Carey A,Stallings RL,O'Flaherty OC,King MD

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In developed countries, the incidence of epilepsy is 50-100 cases per 100,000 population per year and the prevalence is approximately 5 to 8 cases per 1,000 population. Epilepsy is by far the most prevalent serious neurologic condition. Mortality rates in epilepsy are two to four times those found in matched nonepilep...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Shorvon SD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultimate treatment goal in epilepsy therapy is always freedom from seizures with as few treatment adverse effects as possible. If seizures persist with the first monotherapy, alternative monotherapy with another antiepileptic drug (AED) should be considered. Continuing seizures should lead to a reevaluation of dif...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ben-Menachem E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Adult epilepsy studies have demonstrated cerebral and cerebellar volume reduction beyond the epileptogenic zone, correlating this with an inferior surgical outcome. We determined whether brain volumes were reduced in childhood epilepsy and the significance of this. METHODS:Cerebral, cerebellar, and hippocampal...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lawson JA,Vogrin S,Bleasel AF,Cook MJ,Bye AM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the Neuropsychological Battery for Epilepsy is presented. The tests are designed to be helpful in the evaluation of adult epileptics. The battery consists of General Measures which include tests in the areas of intellectual functioning, emotional status, and lateral dominance. The development of a s...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Dodrill CB

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptomatic occipital lobe epilepsy is increasingly recognized among patients with partial-onset seizures. Although traditional clinical and electroencephalographic criteria had defined occipital lobe epilepsy in the past, new neuroimaging techniques and the recognition of specific syndromes associated with occipital ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kuzniecky R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a randomized parallel group study design, we compared the cognit ive effects of carbamazepine (CBZ), phenobarbital (PB), and valproate (VPA) in children with epilepsy. Seventy-three children with newly diagnosed epilepsy were tested with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), Bender-Gesta...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Chen YJ,Kang WM,So WC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of idiopathic/cryptogenic epilepsy and isolated unprovoked seizures has been relatively stable in the population of Rochester, Minnesota, for the 50-year period 1935 through 1984. In each decade, the age-specific rates exhibited a consistent U-shaped pattern of decreasing rates from infancy to age 40-49 ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Annegers JF,Hauser WA,Lee JR,Rocca WA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate brain electrical activity in Q54 mice that display spontaneous seizures because of a gain-of-function mutation of the Scn2a sodium channel gene, and to evaluate the efficacy of low frequency deep brain stimulation (DBS) for seizure frequency reduction. METHODS:Electroencephalography (EEG), elect...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kile KB,Tian N,Durand DM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies have found that affected individuals who believe the cause of their disorder is genetic may react in various ways, including optimism for improved treatments and pessimism due to perceived permanence of the condition. This study assessed the psychosocial impact of genetic attribution among people with...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Garofalo DC,Sorge ST,Hesdorffer DC,Winawer MR,Phelan JC,Chung WK,Ottman R

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical presentation of 366 children with rolandic spikes was examined to determine whether the presence of a temporal-frontal dipole field is associated with a lower incidence of clinical abnormality. Comparisons were made between the clinical presentation of 99 children with temporal-frontal dipole discharges v...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gregory DL,Wong PK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To present new information on the semiology and short-term evolution of seizures associated with primary brain tumors (PBTs) in a prospective study. METHODS:This study is a section of the PERNO study--Project of Emilia Romagna Region on Neuro-Oncology, the main aim of which is to collect prospectively all case...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Michelucci R,Pasini E,Meletti S,Fallica E,Rizzi R,Florindo I,Chiari A,Monetti C,Cremonini AM,Forlivesi S,Albani F,Baruzzi A,PERNO Study Group.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature dealing with the convulsant effects of the antidepressant drugs of the non-monoamine oxidase inhibitor variety is reviews. It is concluded that most of these drugs do lower the seizure threshold and may precipitate seizures even at normal therapeutic doses. The pathophysiology of antidepressant-induced ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Trimble M

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00