Testing for minimal consciousness in complex partial and generalized tonic-clonic seizures.

abstract：PURPOSE:We determined the prevalence of oral disorders and the dental treatment needs of outpatients with epilepsy. METHODS:A questionnaire was administered to 56 consecutive patients (35 males, 21 females) presenting to an outpatient clinic. All patients underwent dental examinations. The clinical and diagnostic feat...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ogunbodede EO,Adamolekun B,Akintomide AO

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of seizures at specific times of the day has been consistently observed for centuries in individuals with epilepsy. Electrophysiological recordings provide evidence that seizures have a higher probability of occurring at a given time during the night and day cycle in individuals with epilepsy here refer...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bernard C

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine if there are differences in the incidence of seizure disorders between the children of the indigenous and immigrant (predominantly Pakistani) populations of Bradford, United Kingdom. Annual incidence rates per 100,000 for new onset seizures were calculated along with Townsend deprivation scores....

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hamdy NA,Ginby D,Feltbower R,Ferrie CD

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a well-known clinical entity caused by partial deletion of the short arm of one chromosome 4 (4p- syndrome). Seizures occur in almost all the cases, but studies on the electroclinical disorder and its evolution are still scarce. We present a longitudinal study of the electro...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Battaglia D,Zampino G,Zollino M,Mariotti P,Acquafondata C,Lettori D,Pane M,Vasta I,Neri G,Dravet C,Guzzetta F

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Some evidence suggests that levetiracetam (LEV) possesses antiepileptogenic characteristics. The purpose of this study was to investigate the time course of seizure protection by LEV compared with that of phenytoin (PHT), phenobarbital (PB), valproate (VPA), and carbamazepine (CBZ) in the spontaneously epilepti...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ji-qun C,Ishihara K,Nagayama T,Serikawa T,Sasa M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In one third of patients, seizures remain after epilepsy surgery, meaning that improved preoperative evaluation methods are needed to identify the epileptogenic zone. A potential framework for such a method is network theory, as it can be applied to noninvasive recordings, even in the absence of epileptiform ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Nissen IA,Stam CJ,Reijneveld JC,van Straaten IE,Hendriks EJ,Baayen JC,De Witt Hamer PC,Idema S,Hillebrand A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using transhemispheric transfer and post-transfer interference as specific measures, the relationship between chemical and electrical kindling at the amygdala (AM) in rats was examined. Chemical kindling was accomplished by repeated injections of a subconvulsive dose of combined L-glutamate (GLU) and L-aspartate (ASP)...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mori N,Wada JA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the natural history and mortality of chronic epilepsy in an untreated prevalence cohort of people with epilepsy (PWE) in a rural area of Bolivia. METHODS:During 1994-1996 we carried out an epidemiologic survey in a sample of 9,995 subjects in the Cordillera province. At the end of the survey we ide...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Nicoletti A,Sofia V,Vitale G,Bonelli SI,Bejarano V,Bartalesi F,Tran DS,Preux PM,Zappia M,Bartoloni A

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of surgical strategies are available to deal with intractable epilepsy. These are resective operations, consisting of the removal of a focus or a discrete lesion, gross removal of malfunctioning brain, and functional operations consisting of division of the pathways of propagation or of an epileptic neuronal...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Polkey CE,Binnie CD

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The predictive value of intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG) in pediatric epilepsy surgery is unknown. In a population of children undergoing ECoG followed typically by invasive extraoperative monitoring (IEM) and resection, we aimed to determine the relationship between frequent ECoG abnormalities and ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Greiner HM,Horn PS,Tenney JR,Arya R,Jain SV,Holland KD,Leach JL,Miles L,Rose DF,Fujiwara H,Mangano FT

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ictal and interictal epileptic activity was recorded for the first time by multichannel magnetoencephalography (MEG) in three patients with partial epilepsy. Pre- and intra-operative localization of the epileptogenic region was compared. The interictal epileptic activity was localized at the same region of the tempora...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Stefan H,Schneider S,Feistel H,Pawlik G,Schüler P,Abraham-Fuchs K,Schlegel T,Neubauer U,Huk WJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although the general utility of voxel-based processing of structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data for detecting occult lesions in focal epilepsy is established, many differences exist among studies, and it is unclear which processing method is preferable. The aim of this study was to compare the abil...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Martin P,Winston GP,Bartlett P,de Tisi J,Duncan JS,Focke NK

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previously we demonstrated that L-(+)-beta-hydroxybutyrate (L-BHB), acetoacetate (ACA), acetone, and dibenzylamine (DBA) were anticonvulsant in an audiogenic seizure-susceptible model, and that DBA was a bioactive contaminant identified in commercial lots of L-BHB. In the present study, we asked whether these e...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Donevan SD,White HS,Anderson GD,Rho JM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment and supervision of epileptic patients is part of specialist medicine. A possible change in the role of specialists and general practitioners in the care of these patients was explored by a questionnaire mailed to all Dutch neurologists and a random sample of general practitioners. Patients were also asked th...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rutgers MJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We report on a quantitative analysis of data from a study that acquired continuous long-term ambulatory human electroencephalography (EEG) data over extended periods. The objectives were to examine the seizure duration and interseizure interval (ISI), their relationship to each other, and the effect of these ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cook MJ,Karoly PJ,Freestone DR,Himes D,Leyde K,Berkovic S,O'Brien T,Grayden DB,Boston R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We characterized and evaluated as an animal model of epilepsy NER, a new epileptic rat strain, which was developed by inbreeding rats with spontaneous tonic-clonic seizures in a stock of Crj:Wistar. METHODS:Animals were monitored through the inbreeding course, and video-EEGs were recorded selectively. External...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Noda A,Hashizume R,Maihara T,Tomizawa Y,Ito Y,Inoue M,Kobayashi K,Asano Y,Sasa M,Serikawa T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a technique for automatic detection of epileptic spikes in electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. We used a nonlinear modeling method that enables us to detect rapidly and accurately epileptic behavior in the EEG signal. Our approach is illustrated by an application to interictal activity from a patient wit...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Diambra L

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The standard practice of switching patients to carbamazepine (CBZ) involves initiating a low dose and raising it by small increments until the desired dose is reached, to avoid intolerable adverse effects (AE). In a pilot study, a protocol using single-dose kinetic studies was developed to switch patients to CB...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kanner AM,Bourgeois BF,Hasegawa H,Hutson P

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rufinamide (RUF) is a novel antiepileptic drug considered as second-line therapy in the treatment of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs) have consisted mainly of drowsiness, irritability, vomiting, and loss of appetite. RUF is considered as a "weight-neutral" drug. We found clinically sign...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mourand I,Crespel A,Gelisse P

更新日期：2013-01-01 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: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：: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：PURPOSE:A prospective series of 643 persons with epilepsy attending a reference neurologic center in Medellín, Colombia, was examined by computed tomography (CT scan) or serology or both with the enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay (EITB) to assess the prevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis. METHODS:All ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Palacio LG,Jiménez I,Garcia HH,Jiménez ME,Sánchez JL,Noh J,Ahn L,Mora O,Giraldo M,Tsang VC

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Electroencephalographic seizures (ESs) are common in encephalopathic critically ill children, but identification requires extensive resources for continuous electroencephalographic monitoring (CEEG). In a previous study, we developed a clinical prediction rule using three clinical variables (age, acute enceph...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fung FW,Parikh DS,Jacobwitz M,Vala L,Donnelly M,Wang Z,Xiao R,Topjian AA,Abend NS

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a new antiseizure drug, retigabine (D-23129; N-(2-amino-4-[fluorobenzylamino]-phenyl) carbamic acid ethyl ester) on low-Mg2+-induced epileptiform discharges in rat in vitro. METHODS:Three types of epileptiform discharges (recurrent short discharges in t...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Armand V,Rundfeldt C,Heinemann U

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the pharmacokinetics and safety of multiple oral doses of tiagabine HCl in subjects with different degrees of hepatic impairment. METHODS:Four subjects with mild hepatic impairment, three subjects with moderate hepatic impairment, and six matched normal subjects received twice daily oral tiagabine ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lau AH,Gustavson LE,Sperelakis R,Lam NP,El-Shourbagy T,Qian JX,Layden T

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：PURPOSE:To investigate whether atypical language dominance in epilepsy patients is related to localization and type of lesions. METHODS:Four hundred and forty-five epilepsy patients received bilateral Wada testing. Language was classified as left (L), right (R), bilateral-dependent (BD, speech arrest after left and ri...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Möddel G,Lineweaver T,Schuele SU,Reinholz J,Loddenkemper T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The goal of the study was to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of persons with epilepsy (PWE) by using the short form survey 36 (SF-36), to compare it with that of a control group and to detect factors influencing it. METHODS:We collected clinical and demographic data and information on health ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mrabet H,Mrabet A,Zouari B,Ghachem R

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00