The impact of nonadherence to antiseizure drugs on seizure outcomes in an animal model of epilepsy.

abstract：:Some investigators argue that treating epilepsy with several antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) simultaneously (polytherapy) may give rise to more adverse effects than monotherapy, but this argument lacks supporting quantitative data. To reexamine this issue, we recruited a cohort of patients from the outpatients of the Speci...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lammers MW,Hekster YA,Keyser A,Meinardi H,Renier WO,van Lier H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The adenosinergic system is known to exert an inhibitory affect in the brain, and as such adenosine has been considered an endogenous anticonvulsant. Entorhinal cortex (EC) layer II neurons, which serve as the primary input to the hippocampus, are spared in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and become hyperexcitable...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hargus NJ,Jennings C,Perez-Reyes E,Bertram EH,Patel MK

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the clinical data have been equivocal in regard to the effects of clonazepam (CZP) in focal-motor seizures, an alumina gel monkey model was used to evaluate quantitatively its efficacy with respect to this seizure category. The insolubility of CZP and its short biological half-life in monkey necessitated its eva...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lockard JS,Levy RH,Congdon WC,DuCharme LL,Salonen LD

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocyte and microglial activation occurs following seizures and plays a role in epileptogenesis. However, the precise temporal and spatial response to seizures has not been fully examined. The pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy was selected to examine glial changes following seizures because morphological c...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Shapiro LA,Wang L,Ribak CE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The older antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have a variety of effects on sleep, including marked reduction in rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, slow-wave sleep (SWS), and sleep latency, and an increase in light sleep. The effects of the newer AEDs on sleep are unknown. Our purpose was to study the effect of gabapentin (...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Foldvary-Schaefer N,De Leon Sanchez I,Karafa M,Mascha E,Dinner D,Morris HH

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Nitric oxide (NO), a short-lived radical synthesized from L-arginine by activation of the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS), has been implicated in the pathophysiology of epilepsy by some investigators. However, the current data about NO and NOS in epilepsy are controversial and are derived only from animal mo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： González-Hernández T,García-Marín V,Pérez-Delgado MM,González-González ML,Rancel-Torres N,González-Feria L

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Vigabatrin (VGB) and lamotrigine (LTG) are two new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) with different mechanisms of action for treatment of refractory epilepsies. Previous reports have indicated efficacy of both drugs in a number of epileptic syndromes. METHODS:We compared these new AEDs drugs to determine their respec...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bélanger S,Coulombe G,Carmant L

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate safety and tolerability of ketogenic diet (KGD) and valproate (VPA) cotherapy in the treatment of intractable seizures. METHODS:The patient records of children who underwent KGD initiation at the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children from February 2002 to September 2004 were retrospectively a...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lyczkowski DA,Pfeifer HH,Ghosh S,Thiele EA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We analyzed a large group of patients investigated for suspected seizures to test whether gender or side are important factors in the origins of hippocampal sclerosis (HS). METHODS:We studied 996 consecutive patients (48% men, 52% women) by using standard hippocampal T2-relaxometry methods. RESULTS:HS was ass...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Briellmann RS,Jackson GD,Mitchell LA,Fitt GJ,Kim SE,Berkovic SF

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the neurochemical pattern in patients with benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME/FAME), an inherited form of myoclonic epilepsy, by proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS). METHODS:Eleven BAFME patients from three families showing linkage to 2p11.1-q12.2 were compared wi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Striano P,Caranci F,Di Benedetto R,Tortora F,Zara F,Striano S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folic acid deficient diet reduces the duration and severity of intravenous megimide seizures in the rat after 6 months of diet. Plasma and serum folate levels are strongly reduced after that period. The difference between Lactobacillus casei and Streptococcus faecalis activity in brain show a slight, but not significa...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hommes OR,ten Berge EJ,Jansen MJ,Kok JC

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is noninvasive and may be readily combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Attention has focussed on proton (1H) and phosphorus (31P) MRS, and studies have been undertaken by using single voxels or many voxels simultaneously (chemical-shift imaging, magnetic resonance spect...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Duncan JS

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) is associated with mild cognitive deficits, especially language impairment. This study aimed to clarify whether children with BECTS with left- or right-hemispheric, or bilateral focus have specific neuropsychological language deficits when compared to healthy c...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Datta AN,Oser N,Bauder F,Maier O,Martin F,Ramelli GP,Steinlin M,Weber P,Penner IK

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To address concerns about possible increases in rates of sudden unexplained death (SUD) after use of new anticonvulsants, more information on the rate of SUD among subjects with refractory epilepsy is needed to provide a comparison. METHODS:We conducted a study to estimate the incidence of SUD among subjects y...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Derby LE,Tennis P,Jick H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a young man, Graham Greene (1904-1991) experienced several episodes of loss of consciousness, which were confidently diagnosed as epilepsy by a Harley Street specialist who saw him on two occasions during the 1920s. The diagnosis was initially concealed from him by his family and the specialist, but when it was rev...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Reynolds EH

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forebrain seizures were kindled in rats by daily electrical stimulation of the amygdala. Genetically epilepsy-prone rats scoring 9 (GEPR-9s) on the seizure severity scale during audiogenic seizure (AGS) screening ("brainstem seizure-experienced") required fewer stimulations to achieve fully kindled seizures (forelimb ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Coffey LL,Reith ME,Chen NH,Mishra PK,Jobe PC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Valproate (VPA) is an extensively used drug in the therapy of epilepsies. One of the most frequently reported side effects of VPA is hemorrhagic diathesis. Some authors emphasized the decreased platelet count as the basis of VPA-induced hemorrhagic diathesis, but some reports suggested that a significant propor...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kis B,Szupera Z,Mezei Z,Gecse A,Telegdy G,Vécsei L

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) it remains an unresolved issue whether the interictal decrease in N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) detected by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) reflects the epilepsy-associated loss of hippocampal pyramidal neurons or metabolic dysfunction. METHODS...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Vielhaber S,Niessen HG,Debska-Vielhaber G,Kudin AP,Wellmer J,Kaufmann J,Schönfeld MA,Fendrich R,Willker W,Leibfritz D,Schramm J,Elger CE,Heinze HJ,Kunz WS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A major limitation of intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) is recording from a confined region. This may falsely localize seizure onset if the distinction between ictal onset zone, proximity, and spread is unclear, or if the ictal rhythm is not clearly identified. Delineation of the ictal onset zone is ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Singh S,Sandy S,Wiebe S

更新日期：2015-10-01 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:Refractory status epilepticus (RSE) is the persistence of seizure activity despite appropriate therapy; it is treated with high-dose suppressive anesthetic agents. We report here the outcome of RSE in a large series of children. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed cases of RSE treated at Children's Hospital, B...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sahin M,Menache CC,Holmes GL,Riviello JJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medically intractable tonic and atonic seizures may be responsive to either vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) or corpus callosum section. VNS has been shown to be effective and is associated with very low morbidity. Callosotomy is a more ambitious procedure, with a higher risk of complications but greater likelihood of se...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rosenfeld WE,Roberts DW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Commission on Classification and Terminology and the Commission on Epidemiology of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) have charged a Task Force to revise concepts, definition, and classification of status epilepticus (SE). The proposed new definition of SE is as follows: Status epilepticus is a condi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Trinka E,Cock H,Hesdorffer D,Rossetti AO,Scheffer IE,Shinnar S,Shorvon S,Lowenstein DH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter covers the syndromes of benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS), nonlesional focal epilepsy in otherwise normal children (NLFN), and the genetic generalized epilepsies. BECTS is an epilepsy syndrome that always enters terminal remission before the general age of a planned transition of adolesce...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Camfield CS,Berg A,Stephani U,Wirrell EC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive and behavioral impairments are found more often among epileptic children than among their peers. The cause of these impairments is multifactorial. Identifying the relative contribution of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) to these problems has been the object of a large number of clinical investigations. This area ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bourgeois BF

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The cardiac component of risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) and alterations in cardiac risk by vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) are not well understood. We determined changes in T-wave alternans (TWA), a proven noninvasive marker of risk for sudden cardiac death in patients with cardiovascular ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Schomer AC,Nearing BD,Schachter SC,Verrier RL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was the isobolographic evaluation of the interactions between the novel antiepileptic drug (AED) gabapentin (GBP) and a number of other AEDs against electroconvulsion-induced convulsions in mice. METHODS:Electroconvulsions were produced by means of an alternating current (ear-clip e...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Borowicz KK,Swiader M,Luszczki J,Czuczwar SJ

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Audiogenic seizure-prone mice (DBA/2J) were exposed to a broad band noise source. A reproducible response consisting of wild run, clonus, and tonic stages resulted in all mice. Layers 1 and pyramidal from the parietal cortex and the molecular and Purkinje cell-rich layers from the cerebellar vermis were separately ana...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： McCandless DW,Schwartzenburg FC Jr

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate immediate recall and learning in epileptic patients, four tests were chosen: Wechsler's memory span for digits, graphic reproduction of geometric figures from the Wechsler Memory Scale, learning of a list of words from the Rey Memory Scale, and recognition of these words. These tests were performe...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Loiseau P,Strube E,Broustet D,Battellochi S,Gomeni C,Morselli PL

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal afterdischarges can induce increased Purkinje cell activity that characteristically shows a pronounced acceleration during the period of the afterdischarges. Increased Purkinje cell activity may continue for many seconds after termination of the hippocampal activity. Typical frequency histograms are presen...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mitra J,Snider RS

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00