Indications and methodology for video-electroencephalographic studies in the epilepsy monitoring unit.

abstract：PURPOSE:Despite the reported diagnostic value of the intracarotid amobarbital procedure (IAP) or "Wada test" for determining hemispheric lateralization and memory functioning, it has never undergone formal reliability testing because a prospective test-retest study design is neither feasible nor ethical. However, some ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Whitman LA,Morrison CE,Becske T,Barr WB,Carlson C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The need for alternative pharmacologic strategies in treatment of epilepsies is pressing for about 30% of patients with epilepsy who do not experience satisfactory seizure control with present treatments. In temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) even up to 80% of patients are pharmacoresistant, and surgical resection ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Klaft ZJ,Hollnagel JO,Salar S,Calişkan G,Schulz SB,Schneider UC,Horn P,Koch A,Holtkamp M,Gabriel S,Gerevich Z,Heinemann U

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous neuroimaging studies provide growing evidence that patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) have both structural and functional abnormalities of the thalamus and frontal lobe gray matter. However, limited data are available regarding the issue of white matter (WM) involvement, making the microst...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kim JH,Suh SI,Park SY,Seo WK,Koh I,Koh SB,Seol HY

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tendency for four strains of parathyroidectomized (PTx) rats to convulse after pinealectomy (Px) was observed in this experiment; telencephalic serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine were examined to note any correlation between amines and convulsions. The strains of rats tested were Sprague-Dawley, Wistar, Long-...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Philo R,Reiter RJ

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of gabapentin (Neurontin; GBP) as add-on therapy for refractory partial seizures in paediatric patients aged 3-12 years. METHODS:After a 6-week baseline period, 247 patients (54 centres) entered a 12-week double-blind phase and were randomized to receive either GBP (t.i.d., ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Appleton R,Fichtner K,LaMoreaux L,Alexander J,Halsall G,Murray G,Garofalo E

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sotos syndrome (SS) is an overgrowth syndrome characterized by typical facial appearance, learning disability, and macrocephaly as cardinal diagnostic features. Febrile (FS) and afebrile seizures are reported in 9-50% of cases. There is no evidence that patients with SS and FS later develop epilepsy, and no studies ha...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Nicita F,Ruggieri M,Polizzi A,Mauceri L,Salpietro V,Briuglia S,Papetti L,Ursitti F,Grosso S,Tarani L,Segni M,Savasta S,Parisi P,Verrotti A,Spalice A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Inhibition of microRNA-134 by an oligonucleotide antagomir (ant-134) has been shown to produce powerful antiseizure effects in multiple models of epilepsy. However, to successfully translate the treatment to the clinic, it is important to assess what potential adverse effects it may have on naive brain tissue...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Morris G,Brennan GP,Reschke CR,Henshall DC,Schorge S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The longstanding dichotomy between the concepts of "focal" and "primary generalized" epilepsy has become increasingly blurred, raising fundamental questions about the nature of ictal onset in localized brain regions versus large-scale brain networks. We hypothesize that whether an EEG discharge appears focal or genera...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Terry JR,Benjamin O,Richardson MP

更新日期：2012-09-01 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:In 1992, the International Lamotrigine Pregnancy Registry was initiated to enroll prospectively and to monitor pregnancies exposed to lamotrigine (LTG) for the occurrence of major birth defects. This study presents results as of September 2001 on 168 outcomes exposed to LTG monotherapy and 166 outcomes after pr...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tennis P,Eldridge RR,International Lamotrigine Pregnancy Registry Scientific Advisory Committee.

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective longitudinal self-controlled study of 124 adult patients treated with resective surgery for medically uncontrolled partial epilepsy from 1949 to 1988. Approximately 65% of the patients experienced > 95% reduction in seizure frequency, and 75% had worthwhile improvement of at least 75% seiz...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Guldvog B,Løyning Y,Hauglie-Hanssen E,Flood S,Bjørnaes H

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to examine the impact of clinical variables, particularly age at onset of epilepsy, on intellectual function in a group of children with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS:We reviewed the preoperative neuropsychological test results of 79 children with unilateral TLE who subsequent...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cormack F,Cross JH,Isaacs E,Harkness W,Wright I,Vargha-Khadem F,Baldeweg T

更新日期：2007-01-01 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:To determine the cerebral electroencephalography (EEG) substrates of scalp EEG seizure patterns, such as source area and synchrony, and in so doing assess the limitations of scalp seizure recording in the localization of seizure onset zones in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. METHODS:We recorded simultane...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tao JX,Baldwin M,Ray A,Hawes-Ebersole S,Ebersole JS

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We studied the effect of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) on seizure reduction in patients with intractable epilepsy with bilateral independent temporal lobe foci. METHODS:Ten patients who met the criterion of the presence of two distinctive clinical and ictal EEG seizure patterns were identified and followed up ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Alsaadi TM,Laxer KD,Barbaro NM,Marks WJ Jr,Garcia PA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a rare epileptic encephalopathy with a peak age of onset of 3-5 years of age. Reported prevalence rates for LGS vary widely from 1-10% of all childhood epilepsies. Incidence rates are much lower. LGS is characterized by intractable, multiple, generalized seizure types and an interictal...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Camfield PR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Compelling evidence supports the presence of P450 enzymes (CYPs) in the central nervous system (CNS). However, little information is available on the localization and function of CYPs in the drug-resistant epileptic brain. We have evaluated the pattern of expression of the specific enzyme CYP3A4 and studied its...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ghosh C,Marchi N,Desai NK,Puvenna V,Hossain M,Gonzalez-Martinez J,Alexopoulos AV,Janigro D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West syndrome consists of infantile spasms, hypsarrhythmia, and developmental arrest. Most patients remain mentally retarded and many develop Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Using homozygosity mapping followed by exome sequencing we identified an ST3GAL3 mutation in three infants with West syndrome. ST3GAL3 encodes a sialylt...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Edvardson S,Baumann AM,Mühlenhoff M,Stephan O,Kuss AW,Shaag A,He L,Zenvirt S,Tanzi R,Gerardy-Schahn R,Elpeleg O

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute effects of valproate (200 and 400 mg/kg), ethosuximide (200 and 400 mg/kg), phenytoin (25 and 50 mg/kg), and pentobarbital (30 and 60 mg/kg) on cerebral energy metabolism of rats were studied by measuring the cerebral content of energy metabolites and by evaluating the rate of metabolite utilization followin...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gueldry S,Rochette L,Bralet J

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Standard mortality ratio for suicide in patients with epilepsy is three times higher than in the general population, and such a risk remains high even after adjusting for clinical and socioeconomic factors. It is thus important to have suitable screening instruments and to implement care pathways for suicide ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mula M,McGonigal A,Micoulaud-Franchi JA,May TW,Labudda K,Brandt C

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined postoperative changes in the memory function of 68 people with unilateral hippocampal sclerosis (HS) who underwent epilepsy surgery and had no previous clinical memory impairments. One in four with right HS (RHS) and one in five with left HS (LHS) in our sample of 323 people with unilateral HS performed wi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Baxendale S,Thompson PJ,Sander JW

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was used to identify specific in situ metabolic markers for seizures and seizure-induced neuronal damage. Kainic acid (KA)-induced seizures lead to histopathologic changes in rat brain. The protective effect of cycloheximide treatment against neuronal damage caused b...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Najm IM,Wang Y,Shedid D,Lüders HO,Ng TC,Comair YG

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first description of epileptic encephalopathies dates back to Dr. West who, in 1857, described the syndrome that took his name. In addition to West syndrome, in the last century other epileptic syndromes entered into the chapter of epileptic encephalopathies. Henry Gastaut has the virtue of having created the mode...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Capovilla G,Wolf P,Beccaria F,Avanzini G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To induce status epilepticus (SE) followed by the subsequent onset of spontaneous recurrent seizures, thus characterizing a new model of temporal lobe epilepsy in a nonhuman primate. METHODS:Male and female marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) (n = 18), ages between 2 and 8 years, were injected with domoic acid (0.5...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Perez-Mendes P,Cinini SM,Medeiros MA,Tufik S,Mello LE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (SE) accounts for approximately one-quarter of all cases of SE. The actual proportion may be higher because patients with nonconvulsive SE may go unidentified. This disorder may be divided into generalized (absence) or partial (complex partial) forms. Nonconvulsive SE may occur de novo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cascino GD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the prevalence of epilepsy and seizures in the Navajo. METHODS:We studied 226,496 Navajo residing in the Navajo Reservation who had at least one medical encounter between October 1, 1998 and September 30, 2002. We ascertained and confirmed cases in two phases. First, we identified patients with In...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Parko K,Thurman DJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenobarbital (phenobarbitone) was first used as an antiepileptic drug 100 years ago, in 1912. This article tells the story of the discovery of its antiepileptic action, its early development, and the subsequent course of its clinical use over the 100-year period. The side effects, pharmacokinetics, and misuse of barb...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Yasiry Z,Shorvon SD

更新日期：2012-12-01 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 describe the natural history of electroencephalography (EEG) changes in patients with benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) over 1 year. METHODS:Centrotemporal spikes were visually evaluated based on 24-h ambulatory EEG studies to determine the total, left, right, and bilateral centrotemporal...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tenney JR,Glauser T,Altaye M,Szaflarski JP,Spencer C,Morita D,Vannest J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00