The medical treatment of epilepsy in the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

abstract：:Status epilepticus (SE) is the most extreme form of epilepsy. It describes a prolonged seizure that may occur in patients with previous epilepsy or in acute disorders of the central nervous system. It is one of the most common neurologic emergencies, with an incidence of up to 41 per 100,000 per year and an estimated ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Trinka E,Höfler J,Zerbs A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The present study was undertaken to clarify the effects of (RS)-1-aminoindan-1,5-dicarboxylic acid (AIDA), a metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) 1 antagonist, (2R,4R)-4-aminopyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylate ((2R,4R)-APDC), a mGluR2/3 agonist, and L-(+)-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (L-AP4), a mGluR4/8 agonis...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Watanabe Y,Kaida Y,Fukuhara S,Takechi K,Uehara T,Kamei C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the effects of carbamazepine (CBZ) on sleep despite the relationship between sleep and epilepsy and the common clinical use of CBZ. As part of a larger study on sleep and interictal activity in kindled cats, we performed sleep recordings in 11 normal cats before and after acute administration of ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gigli GL,Gotman J,Thomas ST

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of antiepileptic drugs have been investigated extensively during the last two decades. It has become evident that the therapeutic management of epileptic patients would be significantly improved with the elimination of the drawbacks associated with existing antiepileptic drugs. Based on the inform...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Levy RH,Kerr BM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perampanel is an adjunctive treatment for epilepsy that works through the direct inhibition of AMPA receptors. The same molecular mechanism has recently been shown for a fatty acid, decanoic acid, prescribed in the medium chain triglyceride ketogenic diet for the treatment of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. Bec...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Augustin K,Williams S,Cunningham M,Devlin AM,Friedrich M,Jayasekera A,Hussain MA,Holliman D,Mitchell P,Jenkins A,Chen PE,Walker MC,Williams RSB

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Interictal spikes are a characteristic feature of invasive electroencephalography (EEG) recordings in children with refractory epilepsy. Spikes frequently co-occur across multiple brain regions with discernable latencies, suggesting that spikes can propagate through distributed neural networks. The purpose of...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tomlinson SB,Wong JN,Conrad EC,Kennedy BC,Marsh ED

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) and homovanillic acid (HVA) were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) obtained from febrile children subdivided according to the presence or absence of convulsions. Lumbar puncture was made either early (mean time 2 h) or late...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Giroud M,Dumas R,Dauvergne M,D'Athis P,Rochette L,Beley A,Bralet J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Nine patients affected by schizencephaly were analyzed, and the epileptologic findings prospectively studied, to define the relations between the anatomic brain malformations and clinical outcome. METHODS:The schizencephaly was diagnosed by means of magnetic resonance imaging (eight cases) or computed tomograp...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Granata T,Battaglia G,D'Incerti L,Franceschetti S,Spreafico R,Battino D,Savoiardo M,Avanzini G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The pineal hormone melatonin has been shown to enhance hippocampal excitability. We therefore investigated whether inactivation of hippocampal melatonin receptors affects behavioral seizures. METHODS:Intrahippocampal infusions were performed in rats to study the effect of different melatonin receptor antagonis...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Stewart LS,Leung LS

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) was injected into rats (30 or 35 mg/kg) and guinea pigs (40 or 45 mg/kg) daily or every second day. A progressive development of seizure activity after this treatment was observed. Doses ineffective after the first injection induced tonic seizures after 20 injections. Both kinds of treated anim...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Diehl RG,Smialowski A,Gotwo T

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Because several reports have described the relation between epilepsy and cardiac arrhythmias and suggest that changes in autonomic neural control of the heart could be involved in the pathogenesis of sudden unexplained death in patients with epilepsy, the aim of this study was to evaluate cardiac function in pa...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Massetani R,Strata G,Galli R,Gori S,Gneri C,Limbruno U,Di Santo D,Mariani M,Murri L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal epilepsy can present with a rapidly progressing course of intractable epilepsy in children. We present a typical example of such a patient with focal seizures due to a frontal lobe cortical lesion of developmental origin. MRI and SPECT revealed abnormalities in the right frontal lobe. Surgical resection resulted...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kuzniecky R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain slices incubated with glucose have provided most of our knowledge on cellular, synaptic, and network driven mechanisms. It has been recently suggested that γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) excites neonatal neurons in conventional glucose-perfused slices but not when ketone bodies metabolites, pyruvate, and/or lactate ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ben-Ari Y,Tyzio R,Nehlig A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of seizures on the hypocretin/orexin system have not yet been investigated in epileptic patients. The present study aimed to assay hypocretin-1 in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients after generalized tonic-clonic (GTC) seizures. Study groups consisted of 21 patients after GTC seizures and 19 control...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rejdak K,Papuć E,Grieb P,Stelmasiak Z

更新日期：2009-06-01 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:We wished to determine the effects of seizure type, age at onset, and family history of epilepsy on risk of spontaneous abortion in the pregnancies of adults with idiopathic/cryptogenic epilepsy. METHODS:We examined pregnancy outcomes in 812 adults with idiopathic/cryptogenic epilepsy who had ever had or fathe...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Schupf N,Ottman R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first part of this essay, the "common wisdom" about Putnam and Merritt's contributions to the treatment of epilepsy was summarized (Rowland, 1982). Based on the history that has been presented here, how true are these "wisdoms"? Putnam and Merritt did devise "a simple and reliable method to test drugs of antico...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Friedlander WJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four groups of pregnant rats were used to study the effects of dietary supplements of folic acid (FA) alone or a mixture of FA, vitamins (Vit), and amino acids (AA) on the teratogenic effects of phenytoin (PHT). Groups A, B, and C received intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections of high-dose (75 mg/kg/day) phenytoin (PHT) b...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Zhu MX,Zhou SS

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic models for complex diseases frequently assume that genetic factors play a greater role in severe forms than in mild forms of disease. This study examined familial aggregation of epilepsy in relation to two measures of severity: duration and remission. The study population comprised 358 offspring born in Roches...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ottman R,Annegers JF,Kurland LT

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping studies from our laboratory identified a 6.6 Mb segment of distal chromosome 1 that contains a gene (or genes) having a strong influence on the difference in seizure susceptibility between C57BL/6 (B6) and DBA/2 (D2) mice. A gene transfer strategy involving a bacte...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ferraro TN,Golden GT,Dahl JP,Smith GG,Schwebel CL,MacDonald R,Lohoff FW,Berrettini WH,Buono RJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is characterized by chest pain, dyspnea, electrocardiographic changes resembling an acute coronary syndrome, and transient wall-motion abnormalities without identifiable coronary culprit lesion explaining the wall-motion abnormality. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy occurs frequently after emotional o...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Stöllberger C,Wegner C,Finsterer J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ictal asystole (IA) and ictal bradycardia (IB) are rare autonomic symptoms during epileptic seizures and may be potentially life-threatening. Guidelines for the care of these patients are missing. The aim of this multicenter study was to evaluate the management and long-term outcome in patients with IA and IB. ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Strzelczyk A,Cenusa M,Bauer S,Hamer HM,Mothersill IW,Grunwald T,Hillenbrand B,Ebner A,Steinhoff BJ,Krämer G,Rosenow F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge of patients with epilepsy about their own condition is poor, and thus the need for educational programs for people with epilepsy has long been recognized. However, no such programs have been established in their routine care. The Modular Service Package Epilepsy (MOSES) now tries to fill this gap for pat...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ried S,Specht U,Thorbecke R,Goecke K,Wohlfarth R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical treatment of seizure disorders is a complex process, requiring extensive interaction and co-operation between physician and patient. The physician must have an accurate diagnosis of the patient's illness and a comprehensive understanding of seizures and seizure disorders. The physician must consider specif...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ferrendelli JA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Felbamate (2-phenyl-1,3-propanediol dicarbamate), phenytoin, phenobarbital, ethosuximide, and valproate were evaluated in mice and rats with a battery of well-standardized anticonvulsant test procedures. The results obtained indicate that felbamate exhibits a wider range of experimental anticonvulsant activity than ei...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Swinyard EA,Sofia RD,Kupferberg HJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological evaluation differs from other methods used to localize cerebral lesions in that it analyzes cognitive function. Tests sample widely among cognitive abilities, contrasting language proficiency with visuospatial skills. A thorough assessment of memory is crucial in the investigation because of the pro...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jones-Gotman M

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Management of epilepsy in the elderly requires understanding of the unique biochemical and pharmacologic characteristics of this patient population. Accurate assessment of seizures and identification of epilepsy syndromes, thorough neurologic assessment to define etiology, and comprehensive evaluation of the patient's...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Willmore LJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (CEOP) is characterised by ictal visual hallucinations and occipital epileptiform activity on interictal EEG. A variant has been described with nonvisual symptoms including tonic head and eye deviation, vomiting, and episodes of partial status epilepticus. We fully do...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ferrie CD,Beaumanoir A,Guerrini R,Kivity S,Vigevano F,Takaishi Y,Watanabe K,Mira L,Capizzi G,Costa P,Valseriati D,Grioni D,Lerman P,Ricci S,Vigliano P,Goumas-Kartalas A,Hashimoto K,Robinson RO,Panayiotopoulos CP

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-eight patients with temporal lobe type seizures were precisely matched for age, sex, and Wechsler I.Q. levels with patients suffering from other seizure types. Statistically significant differences were established between the groups in regard to treatment response, etiologies, and behavioral variables. Furthe...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rodin EA,Katz M,Lennox K

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00