Bilateral hippocampal atrophy in medial temporal lobe epilepsy.

abstract：PURPOSE:To clarify the role of hippocampal sclerosis (HS) in developing psychiatric and cognitive adverse events during therapy with topiramate (TPM) in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS:We analyzed the data of 70 patients with TLE and HS and 128 patients with cryptogenic TLE matched for age, sex, st...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mula M,Trimble MR,Sander JW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety, tolerability, and efficacy of gabapentin as adjunctive therapy were assessed in epileptic patients who had experienced up to four complex partial seizures per month while receiving phenytoin and/or carbamazepine. This was a multicenter, open-label prospective study, with the treatment period lasting 20 wee...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bruni J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the anticonvulsant profile and behavioral toxicity of rufinamide in animal seizure models compared to the established antiepileptic drugs (AEDs): phenytoin, phenobarbital, valproate, and ethosuximide, or vehicle. METHODS:In acute studies of anticonvulsant efficacy, the AEDs were administered via or...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： White HS,Franklin MR,Kupferberg HJ,Schmutz M,Stables JP,Wolf HH

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing use of intensive video-EEG monitoring, publications concerning pseudoepileptic seizures have burgeoned, but without clarification concerning differing psychopathologic mechanisms and without distinction of different syndromic varieties. The frequent concurrence of pseudoepileptic and epileptic seizures...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ozkara C,Dreifuss FE

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:We set out to review the extent to which molecular karyotyping has overtaken conventional cytogenetics in applications related to epilepsy. Multiplex ligase-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) targeted to predetermined regions such as SCN1A and KCNQ2 has been effectively applied over the last half a decade, and oligo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mulley JC,Mefford HC

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the effects of high-frequency electrical stimulation (HFS) in both ventral hippocampi, alone and combined with a subeffective dose of antiepileptic drugs, during the status epilepticus (SE) induced by lithium-pilocarpine (LP). METHODS:Male Wistar rats, stereotactically implanted in both ventral hip...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cuellar-Herrera M,Peña F,Alcantara-Gonzalez D,Neri-Bazan L,Rocha L

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission computed tomography (FDG-PET) hypometabolism is important for surgical planning in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), but its significance remains unclear in patients who do not have evidence of mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： LoPinto-Khoury C,Sperling MR,Skidmore C,Nei M,Evans J,Sharan A,Mintzer S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Rasmussen encephalitis with bilateral involvement and onset at age 2 years is reviewed. Rasmussen encephalitis is a rare progressive disease that causes intractable seizures, cognitive decline, and inflammatory changes in the brain. The neurologic involvement is characteristically unilateral. Bilateral invol...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tobias SM,Robitaille Y,Hickey WF,Rhodes CH,Nordgren R,Andermann F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Development of novel therapies for temporal lobe epilepsy is hindered by a lack of models suitable for drug screening. While testing the hypothesis that "inhibiting inhibitory neurons" was sufficient to induce seizures, it was discovered that a mild electrical kindling protocol of VGAT-Cre mice led to spontan...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Straub J,Gawda A,Ravichandran P,McGrew B,Nylund E,Kang J,Burke C,Vitko I,Scott M,Williamson J,Joshi S,Kapur J,Perez-Reyes E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The possibility that a recent seizure or a recent change in antiepileptic medication might produce an occult change in neuropsychological performance is of interest, and especially so in the context of evaluation for epilepsy surgery. Such an evaluation is often done in a setting of video-EEG monitoring where a...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Dodrill CB,Ojemann GA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on data from the EURAP observational International registry of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) and pregnancy, we assessed changes in seizure control and subsequent AED changes in women who underwent attempts to withdraw valproic acid (VPA) during the first trimester of pregnancy. Applying Bayesian statistics, we comp...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tomson T,Battino D,Bonizzoni E,Craig J,Lindhout D,Perucca E,Sabers A,Thomas SV,Vajda F,EURAP Study Group.

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of guidelines to prevent the broadcast of epileptogenic television program content has reduced the incidence of seizures in Britain and Japan. Epileptogenic content includes both flicker and patterns. The guidelines for flicker were developed on the basis of a model that related stimulus parameters to the prop...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Wilkins A,Emmett J,Harding G

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The acute, subacute, and chronic effects of vigabatrin (VGB) were studied in patients with refractory complex partial seizures. VGB increases human brain gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and the related metabolites, homocarnosine and 2-pyrrolidinone. METHODS:In vivo measurements of GABA and homocarnosine were ma...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Petroff OA,Hyder F,Collins T,Mattson RH,Rothman DL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six barbiturates with diverse time-action characteristics--thiopental, pentobarbital, butabarbital, phenobarbital, diphenylbarbiturate, and barbital--were evaluated for "anticonvulsant" and "neurotoxic" effects. For the former, the MES test, clonic seizures induced by pentylenetetrazol, 90 mg/kg, s.c., and maximal sei...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Raines A,Blake GJ,Richardson B,Gilbert MB

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if three different commercially available seizure-detection software packages (Besa 2.0, Encevis 1.7, and Persyst 13) accurately detect seizures with high sensitivity, high specificity, and short detection delay in epilepsy patients undergoing long-term video-electroencephalography (EEG) monitori...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Koren J,Hafner S,Feigl M,Baumgartner C

更新日期：2021-01-19 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：:Data on numbers of admissions and admission rates for all-listed and first-listed epilepsy in nonfederal short-stay hospitals are presented. These statistics are based on 232,000 hospital discharge records from a probability sample of approximately 7,000 hospitals. The patterns of admission rates for epilepsy are comp...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jerath BK,Kimbell BA

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate further the membrane properties and postsynaptic potentials of the CA3 pyramidal cells in mice that display spontaneous seizures because of a targeted deletion of the Kcna1 potassium channel gene (encoding the Kv1.1 protein subunit). METHODS:Intracellular recordings were obtained from CA3 pyrami...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lopantsev V,Tempel BL,Schwartzkroin PA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Patients with medically intractable epilepsy due to brain tumors may undergo resective surgery for treatment of both the tumor and the epilepsy. In this instance, the extent of surgical resection is sometimes guided by spikes recorded on intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG). Whether spikes recorded by ele...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tran TA,Spencer SS,Javidan M,Pacia S,Marks D,Spencer DD

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Common data elements (CDEs) are currently unavailable for mobile health (mHealth) in epilepsy devices and related applications. As a result, despite expansive growth of new digital services for people with epilepsy, information collected is often not interoperable or directly comparable. We aim to correct thi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Goldenholz DM,Moss R,Jost DA,Crone NE,Krauss G,Picard R,Caborni C,Cavazos JE,Hixson J,Loddenkemper T,Salazar TD,Lubbers L,Harte-Hargrove LC,Whittemore V,Duun-Henriksen J,Dolan E,Kasturia N,Oberemk M,Cook MJ,Lehmkuhl

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is an under-recognized cause of altered mental status. There are hardly any reported data on NCSE in developing countries. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Prospectively 210 consecutive patients with altered mental status admitted to neurological intensive care unit (NICU) of a tert...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Narayanan JT,Murthy JM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of four antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) on human sperm motility were studied with a transmembrane migration method. Sperm motility of epileptic patients receiving chronic AED therapy was also investigated. Sperm motility was measured immediately after semen had been mixed with AED and after a 2-h prein...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Chen SS,Shen MR,Chen TJ,Lai SL

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy surgery (ES) is addressed in relation to economic classifications of national resources and welfare in developing countries. A decade ago, ten developing countries conducted ES; now 26 such countries have reported results of ES. A number of international authorities define indicators of national economic welf...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Wieser HG,Silfvenius H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a potentially preventable cause of epilepsy. Increasing incidence among army personnel and the high incidence among children and young people raise concern. This article presents a review of selected studies dealing with the risks of TBI and the risk of posttraumatic epilepsy in humans....

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Christensen J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Stress is a known trigger for seizures in patients with epilepsy (PWE). However, the association between stress and seizures has not been thoroughly investigated. In December 2019, an outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, causing tremendous collateral stress. Thi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Huang S,Wu C,Jia Y,Li G,Zhu Z,Lu K,Yang Y,Wang F,Zhu S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the results of neuroimaging studies in patients with periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs) or bilateral independent periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (BIPLEDs) for localization of lesions in gray or white matter to determine if "cortical isolation" is a critical mechanism in the p...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Raroque HG Jr,Purdy P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the earliest days of neurology, the classification of epileptic seizures into those generalized from the beginning and those with a definable localization in the cortex from the onset has added to knowledge about the function of the nervous system. Further elaboration of the classification of seizures into those ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Dreifuss FE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Traumatic brain injury has long been known to be a cause of epilepsy. Most information on risk factors for developing posttraumatic seizures is from before computed tomography (CT) scanning became universal. This article looks at factors about the injury or individual that put people at especially high risk of ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Temkin NR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile spasms begin in a very active phase of brain development. The new neuropathological techniques have shed light on changes in the fine structure of brain in children with infantile spasms. An understanding of the action of adrenocorticotropic hormone on the biochemistry and development of the brain provides, ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Riikonen R

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00