Diffuse spike-wave status of 9-year duration without behavioral change or intellectual decline.

abstract：:Rare individuals suffer epileptic seizures when they view certain images, particularly stripes. Contrast-threshold functions (the ability to see faint stripes of various widths) were determined for two pattern-sensitive brothers, and the epileptogenicity of various patterns was assessed for one of them. Sine wave grat...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Soso MJ,Lettich E,Belgum JH

更新日期：1980-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is informative in febrile seizures (FS) is unknown. We undertook a study to determine the frequency of MRI-detected brain abnormalities and to evaluate their association with FS type and with specific features of complex FS. METHODS:A prospective cohort study, from 19...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hesdorffer DC,Chan S,Tian H,Allen Hauser W,Dayan P,Leary LD,Hinton VJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Many antiseizure drugs (ASDs) act on voltage-dependent sodium channels, and the molecular basis of these effects is well established. In contrast, how ASDs act on the level of neuronal networks is much less understood. METHODS:In the present study, we determined the effects of eslicarbazepine (S-Lic) on diff...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Schmidt S,Pothmann L,Müller-Komorowska D,Opitz T,Soares da Silva P,Beck H

更新日期：2021-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy was defined conceptually in 2005 as a disorder of the brain characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures. This definition is usually practically applied as having two unprovoked seizures >24 h apart. The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) accepted recommendations of a t...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Fisher RS,Acevedo C,Arzimanoglou A,Bogacz A,Cross JH,Elger CE,Engel J Jr,Forsgren L,French JA,Glynn M,Hesdorffer DC,Lee BI,Mathern GW,Moshé SL,Perucca E,Scheffer IE,Tomson T,Watanabe M,Wiebe S

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate efficacy, tolerability, and safety of adjunctive brivaracetam (BRV) in patients with Unverricht-Lundborg disease (EPM1). METHODS:Two prospective, multicenter, double-blind, phase III trials (N01187/NCT00357669; N01236/NCT00368251) in patients (≥16 years) with genetically ascertained EPM1, showing...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kälviäinen R,Genton P,Andermann E,Andermann F,Magaudda A,Frucht SJ,Schlit AF,Gerard D,de la Loge C,von Rosenstiel P

更新日期：2016-02-01 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

abstract：PURPOSE:Most people in the world with epilepsy are untreated with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). In some developing countries, this is because treatment facilities are unavailable or difficult to access. It has even been suggested that indigenous health systems threaten the prospect of the global control of epilepsy with ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Pal DK,Das T,Sengupta S,Chaudhury G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous studies have shown that the immunosuppressant cyclosporin A (CsA), a specific blocker of the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) pore, can dramatically ameliorate the selective neuronal necrosis resulting from ischemia-reperfusion, traumatic brain injury, and N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)-evoked ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Santos JB,Schauwecker PE

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent clinical trials indicate that cannabidiol (CBD) may reduce seizure frequency in pediatric patients with certain forms of treatment-resistant epilepsy. Many of these patients experience significant impairments in quality of life (QOL) in physical, mental, and social dimensions of health. In this study, we measur...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rosenberg EC,Louik J,Conway E,Devinsky O,Friedman D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Precipitants of seizures are often reported by patients and carers, but the accuracy of these claims remains unknown. Focusing on epilepsy in people with intellectual disability (ID), the aims of this work were to (1) identify a set of methods for assessing the validity of reported seizure triggers in indivi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Illingworth JL,Watson P,Xu S,Manford M,Ring H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe a previously unreported type of self-induced pattern-sensitive seizures in a child. METHODS:Evaluation of clinical and EEG features. RESULTS:An 18-month-old boy was initially seen with series of short focal tonic seizures self-induced by gazing intermittently at round objects. Self-induction of th...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Brockmann K,Huppke P,Karenfort M,Gärtner J,Höger C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of epilepsy (KAPE) among the public play a major role in determining the extent to which people with epilepsy can be integrated into their society. KAPE SURVEYS IN ASIA:Surveys conducted among Chinese in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong demonstrated simila...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lim SH,Pan A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies have found that affected individuals who believe the cause of their disorder is genetic may react in various ways, including optimism for improved treatments and pessimism due to perceived permanence of the condition. This study assessed the psychosocial impact of genetic attribution among people with...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Garofalo DC,Sorge ST,Hesdorffer DC,Winawer MR,Phelan JC,Chung WK,Ottman R

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between diurnal fluctuations in free (unbound) and total plasma carbamazepine levels and the appearance of intermittent side effects was investigated in nine epileptic patients receiving chronic therapy with carbamazepine, alone or in combination with phenobarbital. On a three-times-daily or four-time...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Riva R,Albani F,Ambrosetto G,Contin M,Cortelli P,Perucca E,Baruzzi A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of prostaglandins (PGs) in the central nervous system are known to increase during and after experimentally induced seizures. In the present study, concentrations of PGE-2 were determined by radioimmunoassay in lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 17 children shortly after a febrile convulsion. PGE-2 dat...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Löscher W,Siemes H

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the potential pharmacokinetic interactions between topiramate (TPM) and phenytoin (PHT) in patients with epilepsy by studying their pharmacokinetics (PK) after monotherapy and concomitant TPM/PHT treatment. METHODS:Twelve patients with epilepsy stabilized on PHT monotherapy were enrolled in this st...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sachdeo RC,Sachdeo SK,Levy RH,Streeter AJ,Bishop FE,Kunze KL,Mather GG,Roskos LK,Shen DD,Thummel KE,Trager WF,Curtin CR,Doose DR,Gisclon LG,Bialer M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In vitro brain preparations have been used extensively to study the generation and propagation of epileptiform activity. Transverse and longitudinal slices of the rodent hippocampus have revealed various patterns of propagation. Yet intact connections between the transverse and longitudinal pathways should gene...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Kibler AB,Durand DM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of social networking via the Internet and the commercial availability of tests for SCN1A mutations permitted the rapid development and growth of parent-led associations that provide advocacy and support, as well as promote education and research regarding Dravet syndrome (DS) in the last 10 years. The Inter...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Skluzacek JV,Watts KP,Parsy O,Wical B,Camfield P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a wide range of neurologic abnormalities develop, including mental retardation and seizures. Brains from TSC patients are characterized by the presence of cortical tubers, large dysmorphic neurons, and abnormal cytomegalic cells. Although analysis of human TSC ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Takahashi DK,Dinday MT,Barbaro NM,Baraban SC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic goals in nonsurgical (conservative) epileptology differ from presurgical diagnostic aims. The resulting development of diagnostic methods in a tertiary-level epilepsy center is shown and the major technical and organizational consequences of this difference for diagnostic long-term monitoring (LTM) as o...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ried S,Hilfiker P,Mothersill IW,Krämer G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The "adenosine hypothesis of SUDEP" (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) predicts that a seizure-induced adenosine surge combined with impaired metabolic clearance can foster lethal apnea or cardiac arrest. Changes in adenosine receptor density and adenosine kinase (ADK) occur in surgical epilepsy patients. ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Patodia S,Paradiso B,Garcia M,Ellis M,Diehl B,Thom M,Devinsky O

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Both clinical genomics and e-Health technology are changing the way medicine is being practiced. Although the basic clinical methodology of good medical care will remain unchanged, the combined power of genomics and electronic health records has the capability of enhancing, and in some cases transforming, th...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Delanty N,White M,Benson K,McCormack M,Heavin S,Comerford E,Gangadharan N,Power K,Dunleavey B,El-Naggar H,Doherty C,Greally M,Cavalleri G,Fitzsimons M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one cases (12 males, 9 females) of Lafora's disease in 16 families were studied at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India, from 1982 to 1990. Mean age of onset was 13.5 years (range 9.5-18 years). First symptom was generalized tonic-clonic seizure (17), myoclonus ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Acharya JN,Satishchandra P,Asha T,Shankar SK

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Under an expanded access investigational new drug (IND) trial, cannabidiol (CBD) is being studied as a possible adjuvant treatment of refractory epilepsy in children. Of the 25 subjects in the trial, 13 were being treated with clobazam (CLB). Because CLB and CBD are both metabolized in the cytochrome P450 (CY...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Geffrey AL,Pollack SF,Bruno PL,Thiele EA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Neuropsychological studies suggest frontal lobe dysfunctions in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). In this study we investigated whether an underlying mechanism could be a regional neuronal damage not visible with structural magnetic resonance (MR), but detectable with magnetic resonance spectrosc...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Savic I,Lekvall A,Greitz D,Helms G

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-hundred twelve epileptic children were followed longitudinally for several years. The 2- and 4-year remission statuses at the latest examination were 50.6 and 44.2%, respectively. Dividing our sample into groups showing onset of seizures in infancy or at 2-3, 4-7, 8-10, or 11-14 years, the remission rates were as...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sofijanov NG

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-year-old man with regularly occurring clusters of complex partial seizures was studied over a total of 224 days. His seizure periods lasted 2-4 days and occurred at intervals of 5-6 weeks. Several parameters were studied. The most striking finding was an increase in the serum concentration of thyroxine prior to a...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Taubøll E,Stokke KT,Gjerstad L,Løyning Y,Johannessen SI

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many important discoveries in nervous system structure and function involved the electrical properties of nerve tissue. The application of these advances, as well as those in electronic amplification and recording, led to the discovery of the human electroencephalogram ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Zifkin BG,Avanzini G

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00