Ganglioglioma and intractable epilepsy: clinical and neurophysiologic features and predictors of outcome after surgery.

abstract：:Pharmacoresistance continues to be a challenging problem for a substantial number of epileptic patients and their attending physicians. In the past 10 years, we have made little progress in reducing the incidence of refractory epilepsy and have no innovative plans in place with the potential to do so. In this article,...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Dichter MA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple studies have highlighted how seizures induce different molecular, cellular, and physiologic consequences in an immature brain as compared to a mature brain. In keeping with these studies, seizures early in life alter dentate granule cell birth in different, and even opposing, fashion to adult seizure models (...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Porter BE

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ketogenic diet (KD) is an effective treatment for epilepsy, but its mechanisms of action are poorly understood. We investigated the hypothesis that the KD inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway signaling. The expression of pS6 and pAkt, markers of mTOR pathway activation, was reduced in hippocampus ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： McDaniel SS,Rensing NR,Thio LL,Yamada KA,Wong M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs) are events that alter or seem to alter the neurologic function and, in their appearance, resemble epileptic seizures (ESs). In patients with ESs the psychological and medical aspects of epilepsy greatly influence the health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The relation ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Szaflarski JP,Hughes C,Szaflarski M,Ficker DM,Cahill WT,Li M,Privitera MD

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Benzodiazepines (BZD) are recommended as first-line treatment for status epilepticus (SE), with lorazepam (LZP) and midazolam (MDZ) being the most widely used drugs and part of current treatment guidelines. Clonazepam (CLZ) is also utilized in many countries; however, there is no systematic comparison of thes...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Alvarez V,Lee JW,Drislane FW,Westover MB,Novy J,Dworetzky BA,Rossetti AO

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible effect of in utero antiepileptic drug (AED) exposure on the incidence of spontaneous abortion was evaluated among pregnancies of women with epilepsy and the wives of men with epilepsy. The proportion of pregnancy outcomes terminating in spontaneous abortion, the gestational age-specific rates of spontaneo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Annegers JF,Baumgartner KB,Hauser WA,Kurland LT

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to systematically review studies that have focused on symptoms of anxiety reported by parents of children (0-18 years) with epilepsy. PubMed was used to identify relevant studies. Selected studies were reviewed with respect to prevalence of above threshold scores and comparisons with controls on standardiz...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Jones C,Reilly C

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe the semiologic features of aggressive behaviors observed in human epileptic seizures with particular reference to the act of biting a conspecific. METHODS:We analyzed the biting behavior (BB) and other aggressive gestures occurring in a group of 11 patients retrospectively selected from >1,000 pati...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tassinari CA,Tassi L,Calandra-Buonaura G,Stanzani-Maserati M,Fini N,Pizza F,Sartori I,Michelucci R,Lo Russo G,Meletti S

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a randomized parallel group study design, we compared the cognit ive effects of carbamazepine (CBZ), phenobarbital (PB), and valproate (VPA) in children with epilepsy. Seventy-three children with newly diagnosed epilepsy were tested with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), Bender-Gesta...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Chen YJ,Kang WM,So WC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fragile X mental retardation 1 gene (Fmr1) is polymorphic for CGG trinucleotide repeat number in the 5'-untranslated region, with repeat lengths <45 associated with typical development and repeat lengths >200 resulting in hypermethylation and transcriptional silencing of the gene and mental retardation in the frag...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Berman RF,Murray KD,Arque G,Hunsaker MR,Wenzel HJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures, epilepsy, and alcohol are complexly interrelated. Although it is commonly perceived that patients with epilepsy experience problems with seizure control if they use alcohol, this is not confirmed by the few experimental studies that have tested the hypothesis. The last 30 years have emphasized the role of wi...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hauser WA,Ng SK,Brust JC

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Prior single-photon emission tomography studies showed losses of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (MAChR) binding in patients with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Experimental animal studies demonstrated transient losses of MAChR due to electrically induced seizures originating in the amygdala. Howev...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Pennell PB,Burdette DE,Ross DA,Henry TR,Albin RL,Sackellares JC,Frey KA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyze activity of identified dentate gyrus granular cells and interneurons during pathologic high-frequency oscillations (pHFOs). METHODS:Pilocarpine-treated epileptic mice were anesthetized with urethane and ketamine. Their heads were fixed in a stereotaxic frame. Extracellular unit activity was recoded ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bragin A,Benassi SK,Kheiri F,Engel J Jr

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Chronic cellular inflammation closely associated with epilepsy without an active infection is a hallmark of Rasmussen encephalitis (RE). RE has typical and defining features lacking in other rare epilepsy patients who also have neocortical lymphocytes without an identifiable cause. A patient with malformations ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rhodes RH,Lehman RM,Wu BY,Roychowdhury S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the SCN1A subunit of the sodium channel is a cause of genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS(+) ) in multiplex families and accounts for 70-80% of Dravet syndrome (DS). DS cases without SCN1A mutation inherited have predicted SCN9A susceptibility variants, which may contribute to complex inheri...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mulley JC,Hodgson B,McMahon JM,Iona X,Bellows S,Mullen SA,Farrell K,Mackay M,Sadleir L,Bleasel A,Gill D,Webster R,Wirrell EC,Harbord M,Sisodiya S,Andermann E,Kivity S,Berkovic SF,Scheffer IE,Dibbens LM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before a health education program can be established, one must first know what the target population believes and does with respect to the disease in question. Therefore, we performed a study among Tanzanian rural inhabitants to identify their knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) toward epilepsy: 3,256 heads of hou...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Rwiza HT,Matuja WB,Kilonzo GP,Haule J,Mbena P,Mwang'ombola R,Jilek-Aall L

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A questionnaire survey was conducted in Japan to investigate the causes and prevalence of death related to Dravet syndrome. METHODS:A questionnaire was delivered to 246 hospitals at which physicians were treating childhood epilepsy to gain information about the total number of patients with Dravet syndrome and...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Sakauchi M,Oguni H,Kato I,Osawa M,Hirose S,Kaneko S,Takahashi Y,Takayama R,Fujiwara T

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Methylmalonic acidemias are inherited metabolic disorders characterized by methylmalonate (MMA) accumulation and neurologic dysfunction, including seizures. It is known that metabolic crises in affected patients are precipitated by infections. Although growing evidence supports that inflammation facilitates sei...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Salvadori MG,Banderó CR,Jesse AC,Gomes AT,Rambo LM,Bueno LM,Bortoluzzi VT,Oliveira MS,Mello CF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Controversy persists about when EEG became a fundamental tool in the preoperative investigation for epilepsy surgery. We revisit Penfield's first use of invasive EEG monitoring, emphasizing its historical importance for the evolution of epilepsy surgery. METHODS:Patients' hospital charts and articles published...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Almeida AN,Martinez V,Feindel W

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cinromide (BW-122U) was evaluated in an open pilot study of absence seizures in three naive (previously untreated for absence seizures) patients (one male and two females, 7 to 8 years of age). In these naive patients, cinromide was found to be well tolerated but ineffective in reducing generalized spike-and-wave disc...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Corwin HM,Dreifuss FE

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with sodium valproate (VPA) in association with phenobarbital (PB) is accompanied by a greater systemic hyperammonemia than treatment by VPA alone. The anatomical origins of this difference were studied by injecting a dose of 1,500 mg VPA i.v. into six unmedicated patients and six epileptics chronically trea...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Warter JM,Marescaux C,Brandt C,Rumbach L,Micheletti G,Chabrier G,Imler M,Kurtz D

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effects of depression and anxiety disorder symptoms on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children and adolescents with epilepsy. Sixty children and adolescents and their parents participated in the study. Symptoms of anxiety disorders were identified by the Screen for Child Anxiety...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Stevanovic D,Jancic J,Lakic A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiepileptic properties of carbamazepine (Tegretol) and clonazepam (Rivotril) were compared in a double-blind randomized study comprising 36 patients with newly diagnosed, untreated psychomotor epilepsy (partial seizures with complex symptomatology). No significant differences were found between the two drugs dur...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mikkelsen B,Berggreen P,Joensen P,Kristensen O,Køhler O,Mikkelsen BO

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a Norwegian version of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-89) and to confirm its psychometric properties. METHODS:The QOLIE-89 was adapted to Norwegian language through a translation-backtranslation procedure. The assessment included 397 patients with epilepsy. We assessed internal con...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Stavem K,Bjørnaes H,Lossius MI

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effects of phenytoin (PHT) overdosage on ballistic arm abduction movements in nine epileptic patients receiving long-term PHT treatment. During the overdosage period, all but one showed clinical abnormalities referable to impaired cerebellar function; one also had slowness of movement. Ballistic moveme...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Benvenuti F,Bandinelli S,Mencarelli MA,Lunardelli ML,Campostrini R,Zaccara G,Pantaleo T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convulsive epilepsies are generally unmistakable. Absence epilepsies, which are easily recognized by the provocation of an episode during hyperventilation and by the typical features of the EEG, can be overdiagnosed, especially in the child who daydreams in class and has scattered, asymptomatic, epileptogenic EEG chan...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Murphy JV,Dehkharghani F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In the presurgical evaluation of children and juvenile patients with refractory focal epilepsy, the main challenge is to localize the point of seizure onset as precisely as possible. We compared results of the conventional electroencephalography-functional magnetic resonance imaging (EEG-fMRI) analysis with tho...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Elshoff L,Groening K,Grouiller F,Wiegand G,Wolff S,Michel C,Stephani U,Siniatchkin M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen children (7 boys and 8 girls) with generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS) and partial seizures with elementary or complex symptomatology, treated with carbamazepine (CBZ) alone (n = 7) or in combination with either phenobarbital (PB, n = 6) or clobazam (CLB, n = 2) given for at least 3 months at stable indiv...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Cornaggia C,Gianetti S,Battino D,Granata T,Romeo A,Viani F,Limido G

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:The progressive myoclonus epilepsies (PMEs) are a group of rare genetic disorders previously shrouded in nosological confusion. Recent advances have clarified the features of these disorders and provided a rational approach to diagnosis. The major causes of PME are now known to be Unverricht-Lundborg disease, myoclonu...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Berkovic SF,Cochius J,Andermann E,Andermann F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00