abstract：:Estrogens have previously been reported to be proconvulsants in adult animals. This study evaluated the effects of acute, high-dose estrogen administration on rate of kindling in immature rats. No significant differences in rate of kindling between the estrogen-treated rats and controls were noted. This study, using t...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Schultz-Krohn WA,Thompson J,Holmes GL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which animals develop tolerance to the antiepileptic effects of the carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitor, acetazolamide, was explored using a quantitative immunocytochemical method. Cerebral cortex sections of DBA/2J mice susceptible to audiogenic seizures and of C57BL/6J nonsusceptible mice were stained...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Banks DA,Anderson RE,Woodbury DM

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:This study evaluated ictal stereotaxic electroencephalogram (SEEG) records in 75 patients with complex partial seizures who later received anterior temporal lobectomy and were evaluated for long-term seizure relief. The time required for seizures to propagate from the putatively epileptogenic hippocampal formation to ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lieb JP,Engel J Jr,Babb TL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative efficacies of phenobarbital (PB), phenytoin (PHT), carbamazepine (CBZ), and valproic acid (VPA) in the suppression of focal and generalized seizures produced by electrical stimulation of two different cortical sites (areas 3 and 10) were evaluated in the rat. The two cortical sites were distinguished by s...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Moss KA,Kalichman MW,Iragui VJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonconvulsive status epilepticus may be subdivided into generalized (absence) status and complex partial status. The latter is regarded as a rarity, whereas the former constitutes the dominant part of the hitherto reported cases. We report 10 consecutive cases of adult patients with nonconvulsive status epilepticus, a...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Tomson T,Svanborg E,Wedlund JE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DBA/2J (DBA) mice are susceptible to audiogenic seizures (AGSs) in an age-dependent manner, susceptibility being maximal at 21 days and absent at 110 days of age. Previous studies have demonstrated that there is a decrease in anion transport and an increase in carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity in brain from DBA mice as...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Engstrom FL,Kemp JW,Chow SY,Woodbury DM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identical twins concordant for partial epilepsy, with onset at 8 and 11 years of age, are presented. Their course has been benign on anticonvulsant therapy. It is suggested that these cases of presumed genetic epilepsy support current concepts of cortical origin and genetic determinants in several subtypes of focal ep...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hurst R,Lenn NJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:Benzodiazepines (BDZ) interact with components of neuronal membranes to modify excitability in three different ways. Action at a high affinity central receptor (dissociation constant, KD, of 3 nM) linked to the GABAA recognition site enhances the inhibitory action of GABA by increasing the number of openings of Cl- ch...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Meldrum BS,Chapman AG

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:A need for prevalence information emphasizing racial differences prompted a door-to-door survey of all residents of Copiah County, Mississippi. The fieldwork involved a complete census and an extensive screening questionnaire inquiring about diagnoses, signs, and symptoms of neurologic disease. Residents who lived in ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Haerer AF,Anderson DW,Schoenberg BS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay explores the usefulness of the concept of consciousness in epileptology and concludes that it does not further the understanding of seizure mechanisms and brain function. The reasons for this are both theoretical and empirical. Consciousness cannot be adequately defined. This may explain why attempts at acc...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Gloor P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminophylline (50 and 100 mg/kg) and CGS 8216 (20 and 40 mg/kg) decreased the anticonvulsant potency of diazepam (5 and 10 mg/kg) against electroshock-induced seizures. It should be emphasized that aminophylline moderately affected the protective action of the benzodiazepine at a dose of 5 mg/kg, whereas it was equipo...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Czuczwar SJ,Turski WA,Ikonomidou C,Turski L

更新日期：1985-11-01 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：:The teratological effect of nicotine has been studied during different trimesters of pregnancy. Three groups of pregnant albino Swiss mice were used for each trimester. The daily doses of nicotine base used were equivalent to 10 (900 micrograms/kg), 20 (1,800 micrograms/kg), or 30 (2,700 micrograms/kg) cigarettes. The...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Al-Hachim GM,Mahmoud FA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 45 patients suffering from secondary generalized epilepsy, we have recorded 239 drop seizures both by radio-telemetered EEG/split-screen video taping and polygraphically. Twenty of these patients had pure tonic drop seizures. Nine patients each had myoclonic-atonic or pure atonic seizures, whereas seven had slow fa...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Egli M,Mothersill I,O'Kane M,O'Kane F

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) level in lumbar CSF of 31 children with epilepsy was not significantly different from that of 41 age-matched controls. However, when the epileptic children were subdivided into untreated patients and patients treated with antiepileptic drugs, the medication-free subgroup had a s...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Löscher W,Siemes H

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared zonisamide monotherapy (12 weeks) to carbamazepine monotherapy (12 weeks) after phenytoin baseline monotherapy (8 weeks) in an open crossover pilot study of eight adults with uncontrolled partial seizures. Zonisamide had definite antiepileptic activity in five subjects. In two of these, response to zonisam...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Wilensky AJ,Friel PN,Ojemann LM,Dodrill CB,McCormick KB,Levy RH

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and the potential risk of inducing convulsive or nonconvulsive status epilepticus with the combination of valproate (VPA) and clonazepam (CZP), with or without other anticonvulsant drugs, in 55 patients with intractable epilepsy was evaluated. The patients were treated with VPA and CZP concomitantly for f...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Mireles R,Leppik IE

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic profiles of diazepam (DZP) were investigated in plasma, erythrocytes, and discrete brain areas in the rat, and the effects of valproic acid (VPA), given as sodium valproate, on kinetic parameters were analyzed. The experiments were performed on two groups of rats treated daily for 15 days, the first receiv...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Hariton C,Jadot G,Valli M,Mesdjian E,Mandel P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal epilepsy can be produced by a blood-brain barrier (BBB)-excluded systemic convulsant (penicillin, folic acid, etc.) in the presence of a focal BBB lesion. Bicuculline methiodide, a gamma-aminobutyric acid blocking epileptogen, crosses the normal BBB of rats poorly and produces no consistent abnormality behaviora...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Remler MP,Marcussen WH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy is associated with characteristic changes in the disposition of antiepileptic drugs; recent findings on this aspect of drug utilization are presented. In one study involving 48 pregnancies, the mean level-dose ratio of phenytoin decreased by 34%. In another study of 111 patients, phenytoin clearance increase...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Levy RH,Yerby MS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal cell densities in various regions of the anterior and posterior hippocampal formation were measured from en bloc temporal lobe resections and compared with presurgical stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) data derived from depth electrodes in 12 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. These data were compared w...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Babb TL,Lieb JP,Brown WJ,Pretorius J,Crandall PH

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies from several countries have reported that fewer people with epilepsy marry, but the reasons for this are not clear. In the present investigation, 178 adults with epilepsy were divided into married, separated/divorced, and never married groups. The never married group was subdivided into persons living in depen...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Batzel LW,Dodrill CB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty therapy-resistant epileptic patients entered a double-blind, randomized, two-period, cross-over trial comparing progabide (19.3-36 mg/kg/day) and placebo as add-on drugs to standard therapy. Each period lasted 6 weeks with a gradual crossover during 4 days. Five patients were dropped because of reasons unrelate...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Martínez-Lage JM,Bossi L,Morales G,Martínez Vila E,Orofiamma B,Viteri C

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:Sleep is a modulator of seizure activity, and many antiepileptic drugs are modulators of sleep. Can influences on sleep organization be involved in antiepileptic drug action, and can these partly account for differences in drug response of various epileptic syndromes? Much more exact data must be collected before thes...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Wolf P,Röder-Wanner UU,Brede M

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:Hyperthermia was induced in mature rats by immersing them in 20 cm of 45 degrees C water for 4 min. Rats were made hyperthermic once every 4 days for six exposures. A significant number had at least one convulsion by the third exposure. During the seventh exposure, 2 weeks after the sixth exposure, twice as many rats ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Klauenberg BJ,Sparber SB

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amygdala kindling, the progressive development of seizures following repeated electrical stimulation, has been used as a model of epileptogenesis, neural memory, and the development of behavioral alterations. In an attempt to interfere with the kindling process, electroconvulsive seizures (ECS) were administered 6 h p...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Post RM,Putnam F,Contel NR,Goldman B

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that bicuculline-induced seizures of 1-2 h in duration lead to structural, metabolic, and circulatory alterations in the rat brain. Such alterations were observed even though cerebral oxygenation seemed adequate. In the present study, we explored whether pentylenetetrazole, a convuls...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Ingvar M,Söderfeldt B,Folbergrová J,Kalimo H,Olsson Y,Siesjö BK

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of the children in 12 families examined the impact of and adjustments to epilepsy in one of the parents. Young children allowed to see the parent's seizures and the treatment for those seizures adapted to the threat of illness in a parent by becoming involved in the care and supervision of the affe...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Lechtenberg R,Akner L

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 100 years ago, on the 27th of January 1881, Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky died. Since that time, many biographies, monographs, memoirs, and, to a lesser extent, articles in the medical literature have discussed the fact that Dostoevsky was a patient with epilepsy. An attempt is made here to integrate the detail...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Voskuil PH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats injected intracranially with cholesterol precursors and subjected to electroconvulsive seizures showed significantly higher levels of deposition of [4-14C]cholesterol into brain cholesterol than controls. The degree of incorporation was cholesterol greater than mevalonic acid greater than sodium acetate; in each ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Colannino NM,Lipke H

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：: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：:The hypothesis was tested that epileptiform alterations of brain excitability may be elicited by a conditioning stimulus (CS) in a classical conditioning paradigm. Fifteen male albino rats were chronically implanted with electrodes in the amygdala and over the visual cortex. A train of six stroboscopic flashes served ...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Myslobodsky MS,Mintz M,Lerner T,Mostofsky DI

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：:Nicotinamide is a ligand of the benzodiazepine receptor and has been reported to have anticonvulsant activity. In addition, our previous clinical experience has raised the possibility that it may also potentiate the action of barbiturates. Therefore, we have examined the anticonvulsant activity and neurotoxicity of ni...

journal_title：Epilepsia

authors： Bourgeois BF,Dodson WE,Ferrendelli JA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00