Therapeutic Options for Childhood Absence Epilepsy [PDF]
Pediatric Reports, 2021 Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a common pediatric generalized epileptic syndrome. Although it is traditionally considered as a benign self-limited condition, the apparent benign nature of this syndrome has been revaluated in recent years.
Victoria Elisa Rinaldi +3 more
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Behavioral and Cognitive Comorbidities in Genetic Rat Models of Absence Epilepsy (Focusing on GAERS and WAG/Rij Rats) [PDF]
BiomedicinesAbsence epilepsy is a non-convulsive type of epilepsy characterized by the sudden loss of awareness. It is associated with thalamo-cortical impairment, which may cause neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive problems.
Evgenia Sitnikova
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Experimental Models of Absence Epilepsy
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2020 Introduction: Absence epilepsy is a brief non-convulsive seizure associated with sudden abruptness in consciousness. Because of the unpredictable occurrence of absence seizures and the ethical issues of human investigation on the pathogenesis and drug ...
Maryam Jafarian +2 more
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Periventricular Heterotopia and Absence Epilepsy
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1999 A 7-year-old child with absence seizures and a 3-Hz generalized and occasional focal, spike-and-wave EEG pattern, responsive to treatment with valproic acid, had an MRI with periventricular nodular heterotopias, primarily right sided.
J Gordon Millichap
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Cognitive Function and Absence Epilepsy [PDF]
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2012 Researchers at the University of Rome, Italy studied executive function and attention in 15 children with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) (8 boys, 7 girls), under treatment with valproic acid, compared to healthy controls.
J Gordon Millichap
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Epidemiology of Absence Epilepsy
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1991 A population based electroencephalographic study of absence epilepsy in 97 children is reported from the Departments of Neurophysiology and Pediatrics, Goteborg University, Sweden.
J Gordon Millichap
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Juvenile absence epilepsy: integrating photosensitivity and autonomic focal epileptic symptoms. [PDF]
Acta Neurol Belg, 2023 León-Ruiz M +2 more
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Huperzine A suppresses absence seizures in the genetic absence epilepsy rat from Strasbourg (GAERS) model of genetic generalized epilepsy with absence seizures [PDF]
Epilepsia OpenObjective We evaluated huperzine A treatment in the Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rat from Strasbourg (GAERS) model of genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) with absence seizures.
Pablo M. Casillas‐Espinosa +6 more
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Co-occurrence of childhood absence epilepsy and self-limited focal epilepsy interictal discharges: Differences from childhood absence epilepsy alone. [PDF]
Epileptic DisordBarbagallo G +6 more
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Investigating the Effects of NMDAR and LGI1 Antibodies on Absence Seizures: Insights from Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats and Acute Pharmacological Model of Absence Seizures. [PDF]
Noro Psikiyatr ArsÇarçak N +9 more
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