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The Antiseizure Medication Handbook: A Call Companion [PDF]

, 2023
Issues addressed and background:The landscape of pediatric epilepsy is rife with difficult medication decisions in a vulnerable patient population.  The decision of which antiseizure medications to use, dosage, the side effect counseling, and the ...
Kalawi, Adam Z, MD
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Clinical and neuropsychological changes after the disappearance of seizures in a case of transient epileptic amnesia

Epilepsy and Behavior Case Reports, 2017
We encountered a female patient with late-onset temporal lobe epilepsy who presented with transient amnesia as the sole ictal manifestation, an accelerated rate of forgetting daily life events, and a retrograde memory deficit.
Masanori Sekimoto, Reimi Muramatsu, Masaaki Kato, Teiichi Onuma   +3 more
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Seizures and epilepsy in patients with ischaemic stroke

Neurological Research and Practice, 2021
Background With the increased efficacy of stroke treatments, diagnosis and specific treatment needs of patients with post-stroke seizures (PSS) and post-stroke epilepsy have become increasingly important.
Johann Philipp Zöllner, Friedhelm C. Schmitt, Felix Rosenow, Konstantin Kohlhase, Alexander Seiler, Adam Strzelczyk, Hermann Stefan   +6 more
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Antiseizure medication choice in diffuse glioma: A single-center population-based experience. [PDF]

Epilepsia Open
ObjectiveSeveral antiseizure medications (ASMs) can be considered as first-line treatment for glioma-associated epilepsy (GAE). We aimed to find out, if there are subgroups of glioma patients which may benefit from different first-line ASMs.MethodsAll ...
Ollila L, Roivainen R.
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Identification of New Antiseizure Medication Candidates in Preclinical Animal Studies

, 2023
Epilepsy is a multifactorial neurologic disease that often leads to many devastating disabilities and an enormous burden on the healthcare system. Until now, drug-resistant epilepsy has presented a major challenge for approximately 30% of the epileptic ...
Sheng-Nan Wu, Chih-Sheng Yang, Chin-Wei Huang, Ming-Chi Lai, Man-Chun Wu   +4 more
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Antiseizure medication discovery: Recent and future paradigm shifts

Epilepsia Open, 2022
Despite the ever‐increasing number of available options for the treatment of epilepsies and the remarkable advances on the understanding of their pathophysiology, the proportion of refractory patients has remained approximately unmodified during the last
Alan Talevi
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Incidence of and predictors for antiseizure medication gaps in Medicare beneficiaries with epilepsy: a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]

, 2022
BACKGROUND For the two-thirds of patients with epilepsy who achieve seizure remission on antiseizure medications (ASMs), patients and clinicians must weigh the pros and cons of long-term ASM treatment.
Kerr, Wesley T., Aubert, Carole E., Niznik, Joshua D., Niznik, Joshua D, Braun, Kees P. J., Braun, Kees P J, Slinger, Geertruida, Otte, Willem M, Boyd, Cynthia M, Otte, Willem M., Aubert, Carole E, Burke, James F., Braun, Kees P.J., Boyd, Cynthia M., Terman, Samuel W, Burke, James F, Kerr, Wesley T, Terman, Samuel W.   +17 more
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Differences between men and women in response to antiseizure medication use and the likelihood of developing treatment resistant epilepsy

Epilepsia Open, 2022
Objective The prevalence of epilepsy is slightly higher in women than in men and sensitivity to seizure stimuli differs between sexes. Some evidence suggests sex differences in response to antiseizure medications exist mainly due to inconsistent ...
M. Soledad Cepeda, Rachel E. Teneralli, David M. Kern, Gerald Novak   +3 more
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Data_Sheet_1_Excessively increased thalamocortical connectivity and poor initial antiseizure medication response in epilepsy patients.docx

, 2023
ObjectivesThe network mechanism underlying the initial response to antiseizure medication in epilepsy has not been revealed yet. Given the central role of the thalamus in the brain network, we conducted a case-control study to investigate the association
Jiyuan Zhong, Haijiao Wang, Ge Tan (3326088), Yangmei Chen (702818), Ge Tan, Yangmei Chen, Jiyuan Zhong (16381545), Haijiao Wang (170477)   +7 more
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Drug‐resistant epilepsy: Drug target hypothesis and beyond the receptors

Epilepsia Open, 2022
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that affects more than 50 million people worldwide. Despite a recent introduction of antiseizure drugs for the treatment of epileptic seizures, one‐third of these patients suffer from drug‐resistant epilepsy ...
Daniel Fonseca‐Barriendos, Christian Lizette Frías‐Soria, Daniel Pérez‐Pérez, Rosenda Gómez‐López, Dasiel O. Borroto Escuela, Luisa Rocha   +5 more
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