A 6-year-old with childhood absence epilepsy and motor hyperactivity [PDF]
Epilepsy & Behavior ReportsA case study of a child with childhood absence epilepsy and hyperactivity introduces the discussion around the psychiatric diagnosis, differential considerations, and pharmacologic treatment options for ADHD/hyperactivity in children with epilepsy.
Stéphane Auvin
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Functional brain network characteristics are associated with epilepsy severity in childhood absence epilepsy [PDF]
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2020 While cognitive impairments are not generally considered to be part of the childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) syndrome, some recent studies report cognitive, mainly attentional, deficits. Here we set out to investigate the whole brain functional network of
Gerhard S. Drenthen, PhD +9 more
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Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity in Childhood Absence Epilepsy
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2011 Using a blood oxygen level-dependent resting functional connectivity approach to analyze EEG-fMRI data, the properties of bihemispheric brain networks in 16 patients with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) were investigated during the interictal period, in
J Gordon Millichap
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Paroxysmal tonic upgaze of childhood and childhood absence epilepsy
European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 2010 Paroxismal tonic upgaze of childhood (PTU) is a distinctive neuro-ophtalmological syndrome of unknown aetiology and pathogenesis that is characterized by episodes of sustained upward deviation of the eyes, often with incomplete downward saccades on ...
Verrotti, Alberto +3 more
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Changes in Interictal Pretreatment and Posttreatment EEG in Childhood Absence Epilepsy [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Spike and wave discharges (SWDs) are a characteristic manifestation of childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). It has long been believed that they unpredictably emerge from otherwise almost normal interictal EEG. Herein, we demonstrate that pretreatment closed-
Pawel Glaba +6 more
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Long-term prognosis of childhood absence epilepsy
Neurología (English Edition), 2019 Introduction: Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is considered easily manageable with medication provided that a strict patient classification system is employed.
C. Martínez-Ferrández +5 more
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Clinical and Electrophysiological Prognostic Factors of Childhood Absence Epilepsy [PDF]
Journal of Pediatric Research, 2021 Aim:Childhood absence epilepsy is common idiopathic epilepsy in childhood. This epilepsy, which has been shown to impair cognition, needs to be treated promptly and correctly.
Hande Gazeteci Tekin +2 more
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Memory Functioning in Children with Epilepsy: Frontal Lobe Epilepsy, Childhood Absence Epilepsy, and Benign Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes [PDF]
Behavioural Neurology, 2014 Specific cognitive deficits have been identified in children with epilepsy irrespective of results on intelligence tests. Memory deficits are traditionally attributed to temporal lobe epilepsy, whereas the impact of frontal lobe epilepsy on memory ...
Ana Filipa Lopes +4 more
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EEG in childhood absence epilepsy [PDF]
Seizure, 2004 We performed a longitudinal clinico-electroencephalographic study of 23 children who were diagnosed as having absence epilepsy on their initial visits to our facility and we analysed those factors which lead to an unfavourable prognosis.We divided the 23 patients into three groups according to their clinical courses: Group A: eight patients who ...
Yoshinaga, Harumi +6 more
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Childhood Absence Epilepsy evolving to Eyelid Myoclonia with Absence Epilepsy [PDF]
Seizure, 2018 Children with Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE) may develop generalized tonic-clonic seizure or juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. A possible evolution to Eyelid Myoclonia with Absence Epilepsy (EMA) hasn't been documented yet. We report the electroclinical features of a case series of children with CAE that evolved to EMA after therapy withdrawal.Of 108 ...
Galli, Jessica +4 more
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