Review about comorbidities of behavioural disorders in children and adolescents: The focus on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [PDF]
Disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) present high comorbidity rate mainly for opposite-defiant disorders that are frequent among children, adolescents and adults affected by with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), probably as result of ...
Barbanera F. +9 more
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Epilepsy – A Brief Overview [PDF]
Epilepsy is a neurological condition in which an individual experiences chronic abnormal bursts of electrical discharge in the brain. These seizures can cause a variety symptoms depending on the areas of the brain affected. Symptoms can vary from mild to
Koyama, Alain
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Visuospatial skills in children affected by primary nocturnal enuresis: Rehabilitative proposals [PDF]
The sphincterial control problems in childhood are very common, with relevant comorbidities (i.e.: difficulty in academic performance, sleep disturbances, minor neurological signs) involved in the complex process of maturation and learning, such as to ...
Cerroni F. +22 more
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The interictal activities load and cognitive performance of children with typical absence epilepsy
Background The description of childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) a benign self-limited generalized epilepsy has become a matter of debate. The objectives of this work were to evaluate the existence of psychiatric and cognitive impairments among patients ...
Shereen Ahmed ELAhwal +4 more
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Absence Seizure Detection Algorithm for Portable EEG Devices
Absence seizures are generalized nonmotor epileptic seizures with abrupt onset and termination. Transient impairment of consciousness and spike-slow wave discharges (SWDs) in EEG are their characteristic manifestations.
Pawel Glaba +9 more
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Network perspectives on epilepsy using EEG/MEG source connectivity [PDF]
The evolution of EEG/MEG source connectivity is both, a promising, and controversial advance in the characterization of epileptic brain activity. In this narrative review we elucidate the potential of this technology to provide an intuitive view of the ...
Focke, Niels K. +3 more
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Recurrent prolonged fugue states as the sole manifestation of epileptic seizures
A fugue state is defined as an altered state of consciousness with varying degrees of motor activity and amnesia for the event. It may last for hours to days and may be psychogenic or organic in nature.
Geeta A Khwaja +6 more
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Pathophysiological role of extrasynaptic GABAA receptors in typical absence epilepsy [PDF]
GABA is the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian CNS. It acts via two classes of receptors, the GABAA, a ligand gated ion channel (ionotropic receptor) and the metabotropic G-protein coupled GABAB receptor.
Crunelli, Vincenzo +2 more
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Solving the Socratic Problem—A Contribution from Medicine [PDF]
This essay provides a medical theory that could clarify enigmas surrounding the historical Socrates. It offers textual evidence that Socrates had temporal lobe epilepsy and that its two types of seizure manifested as recurrent voices and peculiar ...
Muramoto, Osamu
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Episodic neurologic disorders: syndromes, genes, and mechanisms. [PDF]
Many neurologic diseases cause discrete episodic impairment in contrast with progressive deterioration. The symptoms of these episodic disorders exhibit striking variety.
Fu, Ying-Hui +2 more
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