Health Technology Assessment, 2021 Background: Levetiracetam (Keppra®, UCB Pharma Ltd, Slough, UK) and zonisamide (Zonegran®, Eisai Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan) are licensed as monotherapy for focal epilepsy, and levetiracetam is increasingly used as a first-line treatment for generalised ...
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EEG–fMRI of idiopathic and secondarily generalized epilepsies [PDF]
, 2006 We used simultaneous EEG and functional MRI (EEG–fMRI) to study generalized spike wave activity (GSW) in idiopathic and secondary generalized epilepsy (SGE).
Duncan, J.S. +7 more
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International Veterinary Epilepsy Task Force consensus report on epilepsy definition, classification and terminology in companion animals [PDF]
, 2015 Dogs with epilepsy are among the commonest neurological patients in veterinary practice and therefore have historically attracted much attention with regard to definitions, clinical approach and management. A number of classification proposals for canine
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Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: A State of the Art Review. [PDF]
, 2017 Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy usually with onset between 1 and 8 years of age. Functional neuroimaging studies recently introduced the concept of Lennox-Gastaut as "secondary network epilepsy" resulting ...
Mastrangelo, Mario
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Localizing Value of Clinical Seizure Patterns
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1996 The value of ictal clinical manifestations in differentiating frontal and temporal lobe partial epilepsies was determined in a prospective study of 252 patients selected according to imaging, EEG, and focal clinical patterns from records at the National ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Episodic neurologic disorders: syndromes, genes, and mechanisms. [PDF]
, 2013 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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Frequency and Stratification of Epileptogenic Lesions in Elderly With New Onset Seizures
Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Objective: To evaluate prospectively the frequency of epileptogenic lesions in a consecutive cohort of elderly patients presenting with new onset unprovoked seizures, and who underwent a complete evaluation including dedicated epilepsy protocol MRI ...
Maher Arabi +8 more
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Improved diagnosis in children with partial epilepsy using a multivariable prediction model based on EEG network characteristics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Electroencephalogram (EEG) acquisition is routinely performed to support an epileptic origin of paroxysmal events in patients referred with a possible diagnosis of epilepsy. However, in children with partial epilepsies the interictal EEGs are
Eric van Diessen +4 more
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Seizures in Offspring of Epileptic Parents
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1989 The risks Of unprovoked seizures in the offspring of parents with generalized versus partial epilepsies among 687 patients born in Rochester, MN between 1922 and 1985 and followed for the occurrence of seizures through 1986 are reported from the Division
J Gordon Millichap
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Clinically indicated electrical stimulation strategies to treat patients with medically refractory epilepsy. [PDF]
, 2018 Focal epilepsies represent approximately half of all diagnoses, and more than one-third of these patients are refractory to pharmacologic treatment.
Gurkoff, Gene +5 more
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