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Different Characteristics between the Generalized and Partial Epilepsy Based on the Family History of Epilepsy

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2016
Background: In etiology of epilepsy, different factors have role and one of them is genetics. This study aimed to investigate the differences between generalized and partial epilepsy based on the family history.
Mohammad Reza Najafi, Shima Saeidi, Shahrzad Nematollahi, Rokhsareh Meamar   +3 more
doaj  

Impact of Age on the Diagnostic Yield of Routine EEG in People With Childhood or Juvenile Absence Epilepsy: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We aimed to identify the proportion of individuals with a confirmed diagnosis of childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) or juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) who show a negative routine EEG (rEEG), and to determine the main factors associated with this finding.
Francesco Fortunato, Alessia Giugno, Miriam Sturniolo, Enrico Fratto, Pio Zoleo, Francesca Felicia Operto, Ilaria Sammarra, Antonio Gambardella   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic studies of the common epilepsies: genome-wide association studies in the partial epilepsies [PDF]

, 2014
This thesis discusses four studies, looking for genetic determinants of common epilepsies: 1) A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of partial epilepsies (PE), which was the first published GWAS in the field of epilepsy (Chapter 4).
Catarino, CB
core  

Neuronal migration disorders. Part I: Terminology, classification, pathophysiology, EEG and epilepsy

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1998
Intractable epilepsies and partial epilepsies, which make up a great majority of epileptic disorders, are not better recognized and their etiologies unveiled with the help of the new imaging techniques.
G Turanli, D Yalnizoğlu, Y Renda
doaj  

Transtemporal amygdalohippocampectomy: a novel minimally-invasive technique with optimal clinical results and low cost

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Mesial temporal sclerosis creates a focal epileptic syndrome that usually requires surgical resection of mesial temporal structures. Objective: To describe a novel operative technique for treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy and its clinical results ...
Juan Antonio Castro Flores, Felipe Hada Sanders, Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neurological, Neurodevelopmental and Treatment Outcomes in Patients With Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Deficiency

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The aim of this study was to characterize intellectual and motor function, neurological features including epilepsy, treatment response, and adaptive behavior in patients with pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDCD) in Sweden.
Antri Savvidou, Colin Reilly, Kalliopi Sofou, Sofia Ygberg, Erik A. Eklund, Karin Naess, Niklas Darin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positron emission tomography in presurgical diagnosis of partial epilepsies

, 1992
We present results of studies in which positron emission tomography was applied to the presurgical evaluation of epileptics. Emphasis is placed on results of PET studies with various tracers in partial epilepsies and on the use of PET in age-related ...
Hajek, M. (author), Wieser, H.G. (author), Leenders, K.L. (author)   +2 more
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Nationwide Survey of Association Between Fever and Epileptic Seizure in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder Revealed Therapeutic Implications

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) is a rare, severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. There is a pressing need to develop effective and sustainable therapeutic strategies. We aimed to investigate the causal association between febrile episodes and epileptic seizures for therapeutic implications in CDD patients.
Siyi Wang, Jialin Du, Jinghui Liu, Dongmei Hu, Hongxin Wang, Xiaoxiao Man, Lehong Gao, Shimin Hu, Xianghong Meng, Hongyang Zhao, Minjing Hu, Yingxue Yang, Zhiqi Xiong, Liankun Ren   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive functions, epileptic syndromes and antiepileptic drugs

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1992
Cognitive function of patients on monotherapy specific for their epileptic syndrome has been studied infrequently. We evaluated 7 patients with symptomatic localised epilepsies (SEL) on phenytoin aged 30±12 (mean±standard deviation) years, 8 with ...
Paulo R. M. Bittencourt, Maria Joana Mader, Monica M. Bigarella, Maribel P. Dóro, Ana M. Gorz, Tania M. Marcourakis, Zulma S. Ferreira   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Utility of the APE2 Score as a Diagnostic Tool for Autoimmune Encephalitis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To retrospectively evaluate the diagnostic performance of the Antibody Prevalence in Epilepsy and Encephalopathy (APE2) score relative to clinician‐adjudicated autoimmune encephalitis (AE) and the Graus criteria in a tertiary neuroimmunology referral cohort, including antibody‐negative AE.
Bijoya Basu, Sophia F. Damman, Samhitha M. Rai, Hesham Abboud   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source