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Neuropsychological evaluations, behavior patterns, and outcomes were studied in a retrospective analysis of 10 patients (7 girls, 3 boys) with onset of absence epilepsy before age 3 years, referred between 1986 and 2002 at Hopital Henri Gastaut ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Carbamazepine Exacerbation of Absence Epilepsy
The inappropriate use of carbamazepine (CBZ) in 8 children, and vigabatrin (VGB) in 2, among 18 consecutive referrals of children with resistant typical absence seizures, is reported from St Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospitals, London, UK.
J Gordon Millichap
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Treatment Duration for Absence Epilepsy
The effects of 6 months of treatment followed by a 5- to 6-week withdrawal period of ethosuximide (ESM) in 3 children, ages 5, 10, and 10 years, with new onset absence epilepsy are reported from the Departments of Neurology, State University of New York ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Electroclinical Features of Absence Epilepsy
Clinical and EEG features of absence seizures in 47 children with newly diagnosed, untreated childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) were analyzed using video-EEG recordings, in a study at University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand; British Columbia Children ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Neuronal mechanism of a BK channelopathy in absence epilepsy and dyskinesia
Significance BK channelopathy has been increasingly implicated in diverse neurological disorders, including epilepsy and movement, cognitive, and neurodevelopmental disorders. However, precision medicine to treat BK channelopathy is lacking.
Ping Dong+5 more
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Epilepsy with myoclonic absences. [PDF]
The cases are described of eight children, five of them girls, who had epilepsy with myoclonic absences. The mean age of onset was 4.9 years. Brief episodes of loss of awareness with bilateral clonic jerking of the upper limbs were associated with rhythmic 3 cycles/second spike-wave discharges on electroencephalogram.
S J Wallace, V Manonmani
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Cerebellar output controls generalized spike-and-wave discharge occurence [PDF]
© 2015 The Authors Annals of Neurology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Neurological Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Alva, Parimala+15 more
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Rationale: Low-voltage-activated or T-type Ca2+ channels play a key role in the generation of seizures in absence epilepsy. We have described a homozygous, gain of function substitution mutation (R1584P) in the CaV3.2 T-type Ca2+ channel gene (Cacna1h ...
Pablo M. Casillas-Espinosa+8 more
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EEG phase synchronization during absence seizures
Absence seizures—generalized rhythmic spike-and-wave discharges (SWDs) are the defining property of childhood (CAE) and juvenile (JAE) absence epilepsies. Such seizures are the most compelling examples of pathological neuronal hypersynchrony.
Pawel Glaba+9 more
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Levetiracetam in absence epilepsy [PDF]
The aim of the study was to assess the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of levetiracetam therapy in children and adolescents with absence epilepsy. Twenty‐one participants (11 male, 10 female) with typical absence seizures were enrolled in this prospective study from seven centres in Italy.
Verrotti A+9 more
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