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Neurocognitive Profile of Absence Epilepsy Syndrome

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 2001
Cognitive and language function was determined in 16 children (mean age, 9.2 years; range 6-16) with absence epilepsy compared to 16 controls at the University of Catania, Italy.
J Gordon Millichap
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Cortical thickness and sulcal depth: insights on development and psychopathology in paediatric epilepsy. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BackgroundThe relationship between cortical thickness (CThick) and sulcal depth (SDepth) changes across brain regions during development. Epilepsy youth have CThick and SDepth abnormalities and prevalent psychiatric disorders.AimsThis study compared the ...
Caplan, Rochelle   +3 more
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Behavioral and Cognitive Comorbidities in Genetic Rat Models of Absence Epilepsy (Focusing on GAERS and WAG/Rij Rats)

open access: yesBiomedicines
Absence epilepsy is a non-convulsive type of epilepsy characterized by the sudden loss of awareness. It is associated with thalamo-cortical impairment, which may cause neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive problems.
Evgenia Sitnikova
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Genetics of Early Childhood Absence Epilepsy

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 1994
The clinical and EEG family data of 140 cases of early childhood epilepsy with absences selected from the epilepsy family archive are reported from the Neuropaediatric Department of the University of Kiel, Germany.
J Gordon Millichap
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Reduced neurosteroid potentiation of GABAA receptors in epilepsy and depolarized hippocampal neurons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Neurosteroids regulate neuronal excitability by potentiating γ-aminobutyric acid type-A receptors (GABARs). In animal models of temporal lobe epilepsy, the neurosteroid sensitivity of GABARs is diminished and GABAR subunit composition is ...
Jansen, Laura A   +3 more
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Childhood Absence Epilepsy

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Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a common epilepsy syndrome characterized by absence seizures affecting young children and representing 18% of all diagnosed cases of epilepsy in school-age children. Absence seizures are classically very frequent during the day and each seizure lasts a short time, from about 10 to 20 seconds, it ends abruptly, and ...
Vetri, Luigi   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Long-term prognosis of childhood absence epilepsy

open access: yesNeurología (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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Animal models of absence epilepsies: What do they model and do sex and sex hormones matter?

open access: yesNeurobiology of Disease, 2014
While epidemiological data suggest a female prevalence in human childhood- and adolescence-onset typical absence epilepsy syndromes, the sex difference is less clear in adult-onset syndromes.
Gilles van Luijtelaar   +2 more
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Benign Epilepsy in Children

open access: yesJournal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2011
The diagnosis of benign epilepsy syndrome should meet the following criteria: age-related and self-limited; good response to medication; and no obvious neurological sequelae after seizure. However, the current concept of benign epilepsy syndrome has been
Sook-Cheng Chan, Wang-Tso Lee
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