Event-related potentials reveal preserved attention allocation but impaired emotion regulation in patients with epilepsy and comorbid negative affect [PDF]
, 2015 Patients with epilepsy have a high prevalence of comorbid mood disorders. This study aims to evaluate whether negative affect in epilepsy is associated with dysfunction of emotion regulation.
Boon, Paul +6 more
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Deep brain and cortical stimulation for epilepsy [PDF]
, 2014 Background : Despite optimal medical treatment, including epilepsy surgery, many epilepsy patients have uncontrolled seizures. In the last decades, interest has grown in invasive intracranial neurostimulation as a treatment for these patients ...
Anderson +63 more
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An estimate of the prevalence of epilepsy in Sub-Saharan Africa:A systematic analysis [PDF]
, 2012 Epilepsy is a leading serious neurological condition worldwide and has particularly significant physical, economic and social consequences in Sub–Saharan Africa.
Adeloye, Davies +5 more
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Physiological reactivity to spontaneously occurring seizure activity in dogs with epilepsy and their carers [PDF]
, 2017 There is a complex bidirectional relationship between stress and epilepsy. Stressful stimuli and subsequent cortisol release act as a trigger for seizure activity in some individuals with epilepsy, and seizure activity itself may act as a stressor to the
Fowkes, R C, Packer, R M A, Volk, H A
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Detection of temporal-lobe epilepsy with the physiological responses to fear and anxiety [PDF]
, 2020 Epilepsy is a neurological disease caused by an abnormal neuronal activity on a region of the brain, which provokes seizures and the loss of consciousness to its patients. Epilepsy can be very disabling, since patients do not know when crisis or seizures
Perich Pallaruelo, Marta
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Seizure clusters in drug-resistant focal epilepsy. [PDF]
, 2016 We investigated clinical factors associated with seizure clustering in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy and any association between seizure clustering and outcome after surgery.
Asadi-Pooya +12 more
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Training medical students to improve the management of people with epilepsy [PDF]
, 2007 Purpose: To evaluate the knowledge, attitude and perception of medical students prior to and after a training course about epilepsy. Methods: We used a KAP questionnaire with sixty-one questions which assesses knowledge, attitude and practice of epilepsy.
Andrade, MDGG +5 more
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Epilepsy beyond seizures: a review of the impact of epilepsy and its comorbidities on health-related quality of life in dogs [PDF]
Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological conditions in the dog, estimated to affect 0.6 to 0.75 per cent of dogs. Owners of dogs with epilepsy have previously indicated that their dog's quality of life (QoL) is of greatest importance to ...
Packer, R M A, Volk, H A
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Word Adjacency Graph Modeling: Separating Signal From Noise in Big Data [PDF]
, 2016 There is a need to develop methods to analyze Big Data to inform patient-centered interventions for better health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a method to explore Big Data to describe salient health concerns of people with ...
Groves, Doyle +4 more
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Potential therapeutic targeting of BKCa channels in glioblastoma treatment
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.This review summarizes current insights into the role of BKCa and mitoBKCa channels in glioblastoma biology, their potential classification as oncochannels, and the emerging pharmacological strategies targeting these channels, emphasizing the translational challenges in developing BKCa‐directed therapies for glioblastoma treatment.
Kamila Maliszewska‐Olejniczak +4 more
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