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A primary care‐led school‐centered model for epilepsy detection and care among children in India

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective We evaluated whether a primary care‐led, school‐centered epilepsy detection model, delivered through India's national school health program, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), could improve childhood epilepsy detection and the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of teachers and primary healthcare providers.
Sulena Sulena   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Features of the Gestation Course, Delivery, and Postpartum Period in Women with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

open access: yesНеврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика, 2014
We analyzed 42 pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum period records in women with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). In most cases, the course of JME was favorable during pregnancy; so administration of subtherapeutic dosages of AEDs in the first and ...
A. V. Yakunina
doaj   +1 more source

The basal ganglia and the epilepsies

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract The basal ganglia are an evolutionarily conserved neural circuit best known for the selection and sequencing of voluntary movement. Increasing evidence, however, indicates that these structures also play an important role in regulating pathological brain states, including seizures.
Willian Lazarini‐Lopes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acetazolamide Monotherapy for Myoclonic Epilepsy

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 1990
Chronic acetazolamide monotherapy controlled generalized tonic-clonic seizures in 14 of 31 patients with juvenile myoclonic-86-epilepsy treated in the Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, and the ...
J Gordon Millichap
doaj   +1 more source

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy with photosensitivity in a female with Velocardiofacial syndrome (del(22)(q11.2))--causal relationship or coincidence?

open access: yes, 2009
We report on an adolescent female with Velocardiofacial syndrome (del(22)(q11.2)) and an epilepsy phenotype resembling juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). Clinically, the patient has characteristic signs of both disorders.
Beck-Wödl, S   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Risk-taking behavior in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) often present with risk-taking behavior, suggestive of frontal lobe dysfunction. Recent studies confirm functional and microstructural changes within the frontal lobes in JME.
Stretton, Jason   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Neurometabolite abnormalities and associations with epilepsy duration and cognition in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsies

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This study investigated whether idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGEs) are associated with neuroinflammation by measuring neurometabolite levels and brain temperature using whole‐brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging (MRSI).
Yun Lien   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

CHD2 variants are a risk factor for photosensitivity in epilepsy. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Photosensitivity is a heritable abnormal cortical response to flickering light, manifesting as particular electroencephalographic changes, with or without seizures. Photosensitivity is prominent in a very rare epileptic encephalopathy due to de novo CHD2
Cantonetti, L.   +122 more
core   +1 more source

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: Under-diagnosed syndrome

open access: yes, 2011
Introduction. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is an idiopathic, hereditary form of epilepsy. Although juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is a well defined clinical syndrome, attempts at diagnosing it commonly fail. Etiopathogenesis.
Ksenija Bozic   +4 more
core   +1 more source

The hidden burden of sleep in adolescents with idiopathic generalized epilepsy

open access: yesEpileptic Disorders, Volume 28, Issue 5, Page 1520-1531, October 2026.
Abstract Background Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies (IGEs) are electroclinical syndromes characterized by distinct seizure types, EEG patterns, and presumed polygenic inheritance. While seizure prognosis is often favorable, sleep disturbances, behavioral and emotional difficulties, and executive function impairment are common, especially during ...
Carlo Alberto Quaranta   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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