Epilepsy and Hyperkinetic Behavior
A 4-year-old boy with benign partial epilepsy and hyperkinetic behavior between seizures is reported from Sapporo Medical University, Japan.
J Gordon Millichap
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The efficacy of oxcarbazepine monotherapy in 60 children and adolescents (aged 6 months to 17.8 years; mean age 8.2 yrs) with partial onset epilepsy was evaluated by retrospective chart review in a study at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children ...
J Gordon Millichap
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The appropriacy of fluency tests in assessing epileptic seizure lateralization in children with partial epilepsy [PDF]
Fluency tests are frequently used in clinical practice to asses executive functions. The literature data are not unequivocal although in a great number of papers is pointed out the importance of the left hemisphere, specially of the left frontal lobes in
Vuksanović Jasmina, Đurić Milena
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Premature mortality in refractory partial epilepsy: does surgical treatment make a difference? [PDF]
Background: Epilepsy carries an increased risk of premature death. For some people with intractable focal epilepsy, surgery offers hope for a seizure-free life.
Scott, C.A. +44 more
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Disrupted functional brain connectivity in partial epilepsy: a resting-state fMRI study.
Examining the spontaneous activity to understand the neural mechanism of brain disorder is a focus in recent resting-state fMRI. In the current study, to investigate the alteration of brain functional connectivity in partial epilepsy in a systematical ...
Cheng Luo +10 more
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CLINICAL AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF LACOSAMIDE IN PATIENTS WITH PARTIAL EPILEPSY
Aims of study: 1) development of a model for forecasting of impact of Lacosamide administration for antiseizure therapy of local convulsions in patients, who are resistant to previous antiseizure therapy, for the account of healthcare and social security
E. A. Pyadushkina, M. Yu. Frolov
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Temporal lobe hypogenesis associated with arachnoid cyst in patients with epilepsy [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of temporal lobe hypogenesis (TLH) associated with arachnoid cysts (AC) in patients with epilepsy. METHOD: We retrospectively revised 655 consecutive MRI scans from patients followed in our epilepsy clinic.
Eliane Kobayashi +3 more
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Orbitofrontal epilepsy: Electroclinical analysis of surgical cases and literature review [PDF]
Clinical and electrographic data were reviewed on 2 of our patients with orbitofrontal epilepsy who were seizure free at 5-year follow-up, and on 2 similar patients from the literature.
Winkler, Peter +4 more
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The role of illness representations in the process of coping and psychosocial adjustment among adults with epilepsy [PDF]
The self-regulation model (Leventhal, Nerenz and Steele, 1984) emphasises the role of cognitive representations of illness and coping efforts on patients responses to health threats.
Kemp, Steven
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NEW OPPORTUNITIES PHARMACOTHERAPY PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY EPILEPSY
Objective: to generalize the Russian experience with perampanel (PER) in routine clinical practice; to do this, the results of its use as an adjuvant partial epilepsy medication were retrospectively assessed. The study is still in progress now; therefore,
P. N. Vlasov
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