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Video-EEG in Diagnosis of Epilepsy in Retarded Children

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 2002
Video-EEG monitoring was used to distinguish epileptic and non-epileptic events in 193 children, mean age 9.6 years, who presented with paroxysmal symptoms of uncertain etiology at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, CA.
J Gordon Millichap
doaj   +1 more source

Human brain evolution and the "Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle:" Implications for the Reclassification of fear-circuitry-related traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to warzone-related posttraumatic stress disorder. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis.
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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Multidimensional Profiling of MRI‐Negative Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Uncovers Distinct Phenotypes

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Although hippocampal sclerosis (TLE‐HS) represents the most frequent cause of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), up to 30% of patients show no lesion on visual MRI inspection (TLE‐MRIneg). These cases pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges and are underrepresented in surgical series.
Alice Ballerini   +28 more
wiley   +1 more source

Video-EEG long term monitoring as a new service at Mater Dei Hospital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Introduction: Video-EEG long-term monitoring (LTM) was introduced into Mater Dei Hospital (MDH) in May 2012. The audit aims to evaluate LTM in terms of diagnostic outcomes and impact on patient management.
Aquilina, Josanne   +4 more
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Rüdin's Unpublished Family Study From the Early 1920s: “On the Inheritance of Manic‐Depressive Insanity”

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ernst Rüdin, an important and controversial figure in the history of psychiatric genetics, published only one major empirical study on siblings of dementia praecox (DP) probands in 1916. He conducted a parallel study of siblings of probands with manic‐depressive insanity (MDI), but the resulting monograph, written in the early 1920s, was left ...
Kenneth S. Kendler, Astrid Klee
wiley   +1 more source

Driving a motor vehicle and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: ILAE Report by the Task Force on Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, 2020
Objectives This International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Report: (a) summarizes the literature about “driving and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES)”; (b) presents the views of international experts; and (c) proposes an approach to assessing ...
Ali A. Asadi‐Pooya   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the impact of a computer‐aided diagnostic score on the clinical diagnosis of functional seizures

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective The diagnosis of functional/dissociative seizures (FDS) without ictal video‐electroencephalography is challenging. The Functional/Dissociative Seizures Likelihood Score (FSLS) is a machine learning‐based diagnostic score that aims to help clinicians identify FDS.
Wesley T. Kerr   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chest Pain in Children: Is It Another “Growing Pain”?

open access: yesPaediatric & Neonatal Pain
Chest pain is a common complaint among children that has a non‐cardiac origin in 99% of pediatric cases. We conducted a literature review of the different proposed etiologies of pediatric chest pain, as well as the evidence base supporting current ...
Mia Kassab   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychogenic polydipsia: A diagnostic challenge

open access: yesCurrent Medicine Research and Practice
Primary polydipsia (PP) is a disorder that is clinically characterised by excessive thirst accompanied by increased fluid intake and subsequent excessive excretion of urine without an obvious cause.
Rashmi Rasi Datta   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Functionality of symptoms and interpersonal communication in home video recordings of functional/dissociative versus epileptic seizures

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Conceptualizing functional/dissociative seizures (FDS) as resulting from dissociation, or conversion, we hypothesized that, compared to epileptic seizures (ES), FDS should carry more symbolic or communicative content and that this would allow observers to distinguish FDS from ES.
Nayrin Dissouky   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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