Siddhartha Nadkarni, MD, Director. Duration: 1-2 years. For candidates who have completed an ACGME-accredited neurology residency and an ACGME approved Clinical Neurophysiology or Epilepsy Fellowship. This is an Non-ACGME-accredited fellowship program. The educational purpose of the program is to primarily give fellows already trained in clinical neurophysiology or clinical epilepsy the opportunity to apply their knowledge to epilepsy research and obtain further training in scalp/ intracranial EEG, electrocorticography, cortical mapping, as well as clinical management of patients with epilepsy.. Contact:. Siddhartha Nadkarni, ...

The present study shows an association between shorter duration of epilepsy and better seizure outcome after resective epilepsy surgery in a systematic review and meta-analysis. The discussion about the importance of earlier epilepsy surgery has been around for a long time and motivated US researchers to initiate an ambitious RCT, ERSET, to determine whether surgery in patients with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy soon after failure of 2 antiepileptic drug trials is superior to continued medical management.2 A sample size of 200 participants was originally planned, but the trial had to be terminated prematurely. Only 38 patients were recruited with a mean epilepsy duration of 10.9 years,2 which though it may seem rather long is much shorter than the mean epilepsy duration of 19.7 years in the first randomized controlled trial.1 Nevertheless, even in this limited cohort, resective surgery and antiepileptic drug treatment resulted in a lower probability of seizures during the second year of ...

Lacosamide vs Controlled-Release Carbamazepine Monotherapy as Initial Epilepsy Treatment. Information sourced from NEJM Journal Watch:. Lacosamide vs. Controlled-Release Carbamazepine Monotherapy as Initial Epilepsy Treatment. Lacosamide was no less effective for new-onset seizures in patients with clinically suspected partial epilepsy.. Nearly all new antiepilepsy medications (AEDs) obtain initial indications as adjunctive (add-on) therapy in patients with medically uncontrolled epilepsy, yet most patients are treated (or wish to be) with only one medicine. Very few head-to-head comparisons have been done between new AEDs and older medications with established efficacy in the largest generalizable populations: those with new-onset seizures or those that can be controlled with one AED. Lacosamide (LCM) is FDA-approved as monotherapy based on historical controls and is not approved as monotherapy in Europe. This large international, double-blind, randomized, manufacturer-sponsored study compared ...

TORONTO, ON (March 6, 2012) - Today at Queens Park, 40 members of Ontarios epilepsy community, led by Epilepsy Ontario and the Epilepsy Cure Initiative, gathered to meet with MPPs and policy advisors to increase awareness of epilepsy within government and advocate for the implementation of an Ontario Epilepsy Strategy. The key topics of discussion included the impact of epilepsy on Ontarians, consistent standards of patient care, improved access to treatment and disability and employment supports.. Recently, the Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee released recommendations to improve access to and standardize epilepsy care in Ontario which we strongly support as the foundation for a provincial epilepsy strategy, said Rozalyn Werner-Arcé, Executive Director, Epilepsy Ontario. On behalf of Ontarians living with epilepsy, their families and employers, we ask the government to ensure it incorporates the key role of community epilepsy organizations in the implementation of this ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Status epilepticus in a population-based cohort with childhood-onset epilepsy in Finland. AU - Sillanpää, Matti. AU - Shinnar, Shlomo. PY - 2002/9/1. Y1 - 2002/9/1. N2 - Little is known about the time course over which status epilepticus occurs in childhood-onset epilepsy and its impact on long-term prognosis. A population-based cohort of 150 children younger than age 16 years with new onset epilepsy between 1961 and 1964 residing in the catchment area of Turku University Hospital was observed prospectively until 1997. The occurrence of status epilepticus and recurrent status epilepticus, risk factors for status epilepticus, and the impact of status epilepticus on prognosis were examined. Of the 150 cases, 41 patients (27%) experienced an episode of status epilepticus of whom 22 patients (56%) had two or more episodes. The risk of status epilepticus was highest at the onset of the disorder with 30 (73%) cases occurring before (n = 12) or at (n = 18) onset and 37 (90%) cases ...

Epilepsy, also known as seizure disorder, is a common disease of the brain affecting about one percent of the population. It can affect any person at any age. More than 36,000 Mississippians live with epilepsy. Recognized as the states only level 4 epilepsy center accredited by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers, University of Mississippi Medical Center provides comprehensive testing and treatment for patients of all ages.University Comprehensive Epilepsy Center is dedicated to the care of people with epilepsy. The center offers state-of-the-art medical and surgical treatment of seizures/epilepsy in adults and children. Our goal is to help patients gain control of seizures and optimize their quality of life.Diagnosis, Treatment, and ReferralsA full complement of advanced diagnostic tests is available for seizures diagnosis, classification, and evaluation for surgical treatment of epilepsy. The centers inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit combines video and EEG monitoring of patients to

According to a recent study, children with Rolandic epilepsy should receive treatment in order to reduce their risk of cognitive and behavioural problems.BackgroundRolandic epilepsy is the most common form of childhood focal epilepsy syndrome, accounting for 15-20% of epilepsies in people aged b ...

In July 2007, Patrick Horan was on a mission in Iraq when he suffered a catastrophic head wound resulting in a devastating traumatic brain injury (TBI). With his wife Patty at his side, Patrick struggled through months of recovery only to have much of his progress suddenly eliminated by grand mal seizures with the onset of post traumatic epilepsy (PTE).As Veterans Day nears, we speak with former U.S. Army Captain Patrick Horan and his wife Patty on this weeks episode of Seizing Life. The Horans describe the circumstances around Pats near-fatal injury, the amazing efforts of soldiers and medical personnel to save Pats life, the sudden, shocking onset of epilepsy months into Pats recovery process, and the long battle they have waged against PTE. As long-time supporters and friends of CURE Epilepsy, Patrick and Patty are dedicated to raising awareness and funding for post traumatic epilepsy research.TBI accounts for 20% of symptomatic epilepsy in the general population and 5% of all epilepsy*.

Background: Treatment of pediatric epilepsy has advanced with the development of new antiepileptic drugs. The European Medicines Agency recommends that more research into pediatric drugs for epilepsy is needed.. Objectives: To characterize utilization of antiepileptic drugs in children with a specific emphasis on newer antiepileptic drugs.. Methods: Data were obtained from the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database for the period 2004-2006, including prescription data of more than 14 million insurance members from all over Germany. Descriptive analyses were perfomed to assess prevalence and incidence of antiepileptic drug use stratified by age and sex. Mono- and combination therapy were considered as well as the clinical speciality of the prescribing physician.. Results: We identified 13,197 children who received a total of 226,856 antiepileptic drug dispensations. Of these, 140,992 (62.15%) were conventional and 85,864 (37.85%) were newer antiepileptic drugs. Most commonly prescribed ...

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Aim. To study the efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy in a highly drug-resistant childhood epilepsy patient group and to investigate the effect of age at implantation on efficacy. Methods. The efficacy of VNS treatment was analysed in a cohort of 70 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. Both children with focal (n=16) and generalized epilepsies (n=54) were included. Age at implantation varied between 19 months and 25 years. Results. Overall, responder rate was 54% with 5.7% children becoming seizure-free. The only factor in our analysis that could predict good outcome was age at implantation. In the youngest group ...

Get information on the types of pediatric epilepsy surgery and the symptoms, treatment, and causes of childhood epilepsy. Learn about epilepsy surgery recovery, side effects, and the procedure for epilepsy surgery. Discover the three main surgical types, including resective.

In this cohort of 519 patients, 60 (11.6%) had epileptic seizures associated with SLE disease activity. The frequency of epileptic seizures in previous studies ranged between 8.3 and 28%.1,5-10,21⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓ Epileptic seizures at disease onset were identified in 19 (31.7%) of these 60 patients. Epileptic seizures occurred after the onset of the disease in 41 (68.3%) patients. Fifty-three (88.3%) patients had a single epileptic seizure episode, and 7 (11.7%) had recurrent epileptic seizures. Generalized tonic-clonic and complex partial seizures were the most common epileptic seizures observed in this study. At disease onset, epileptic seizures were associated with stroke and the presence of moderate to higher titers of IgG antiphospholipid antibodies. The association between higher titers of antiphospholipid antibodies and seizures has been demonstrated previously.2,4,9,22-26⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓. Epileptic seizures may occur in isolation or accompany other neurologic ...

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article{6985217, abstract = {This study, supported by the Rwandan Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization, was conducted in 2005 to determine the prevalence of epilepsy and its sociocultural perception in Rwanda, as well as epilepsy-related knowledge and practices of health-care professionals (HCPs). A cross-sectional, nationally representative survey was conducted throughout Rwanda by trained investigators. Participants were recruited by random cluster sampling based on the organization of administrative units in the country. Overall, 1137 individuals (62% from rural areas) were interviewed. The prevalence of epilepsy was estimated to be 49 per 1000 people or 41 per 1000 for active epilepsy. Onset of epilepsy before the age of 2 years was reported in 32% of the cases. Family history of epilepsy, head trauma, and premature delivery were reported in 53%, 50%, and 68% of the cases, respectively. Most (68%) patients did not receive any medical treatment for epilepsy; 21.5% had received ...

1. Baxendale S. The representation of epilepsy in popular music. Epilepsy Behav. 2008; 12(1):165-169. 2. Tuft M, Nakken KO. Epilepsy and stigma in popular music. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2014;134:2290-3. 3. Kuscu DY, Kayrak N, Karasu A, Gul G, Kirbas D. Ictal singing due to left mesial temporal sclerosis. Epileptic Disord. 2008;10(2):173-6. 4. Barker AS, Bowen JR, Sharrack B, Sarrigiannis PG. Tap dancing in epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2011;20(1):150-1. 5. Bagla R, Khoury JS, Skidmore C. Teaching Video NeuroImages: dancing epilepsy. Neurology. 2009; 72(22):e114. 6. Janz D. Epilepsy, viewed metaphysically: an interpretation of the biblical story of the epileptic boy and of Raphaels transfiguration. Epilepsia. 1986;27(4):316-22. 7. Mann MW. The epileptic seizure and the mystery of death in Christian painting. Epilepsy Behav. 2010; 17(2):139-46. ...

Purpose: The restricted genetic diversity and homogeneous molecular basis of Mendelian disorders in isolated founder populations have rarely been explored in epilepsy research. Our long-term goal is to explore the genetic basis of epilepsies in one such population, the Gypsies. The aim of this report is the clinical and genetic characterization of a Gypsy family with a partial epilepsy syndrome. Methods: Clinical information was collected using semistructured interviews with affected subjects and informants. At least one interictal electroencephalography (EEG) recording was performed for each patient and previous data obtained from records. Neuroimaging included structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Linkage and haplotype analysis was performed using the Illumina IVb Linkage Panel, supplemented with highly informative microsatellites in linked regions and Affymetrix SNP 5.0 array data. Results: We observed an early-onset partial epilepsy syndrome with seizure semiology strongly suggestive ...

New research reveals a shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and migraine. Findings published in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), indicate that having a strong family history of seizure disorders increases the chance of having migraine with aura (MA).. Medical evidence has established that migraine and epilepsy often co-occur in patients; this co-occurrence is called comorbidity. Previous studies have found that people with epilepsy are substantially more likely than the general population to have migraine headache. However, it is not clear whether that comorbidity results from a shared genetic cause.. Epilepsy and migraine are each individually influenced by genetic factors, explains lead author Dr. Melodie Winawer from Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Our study is the first to confirm a shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and migraine in a large population of patients with common forms of epilepsy.. For the present study, ...

The temporal lobe would be the part in red. Only the left temporal lobe is shown.. The temporal lobe is separated into 2 parts: right and left. Its responsible for auditory processing, processing of semantic & lexical information in speech, and long-term memory. On the other hand, epilepsy aka seizure disorder is a common neurological disorder that causes recurrent & unprovoked seizures in patients. These seizures happen when clusters of neurons fire excessively/abnormally/synchronously. Combine these two, and youve got temporal lobe epilepsy.. Temporal lobe epilepsy causes simple and complex partial seizures. Simple partial seizures simply cause unusual behaviours and patterns of cognition, including hallucinations and paranormal experiences; complex partial seizures can render the patient disabled and lose awareness temporarily. If one is unlucky though, it may spread and become a tonic-clonic seizure, a type of seizure that affects the entire brain, and is much more lethal.. ...

The temporal lobe would be the part in red. Only the left temporal lobe is shown.. The temporal lobe is separated into 2 parts: right and left. Its responsible for auditory processing, processing of semantic & lexical information in speech, and long-term memory. On the other hand, epilepsy aka seizure disorder is a common neurological disorder that causes recurrent & unprovoked seizures in patients. These seizures happen when clusters of neurons fire excessively/abnormally/synchronously. Combine these two, and youve got temporal lobe epilepsy.. Temporal lobe epilepsy causes simple and complex partial seizures. Simple partial seizures simply cause unusual behaviours and patterns of cognition, including hallucinations and paranormal experiences; complex partial seizures can render the patient disabled and lose awareness temporarily. If one is unlucky though, it may spread and become a tonic-clonic seizure, a type of seizure that affects the entire brain, and is much more lethal.. ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review summarizes recent evidence on the seizure, safety, cognitive and psychosocial outcomes of epilepsy surgery and their predictors. RECENT FINDINGS: Risks of serious surgical complications have dramatically decreased over years to drop below 1% for temporal lobe resections. Although chances of postoperative seizure freedom largely vary between recent series, some data suggest that long-term seizure control might be achieved in over 80% of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy or neocortical epilepsy associated with type 2 focal cortical dysplasia, and in up to two-thirds of patients with extratemporal lobe epilepsy. In the same conditions, some recent series challenge the classic view that a normal MRI is associated with worse outcome, an important finding given the greater proportion of MRI-negative patients now considered for epilepsy surgery. SUMMARY: These provocative findings appear to partly reflect the advances in the optimal use or postprocessi

Early-onset absence epilepsy refers to patients with absence seizures beginning before age four and comprises a heterogeneous group of epilepsies. Onset of absence seizures in the first year of life is very rare. We report a girl with intractable absence seizures with onset at age eight months. Her seizures were characterised by loss of responsiveness, with eyes drifting upwards and some myoclonic jerks of the upper and lower limbs. These symptoms were accompanied by bilaterally symmetric high-amplitude 2-2.5 Hz generalised spike-and-wave discharges on the electroencephalogram. Her seizures were refractory to conventional antiepileptic drugs; treatment with adrenocorticotropic hormone was transiently effective. Comprehensive metabolic screening, cytogenetic, and genetic analysis did not determine an underlying cause of her condition. Patients with intractable, very early-onset absence epilepsy with a myoclonic component have an unfavourable outcome and may be classified under a new epileptic ...

To evaluate the efficacy of steroid therapy in epileptic encephalopathies and refractory epilepsies other than West syndrome. Retrospective analysis of treatment and outcome data of patients treated with steroids for epileptic encephalopathies. Outco

AIM: The aim of this study was to define the prevalence of and risk factors for behavioural disorders in children with epilepsy from a rural district of Tanzania by conducting a community-based case-control study. METHOD: One hundred and twelve children aged 6 to 14 years (55 males, 57 females; median age 12 y) with active epilepsy (at least two unprovoked seizures in the last 5 y) were identified in a cross-sectional survey and included in this study. Children who were younger than 6 years were excluded in order to eliminate febrile seizures. Behaviour was assessed using the Rutter scale; children who scored 13 or more were considered to have disordered behaviour. A comparison group was made up of age- and sex-matched children without epilepsy (n = 113; 57 males, 56 females; median age 12 y). RESULTS: Behavioural disorders were diagnosed in 68 of 103 (66%) children with epilepsy and in 19 of 99 (19%) controls. Disordered behaviour was significantly more common in children with epilepsy than in the

The unprovoked epileptic seizure is considered to be one with no cause, which excludes seizures connected with acute infections, traumas, central nervous system haemorrhages or metabolic disorders (disorders of the homeostasis-acidosis, hypoglicaemia, electrolyte dysbalance). The decision whether to treat the first unprovoked epileptic seizure, the risk of repeated seizure or development into epilepsy in children and young adolescents may be found in the instructions based on evidence. Analysis of the evidence based data points out that a number of children will have another seizure in a certain time period or will develop epilepsy regardless of antiepileptic drug therapy; therefore, a decision to start therapy has to be made on an individual basis. The retrospective study was conducted at the Neuropaediatric Department of the University Hospital Sisters of Mercy, which showed that 29 out of 226 children staying on the ward developed a second unprovoked epileptic seizure. Broad diagnostic ...

TY - GEN. T1 - Dynamic seizure imaging in patients with extratemporal lobe epilepsy. AU - Lu, Yunfeng. AU - Yang, Lin. AU - Worrell, Gregory A.. AU - Brinkmann, Benjamin. AU - Nelson, Cindy. AU - He, Bin. PY - 2012/12/14. Y1 - 2012/12/14. N2 - Epilepsy is a common neurological disease that affects about 50 million people worldwide. Extratemporal lobe epilepsy, which represents an important type of epilepsy, may involve seizure activity in various lobes and the surgical treatment in these patients tends to have less favorable surgical outcome. Noninvasive seizure imaging in drug-resistant patients is of vital importance to image the seizure onset zones (SOZs) and understand the mechanisms for an improved treatment plan. In this study, we directly imaged the seizure sources in 8 extratemporal lobe partial epilepsy patients from noninvasive EEG. The surgically resected regions and SOZs identified from intracranial EEG (iEEG) recordings were used to evaluate the source imaging results. All of the ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Epilepsy surgery of low grade epilepsy associated neuroepithelial tumors: A retrospective nationwide Italian study. AU - Giulioni, M.. AU - Marucci, G.. AU - Pelliccia, V.. AU - Gozzo, F.. AU - Barba, C.. AU - Didato, G.. AU - Villani, F.. AU - Di Gennaro, G.. AU - Quarato, P.P.. AU - Esposito, V.. AU - Consales, A.. AU - Martinoni, M.. AU - Vornetti, G.. AU - Zenesini, C.. AU - Efisio Marras, C.. AU - Specchio, N.. AU - De Palma, L.. AU - Rocchi, R.. AU - Giordano, F.. AU - Tringali, G.. AU - Nozza, P.. AU - Colicchio, G.. AU - Rubboli, G.. AU - Lo Russo, G.. AU - Guerrini, R.. AU - Tinuper, P.. AU - Cardinale, F.. AU - Cossu, M.. AU - Epilepsy, the Commission for Epilepsy Surgery of the Italian League Against. N1 - Export Date: 23 February 2018 Extracted concepts Epilepsy PY - 2017. Y1 - 2017. U2 - 10.1111/epi.13866. DO - 10.1111/epi.13866. M3 - Article. VL - 58. SP - 1832. EP - 1841. JO - Epilepsia. JF - Epilepsia. SN - 0013-9580. IS - 11. ER - ...

Epilepsy Southwestern Ontario would like to thank all thank all guests, sponsors, donors and volunteers who participated in our Game Show Gala!. We are sincerely overwhelmed with the continued success of the gala, all of which would not be possible without our sponsor and donors.. We are happy to announce that this years Gala surpassed our goal, raising over $30,000!! Proceeds from the event will help us to further our mission by providing education and support services.. Our Game Show Gala was hosted at Brookside Banquet Centre on April 7, 2018.. Epilepsy Southwestern Ontario has been presenting a H.O.P.E. award (Helping Out People with Epilepsy) since 2005. Each year, it is awarded to an individual, group of individuals or organization who has demonstrated compassion and caring for people living with epilepsy. This is Epilepsy Southwestern Ontarios highest honour and we are pleased that the Ontario Brain Institute & EpLink (the Epilepsy Research Program of OBI) have been chosen to receive ...

Both men and women with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the most common focal epilepsy in adults, are at higher risk of developing reproductive endocrine hormone disorders, but the mechanisms linking epilepsy to reproductive co-morbidities are unknown. Reproductive endocrine disorders significantly impact quality of life and can drive elevated risks for other comorbidities. Former CURE Epilepsy grantee Dr. Christian-Hinmans team is investigating the impacts of epilepsy on gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the brain using a mouse model of TLE. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone is an important hormone that results in production of testosterone in men and estrogen and progesterone in women. This research has therapeutic potential to improve reproductive endocrine health, seizure control, and quality of life for patients with epilepsy ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Modeling of intracerebral interictal epileptic discharges. T2 - Evidence for network interactions. AU - Meesters, Stephan. AU - Ossenblok, Pauly. AU - Colon, Albert. AU - Wagner, Louis. AU - Schijns, Olaf. AU - Boon, Paul. AU - Florack, Luc. AU - Fuster, Andrea. PY - 2018/6/1. Y1 - 2018/6/1. KW - Stereo-electroencephalography. KW - Analysis framework. KW - Interictal epileptic discharges. KW - Spatiotemporal network interaction. KW - Epilepsy surgery. KW - TEMPORAL-LOBE EPILEPSY. KW - INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS. KW - EPILEPTOGENIC NETWORKS. KW - SOURCE LOCALIZATION. KW - BLIND SEPARATION. KW - CLUSTER-ANALYSIS. KW - BRAIN NETWORKS. KW - EEG. KW - SIGNALS. KW - SEEG. U2 - 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.03.021. DO - 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.03.021. M3 - Article. VL - 129. SP - 1276. EP - 1290. JO - Clinical Neurophysiology. JF - Clinical Neurophysiology. SN - 1388-2457. IS - 6. ER - ...

Learn how Focal Cortical Dysplasia is diagnosed and the seizure types that may be seen with it. GARD Answers GARD Answers Listen. CAUTION patients with focal cortical dysplasia, who have earlier age of seizure onset, may have a change in their seizure types over time, with the emergence of epileptic spasms or generalized seizure types, such as atypical absences, atonic and tonic seizures. Epub 2020 Jan 20. COVID-19 is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation. Malformations of cortical development and epilepsies: neuropathological findings with emphasis on focal cortical dysplasia. Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! As FCD type II cannot be diagnosed with certainty in the clinic, in vivo identification by use of MRI is important. Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a congenital abnormality of brain development where the neurons in an area of the brain failed to migrate in the proper formation in utero. Epileptic Disord. It is characterized by epileptic seizures that ...

We have developed a number or resources to help gain more knowledge about epilepsy and ways to improve seizure control and quality of life. Many of these resources are for a broad audience while others are targeted toward a more specific audience.. E-quip, An Epilepsy Resource for Youth: Specifically designed for youth, this resource covers topics concerning youth and has a number of videos with young people discussing their experiences.. rEaction: This resource is also aimed at youth with a focus on increasing epilepsy awareness for friends and peers of people with epilepsy.. Strong Foundations: This resource is designed to help parents with a child attending mainstream school to identify if their child is experiencing epilepsy-related learning challenges. It aims to give parents ideas about how to support their child to achieve their potential.. There are two free short online courses for school aged children to learn about epilepsy. Epilepsy Awareness. ...

Conjoint A/Prof Annie Bye has an extensive portfolio of research into paediatric epilepsy and neurology, with over 70 original research articles together with 70 abstracts published in international and national peer reviewed journals. Research topics include neonatal seizures, neuropsychological and language profiles in paediatric epilepsy, MRI correlates of childhood epilepsy syndromes, quality of life in paediatric epilepsy, and education of epilepsy to patients and medical staff. This research has been supported by NHMRC, Ramichotti, Brain Foundation and Sydney Childrens Hospital Foundation funding bodies. She was awarded her MD for publications in epilepsy in 1996. Current Research Projects:. 1) The diagnostic yield of a genomic approach to infantile epileptic encephalopathy. 2) Paediatric Epilepsy Network. This is a major project to raise minimal standards of care in management of paediatric epilepsy across NSW. This work commenced in 2010. It has been funded by NSW Health (Statewide ...

ABSTRACTPatients with refractory epilepsy face an elevated risk of sudden death, with rates as high as 1% per year. This phenomenon, known as sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), is believed to be a seizure-related occurrence, but the exact underlying mechanisms are uncertain. Both pulmonary and cardiac pathophysiologies have been proposed. The cardiac mechanism of greatest interest is the precipitation of arrhythmias by seizure discharges via the autonomic nervous system. SUDEP prevention has centered on effective seizure control, and epilepsy surgery has reduced SUDEP incidence in a number of studies. Additional prophylaxis methods are needed, however, for the large number of patients with treatment-refractory epilepsy. Future research should aim to clarify whether the association between seizures and autonomic dysfunction and cardiac arrhythmias extends to a demonstrable cardiac mechanism for SUDEP.

OBJECTIVES: The prognostic value of acute postoperative seizures (APS) after epilepsy surgery is much debated. This study evaluated APS, defined as seizures in the first week post-surgery, as a predictor of long-term seizure outcome, and investigated the utility of other potential outcome predictors.. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Medical records of 48 patients with temporal and extra-temporal epilepsy surgery were studied. Forty patients had lesional surgery. All had at least 2 year postoperative follow-up.. RESULTS: At 2 year follow-up, 25 patients (53%) were seizure free. Univariate analysis showed that APS (P = 0.048), using ≥ six AEDs prior to surgery (P = 0.03), pathological postoperative EEG (P = 0.043) and female gender (P = 0.012) were associated with seizure recurrence.. CONCLUSIONS: Univariate analysis indicate that APS, a high number of AEDs used prior to surgery, and pathological postoperative EEG are possible predictors of seizure recurrence after epilepsy surgery. Only gender retained ...

FRIDAY, April 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The main focus of epilepsy treatment is seizure control, but the aftereffects of seizures are also a major concern for many patients, experts say.. More than 70% of people with epilepsy say they have complications after a seizure -- including confusion, fear, exhaustion, headache, emotional reactivity, memory problems and behavioral changes -- that can last for hours or days, according to the International League Against Epilepsy.. In most cases, there are no treatments for these complications and why they occur is poorly understood. Currently, preventing seizures that trigger these complications is the only option.. Complications such as fear and confusion after a seizure can sometimes cause a patient to become aggressive if a bystander or first responder doesnt understand how to interact with a person whos just had a seizure, according to the league.. Fear and confusion are so common after a seizure that many epilepsy centers have had ...

Epilepsy is a chronic disorder that often requires long-term antiepileptic drug treatment; unfortunately, these drugs can have long-term side effects. Until recently, many physicians were reluctant to discontinue antiepileptic drugs because the risk for seizure recurrence was thought to be dangerously high. The study by Berg and Shinnar suggests that patients may have a better chance of remaining seizure-free than previously thought. By using meta-analysis, the authors evaluated a comprehensive group of primary studies that focused on seizure relapse after discontinuation of antiepileptic drugs. The review was carefully designed with no important methodologic problems. The risk for seizure relapse after antiepileptic drug withdrawal at 1 year was 25%, which represents the lowest risk for recurrence in patients with the most favorable clinical features. Berg and Shinnar assessed 3 clinical features that modified the recurrence risk. The risk was increased for adult- and adolescent-onset compared ...

Purpose: To study long-term postoperative course and identify predictors for postoperative seizure control in patients with medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) associated with hippocampal sclerosis (HS), diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ascertained histopathologically. To compare patients becoming seizure-free (i.e., cured from epilepsy) and patients experiencing prolonged seizure-free periods interposed with recurring seizures.. Methods: One hundred thirty-five patients (74 women) underwent complete evaluation for epilepsy surgery. The predictive value of duration of epilepsy, age at onset, age at surgery, gender, febrile convulsion history, ictal dystonic posturing, unilateral interictal electroencephalography (EEG) discharges (IED), preoperative secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures (SGTCS), and preoperative seizure frequency for short- and long-term postoperative seizure control were evaluated with two classification systems: Classification 1 ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Unsupervised classification of high-frequency oscillations in human neocortical epilepsy and control patients. AU - Blanco, Justin A.. AU - Stead, Matt. AU - Krieger, Abba. AU - Viventi, Jonathan. AU - Marsh, W. Richard. AU - Lee, Kendall H.. AU - Worrell, Gregory A.. AU - Litt, Brian. PY - 2010/11/1. Y1 - 2010/11/1. N2 - High-frequency oscillations (HFOs) have been observed in animal and human intracranial recordings during both normal and aberrant brain states. It has been proposed that the relationship between subclasses of these oscillations can be used to identify epileptic brain. Studies of HFOs in epilepsy have been hampered by selection bias arising primarily out of the need to reduce the volume of data so that clinicians can manually review it. In this study, we introduce an algorithm for detecting and classifying these signals automatically and demonstrate the tractability of analyzing a data set of unprecedented size, over 31,000 channel-hours of intracranial ...

One of Epilepsy Irelands key objectives is to undertake, encourage and fund research into all aspects of epilepsy. Epilepsy mortality has been identified as a key area where high calibre research is urgently needed worldwide and even within Ireland , there are many researchers with the interest and expertise to conduct this much needed research. Epilepsy Ireland has partnered with UK charity SUDEP Action and with UCC and Sheffield University to set up the Epilepsy Deaths Register for Ireland. The Register is based on the UK Epilepsy Deaths register launched in 2013 and shares much of the same infrastructure and personnel. The Epilepsy Deaths Register for Ireland was launched in 2015 and will provide:. ...

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Some children born to mothers with rheumatoid arthritis may have higher-than-average odds of developing epilepsy, a new study suggests.. Children born to mothers with rheumatoid arthritis were one-third more likely to develop epilepsy by age 4 than other children. The risk of epilepsy later in childhood was one-quarter higher for those born to moms with rheumatoid arthritis, the study found.. But, experts stressed that the findings dont prove that a mothers rheumatoid arthritis causes epilepsy. So far, only an association has been found.. And even if children of women with rheumatoid arthritis have a higher epilepsy risk than other kids do, the odds are still low.. In the study of nearly 2 million children, the vast majority of those born to moms with rheumatoid arthritis did not develop epilepsy, said lead researcher Ane Lilleore Rom, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.. Still, she said, the findings raise the possibility that when a ...

The Report on Epilepsy in Latin America and the Caribbean (2013) prepared by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) with the support of the International League against Epilepsy and the International Bureau for Epilepsy is now available. Spanish , English. ...

Through story books and movies, the world has often wondered what it might be like to read minds, but rarely has epilepsy played a role in this vision until now. Scientists are making breakthroughs every day in the studies of how the human brain works, but Neurologist Josef Parvizi of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford, along with his team of researchers, have worked with Epilepsy patients for their latest breakthrough.. The struggle that those with epilepsy work with is immediately felt by those that know someone touched by the disorder. Epilepsy is considered a disorder rather than a disease due to the fact it is not directly contagious in any way. Those in extreme cases can experience one or two grand mal seizures a month regardless of whether they are at home, work or even on the streets. The seizures are brought on by sudden changes in how the brain works. Over half of the cases of epilepsy are from unknown causes. The causes that are known include, stroke, ...

Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a form of epilepsy that results from brain damage caused by physical trauma to the brain (traumatic brain injury, abbreviated TBI). A person with PTE suffers repeated post-traumatic seizures (PTS, seizures that result from TBI) more than a week after the initial injury. PTE is estimated to constitute 5% of all cases of epilepsy and over 20% of cases of symptomatic epilepsy (in which seizures are caused by an identifiable organic brain condition). It is not known how to predict who will develop epilepsy after TBI and who will not. However, the likelihood that a person will develop PTE is influenced by the severity and type of injury; for example penetrating injuries and those that involve bleeding within the brain confer a higher risk. The onset of PTE can occur within a short time of the physical trauma that causes it, or months or years after. People with head trauma may remain at a higher risk for seizures than the general population even decades after the ...

Definition of focal epilepsy in the Legal Dictionary - by Free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. What is focal epilepsy? Meaning of focal epilepsy as a legal term. What does focal epilepsy mean in law?

This years Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier and Dr Jennifer Doudna for their discovery of natures sharpest genetic scissors - CRISPR - the tool that makes gene therapy possible. Gene therapy is an emerging key treatment for ma ...

Nationally renowned pediatric epilepsy expert joins team Beaumont Childrens neuroscience team is the first in Michigan to establish a Pediatric Stereo-electroencephalography Epilepsy Surgery Program. Stereo-electroencephalography, also known as SEEG, is a minimally invasive diagnostic EEG within the skull that pinpoints the source of seizures. It replaces a craniotomy with smaller incisions - 2mm holes in the skull. In the traditional approach - the subdural EEG, a neurosurgeon removes a large part of the skull for EEG electrode implantation, explained Pramote Laoprasert, M.D., director of Beaumont Childrens Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. SEEG can identify the source of seizures deep within the brain without removing a part of the skull. It reduces surgery and anesthesia time. Patients experience much less pain with less medication and a faster recovery time, typically within 24-48 hours. SEEG performed with ROSA, a robotic assistance system, is more precise and a less invasive option of ...

Cases of epilepsy may be organized into epilepsy syndromes by the specific features that are present. These features include the age at which seizures begin, the seizure types, and EEG findings, among others. Identifying an epilepsy syndrome is useful as it helps determine the underlying causes as well as what anti-seizure medication should be tried. The ability to categorize a case of epilepsy into a specific syndrome occurs more often with children since the onset of seizures is commonly early. Less serious examples are benign rolandic epilepsy (2.8 per 100,000), childhood absence epilepsy (0.8 per 100,000) and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (0.7 per 100,000). Severe syndromes with diffuse brain dysfunction caused, at least partly, by some aspect of epilepsy, are also referred to as epileptic encephalopathies. These are associated with frequent seizures that are resistant to treatment and severe cognitive dysfunction, for instance Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and West syndrome. Epilepsies with onset ...

Overview. Fellowship training in pediatric epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology is offered in conjunction with our accredited Mass General Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology Training Program.. Fellows with training in Child Neurology work closely with adult Epilepsy fellows in the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory, but focus their clinical experience on the pediatric epilepsy clinics under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Thiele.. The Pediatric Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship is one track that might follow our one-year accredited fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology. Alternatively, fellows may choose the Epilepsy and Neurobiology track.. ...

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Introduction:. PRX-00023 is a selective 5HT1A agonist being developed as an oral therapeutic treatment for epilepsy.. Objective:. To initiate a pilot clinical trial assessing the safety, tolerability and efficacy of the 5HT1A receptor agonist PRX-00023 in patients with localization-related epilepsy. PRX-00023 is a 5HT1A receptor agonist that has shown promise in clinical trials of depression. Patients with localization-related epilepsy have reduced 5HT1A receptor binding on 18FCWAY positron emission tomography (PET). Increasing neurotransmitter activity at 5HT1A receptor sites might ameliorate seizures. Moreover, depression is a common co-morbidity in people with epilepsy. Altered 5HT1A receptor binding has been found in depression.. Study Population:. Thirty adults with localization-related epilepsy.. Design:. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over, phase II clinical trial. Subjects will be screened under protocol 01-N-0139 and will undergo medical and epilepsy history and ...

Mesial versus lateral. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common seizure disorder in adults. While mesial temporal lobe epilepsy can be associated with olfactory hallucinations, deja vu and epigastric auras, temporal lobe seizures arising from the lateral cortex rather than the hippocampus may present with auditory hallucinations as the initial seizure symptoms. While the genetics of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy remains poorly understood, the genetics of the far less common lateral temporal lobe epilepsies had major breakthrough when mutations in LGI1 were discovered in familial cases. LGI1, a secreted presynaptic protein, has mystified the field for over a decade, given that we have problems understanding how a highly localized form of epilepsy can be caused by a global genetic defect. In their recent study in AJHG, Dazzo and collaborators add another confusing piece to the puzzle. They identify RELN (reelin) mutations in families with autosomal dominant lateral temporal lobe epilepsy ...

BACKGROUND. A population based study of epilepsy in children from a Swedish county including all children aged 1 month to 16 years was reported in 2006.. AIM. To describe the medical outcome, seizure types, epilepsy syndromes, treatment, individual and family history in children from this study who were well-functioning in January 1997 and the outcome after 10 years.. METHODS. Forty-five individuals, 11-21 years, 19 females, and their parents responded to a questionnaire and the hospital records were reviewed.. RESULTS. At the end of the 10-year period 75.6% of the patients were in remission. Focal seizures and focal seizures with secondary generalization were found in 57.8%. Rolandic epilepsy had been diagnosed in 33.3%, other idiopathic focal epilepsies in 11.0%, cryptogenic and symptomatic focal epilepsies in 22.2%, childhood absence epilepsy in 8.9%, juvenile absence epilepsy and Jeavons syndrome in each 2.2%, West syndrome in 4.4%, and other generalized epilepsies in 15.5%. The patients ...

Cryptogenic epilepsy is a group of epilepsy syndromes where aetiology is unknown but an underlying brain disease is suspected. Increased seropositivity for Toxocara and Toxoplasma gondii have been observed in epileptic patients with sparse data about their seropositivity in cryptogenic epileptic patients. Therefore, we investigated the probable relationship between seropositivity against T. gondii and Toxocara with cryptogenic epilepsy. We examined patients who had cryptogenic epilepsy and healthy non epileptic controls for seropositivity for Toxocara and T. gondii antibodies by ELISA. Out of 132 cryptogenic epileptic patients, 80 (60.6 %) and 64 (48.5%) were seropositive for T. gondii and Toxocara immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies respectively. The seropositivity in the control group was 26 (43.3%) and 28 (46.7%) for T. gondii and Toxocara IgG respectively. We found a significant association between chronic T. gondii infection

Define temporal lobe epilepsy. temporal lobe epilepsy synonyms, temporal lobe epilepsy pronunciation, temporal lobe epilepsy translation, English dictionary definition of temporal lobe epilepsy. Noun 1. temporal lobe epilepsy - epilepsy characterized clinically by impairment of consciousness and amnesia for the episode; often involves purposeful...

Crompton and colleagues recently published the clinical and genetic description of a large family with Familial Adult Myoclonic Epilepsy (FAME). This phenotype is particularly interesting since it provides some insight into how neurologists conceptualize twitches and jerks. It is also a good example that large families do not necessarily result in a narrow linkage region, particularly when centromeric regions are involved.. What is myoclonus? Despite usually mentioned in the context of epilepsy, most people are inherently familiar with myoclonus. Most of us twitch when we fall asleep and sometimes experience this twitch as part of a dream. These episodes are entirely normal and are called hypnic jerks, but they give people a good idea of what a sudden, brief, shocklike, involuntary movement caused by muscular contraction or inhibition would feel like. Myoclonus in the setting of epilepsy is usually mentioned as part of a Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME) or Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy ...

Synonyms for Lafora's myoclonic epilepsy in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for Lafora's myoclonic epilepsy. 24 words related to epilepsy: epileptic seizure, brain disease, brain disorder, encephalopathy, akinetic epilepsy, cortical epilepsy, focal epilepsy.... What are synonyms for Lafora's myoclonic epilepsy?

Whether or not temporal lobe epilepsy may be a consequence of prolonged febrile convulsions has been long disputed.1-6 15 16 Annegers et al,17 admitting that a history of complicating febrile convulsions increased the risk of subsequent epilepsy, postulated that epileptic seizures were of various clinical types, in a distribution similar to that found in an extensive review of epilepsy in a general population. Leviton and Cowan18 also questioned a specific causal relation between prolonged febrile convulsions and temporal lobe epilepsy. Lee et al 5 and Sofijanov et al 6were more direct. These authors overtly denied the role of febrile seizures in the genesis of temporal lobe epilepsy that had been based on pathohistological findings. A careful scrutiny of these data, however, seemingly contradicted the view based on the Maudsley series, indicating that this discrepancy was more apparent than real. None of these opponents of Falconers hypothesis analysed the correlation of temporal lobe epilepsy ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 5, 2018 - A University of Houston biomedical engineer is reporting a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to detect the seizure onset zone (SOZ), the actual part of the brain that causes seizures, in patients with epilepsy.. Nearly 30 percent of epilepsy patients are resistant to drug therapy, so they have the option of surgery to remove their seizure onset zones. Most of them opt in, according to assistant professor Nuri Ince, noting the improved quality of life for sufferers.. Using oscillating brain waves, rather than observing seizures as they happen, Ince locates the seizure onset zone in one hour. Current treatment protocols for detecting the zone require prolonged monitoring in the hospital for up to 10 days. Inces new method to locate the seizure onset zone, reported in Brain, A Journal of Neurology, could save patients weeks of hospitalization, reduce complications and costs associated with what has traditionally been an arduous, and often painful, procedure.. We ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Increasing volume and complexity of pediatric epilepsy surgery with stable seizure outcome between 2008 and 2014. T2 - A nationwide multicenter study. AU - Barba, Carmen. AU - Specchio, Nicola. AU - Guerrini, Renzo. AU - Tassi, Laura. AU - De Masi, Salvatore. AU - Cardinale, Francesco. AU - Pellacani, Simona. AU - De Palma, Luca. AU - Battaglia, Domenica. AU - Tamburrini, Gianpiero. AU - Didato, Giuseppe. AU - Freri, Elena. AU - Consales, Alessandro. AU - Nozza, Paolo. AU - Zamponi, Nelia. AU - Cesaroni, Elisabetta. AU - Di Gennaro, Giancarlo. AU - Esposito, Vincenzo. AU - Giulioni, Marco. AU - Tinuper, Paolo. AU - Colicchio, Gabriella. AU - Rocchi, Raffaele. AU - Rubboli, Guido. AU - Giordano, Flavio. AU - Lo Russo, Giorgio. AU - Marras, Carlo Efisio. AU - Cossu, Massimo. N1 - Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.. PY - 2017/10. Y1 - 2017/10. N2 - OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to assess common practice in pediatric epilepsy surgery in Italy between ...

The treatment of patients with refractory epilepsy has always been challenging. Despite the availability of multiple antiepileptic medications and surgical procedures with which to resect seizure foci, there is a subset of epilepsy patients for whom little can be done. Currently available treatment options for these unfortunate patients include vagus nerve stimulation, the ketogenic diet, and electric stimulation, both direct and indirect, of brain nuclei thought to be involved in epileptogenesis. Studies of electrical stimulation of the brain in epilepsy treatment date back to the early 20th century, beginning with research on cerebellar stimulation. The number of potential targets has increased over the years to include the hippocampus, subthalamic nucleus, caudate nucleus, centromedian nucleus, and anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT). Recently the results of a large randomized controlled trial, the electrical Stimulation of the Anterior Nucleus of Thalamus for Epilepsy (SANTE) trial, were ...

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, and affects 50 million people worldwide. Approximately 30% of these do not have seizure control even with the best available medications, hence renewed and increasing interest in the use of dietary treatments to treat epilepsy. These treatments include the traditional ketogenic diets but also the newer modified Atkins diet and low glycaemic index treatment.. The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat refractory epilepsy in children, and requires the dedicated support of a multi-disciplinary team including doctors and dietitians. Dietary Treatment of Epilepsy: Practical Implementation of Ketogenic Therapy provides comprehensive and practical training on all aspects of implementing and managing dietary treatments for epilepsy, with key chapters on assessment, calculations, implementation, monitoring and complications.. Edited ...

Objectives: Dynamic changes in psychophysiological arousal are directly expressed in the sympathetic innervation of the skin. This activity can be measured as tonic and phasic fluctuations in electrodermal activity [Galvanic Skin Response (GSR)/skin conductance]. Biofeedback training can enable an individual to gain voluntary control over this autonomic response and its central correlates. Theoretically, control of psychophysiological arousal may be harnessed as a therapy for epilepsy, to mitigate pre-ictal states. Evidence is accumulating for the clinical efficacy of GSR biofeedback training in the management of drug resistant epilepsy. In this review, we analyse current evidence of efficacy with GSR biofeedback and evaluate the methodology of each study. Method: We searched published literature pertaining to interventional studies of GSR biofeedback for epilepsy, through MEDLINE and Cochrane databases (1950-2018). Using percentage seizure reduction as an indicator of therapeutic efficacy induced by

Rick Harrison of the History Channels reality TV show Pawn Stars dukes it out with customers at his Las Vegas store every day, haggling with them as they try to sell or pawn their items.. But as a child, Harrison duked it out with a serious brain disorder, which he credits with saving his life.. Harrison, who is the national spokesman for the Epilepsy Foundation, is set to visit D.C. to participate in the foundations 8th Annual National Walk for Epilepsy on March 22.. Epilepsy is a condition that really doesnt get the press and everything that it needs, Harrison said on WTOP Wednesday.. Harrison suffered from benign childhood epilepsy and had seizures. The muscle damage he endured from the seizures confined him to his bed, where he spent most of his time reading.. Harrison says [reading] sort of saved [his] life.. READ MORE. ...

This study illustrates the outcome and cost-effectiveness of anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) among patients with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) treated in an epilepsy center in Kerala, South India. Patients for ATL were selected on the basis of a noninvasive protocol comprising clinical, interictal scalp electroencephalogram (EEG), magnetic resonance imaging, and ictal video-EEG data. The authors compared the outcome and direct cost of 119 patients (mean age, 25.6 years; mean duration of epilepsy before ATL, 16.1 years) who have completed at least 1 year follow-up after ATL with 71 refractory TLE patients (mean age, 27.1 years; mean duration of epilepsy, 15.4 years) who did not undergo ATL. Patients in the study who underwent ATL had a 70% likelihood of becoming seizure-free after ATL and a 30% chance of being completely off of antiepileptic drug treatment within 3 years after ATL. The out-of-pocket one-time payment for ATL (including presurgical evaluation) in this setup is ...

The 9th of September is a special day for the whole community and for all of us who work in the field of Epilepsy in Latin America. 19 years ago at the opening of the 1st Latin-American Congress of Epilepsy in Santiago, Chile this date was established as the Latin-American Epilepsy Day.. Read more about Epilepsy week 2019 in Latin America. El 9 de septiembre es un día muy especial para toda la comunidad y para todos los que trabajamos por la Epilepsia en Latinoamérica. Un 9 de septiembre de 2000 hace 19 años, durante la inauguración del 1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Epilepsia en Santiago de Chile, se instauró esta fecha como el Día Latinoamericano de la Epilepsia.. La Semana de la Epilepsia 2019. ...

Because of increasing concern about the systemic and neurologic toxicity of long-term treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) (1), the question of if and when to withdraw AEDs in epileptic patients whose seizures are well controlled is a common clinical problem. Until recently, many physicians were reluctant to discontinue AED therapy because of the lack of reliable data on the risk for seizure recurrence. Further, no study to date has compared the risk for seizure recurrence on withdrawing medication with the risk for recurrence associated with continuing therapy. This randomized study by the Medical Research Council Antiepileptic Drug Withdrawal Study Group, however, provides the clinician with important prognostic data on AED withdrawal. It is clear that remission of seizures is possible in many epileptic patients whose AEDs are withdrawn slowly. In this study, 59% of patients not taking AEDs remained seizure-free at 2 years. This study helps to identify those for whom drug withdrawal is a ...

Objectives: The aimwas to describe the contribution of basal ganglia (BG) thalamo-cortical circuitry to thewholebrain functional connectivity in focal epilepsies. Methods: Interictal resting-state fMRI recordings were acquired in 46 persons with focal epilepsies. Of these 46, 22 had temporal lobe epilepsy: 9 left temporal (LTLE), 13 right temporal (RTLE); 15 had frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE); and 9 had parietal/ occipital lobe epilepsy (POLE). There were 20 healthy controls. The completeweighted networkwas analyzed based on correlation matrices of 90 and 194 regions. The network topologywas quantified on a global and regional level by measures based on graph theory, and connection-level changes were analyzed by the partial least square method. Results: In all patient groups except RTLE, the shift of the functional network topology away from random was observed (normalized clustering coefficient and characteristic path length were higher in patient groups than in controls). Links contributing to ...

We evaluated the diagnostic capability of a multimodal spectroscopic approach for classifying normal brain tissue and epileptogenic focal cortical dysplasia in children. We employed fluorescence spectroscopy at two excitation wavelengths (378 nm and 445 nm) and Raman spectroscopy (at 785 nm excitation) for acquiring fluorescence and Raman spectra from 10 normal brains, 16 focal cortical dysplasia specimens and 1 cortical tuber tissue sites using a custom-built multimodal optical point spectroscopic system. We used principal component analysis combined with leave-one-sample-out-cross-validation for tissue classification. The study resulted in 100% sensitivity and 90% specificity using the information obtained from fluorescence at two distinct wavelengths and Raman spectroscopy for discriminating normal brain tissue and focal cortical dysplasia. Our results demonstrate that this methodology has the potential to be applied clinically for the detection of focal cortical dysplasia and can help to ...

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Unilateral hippocampal atrophy with or without temporal cortical atrophy on qualitative MR imaging, other unitemporal structural lesions on qualitative MR imaging, and a hippocampal volume reduction of at least 1 SD from the mean of controls on the side of seizure onset predicted Engel I-II outcome in a logistic regression analyses. Qualitative MR imaging reveals lateralising abnormalities in 74%, and hippocampal atrophy in 52-63% of patients undergoing epilepsy surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy.13,39,44 Volumetric MR imaging studies have shown that up to 88% of patients with drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy have hippocampal damage on quantitative MR imaging.45 Both ipsilateral hippocampal damage and ipsilateral foreign tissue lesions on MR imaging are important predictors of successful postoperative outcome in patients undergoing surgery for drug refractory temporal lobe epilepsy.13,14,15 In various different studies, 62-96% of patients with hippocampal damage on MR imaging became ...

For most people, this is the type of seizure they think of when they think of epilepsy. During the seizure there are two phases, tonic (a stiffening of the muscles) and clonic (rhythmic jerking of the muscles). These phases can happen in any order, but most often the tonic phase is first, followed by the clonic phase.. Tonic-clonic seizures can occur if someone has generalized onset epilepsy and the seizure is a generalized seizure from the very start. A tonic-clonic seizure can also occur if someone has focal epilepsy if their focal seizure evolves to become a bilateral convulsive seizure. Tonic-clonic seizures can also occur when people do not have epilepsy and can be brought on (or provoked) by various things such as fever, infection, low blood sugar, or alcohol withdrawal.. The typical length of a tonic-clonic seizure is from under a minute to a few minutes. Like other seizures, these seizures generally run their course and end naturally on their own. When the person regains consciousness ...

Title:Acute Symptomatic Seizures in Geriatric Patients with Multiple Risk Factors - A Diagnostic Challenge. VOLUME: 10 ISSUE: 4. Author(s):Ralf Landwehr* and Robert Liszka. Affiliation:Zentrum für Ambulante Neurorehabilitation (ZANR), Europaallee 1, D-67657 Kaiserslautern, Klinik fur Neurologie, Westpfalz-Klinikum, Hellmut-Hartert-Str. 1, D-67655 Kaiserslautern. Keywords:New onset epilepsy, old age epilepsy, acute symptomatic seizures, provoked seizures, neurogeriatrics, epileptogenic drugs, dementia.. Abstract:Background: Acute symptomatic seizures and epileptic disorders are frequent health problems of elderly patients. An early and reliable distinction of the seizure etiology is important to ensure adequate treatment, and to prevent unwarranted diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Methods: We review the current literature based on a MEDLINE search, describe age-related problems in detail, with particular attention to clinical practice, discuss possible criteria and potential pitfalls for ...

Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is the commonest cause of temporal lobe epilepsy which accounts for 3-50% of all epilepsy syndromes. This chapter reviews the pathological substrate of HS and mesial temporal sclerosis and how this relates to epileptogenesis and seizures. It then discusses the clinical picture of different forms of temporal lobe epilepsy and common findings on electroencephalography and imaging. Invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tools assessing epileptogenicity of the hippocampus are reviewed. Finally, the chapter presents an overview of management options available for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Spectroscopic imaging of the pilocarpine model of human epilepsy suggests that early NAA reduction predicts epilepsy. AU - Gomes, William A.. AU - Lado, F. A.. AU - De Lanerolle, N. C.. AU - Takahashi, K.. AU - Pan, C.. AU - Hetherington, H. P.. PY - 2007/8/1. Y1 - 2007/8/1. N2 - Reduced hippocampal N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) is commonly observed in patients with advanced, chronic temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). It is unclear, however, whether an NAA deficit is also present during the clinically quiescent latent period that characterizes early TLE. This question has important implications for the use of MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) in the early identification of patients at risk for TLE. To determine whether NAA is diminished during the latent period, we obtained high-resolution 1H spectroscopic imaging during the latent period of the rat pilocarpine model of human TLE. We used actively detuneable surface reception and volume transmission coils to enhance sensitivity and a ...

Old drugs, new tricks. Early promising anecdotal reports of treatment success using quinidine in drug-resistant epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures caused by potassium channel gene KCNT1 gain-of-function mutations have been followed by mixed results from other investigators. And a small randomized trial of oral quinidine in patients with severe autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy due to KCNT1 mutations proved negative (Neurology. 2018 Jan 2;90(1):e67-e72. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004769. Epub 2017 Dec 1). An international group of investigators have asserted on the basis of an initial 15-patient series that the sodium-channel blockers carbamazepine and phenytoin should be considered first-line therapy in patients with KCNQ2 encephalopathy. They argued that early recognition and treatment of the disorder may be key to reducing the associated neurodevelopmental impairment (Epilepsia. 2015 May;56[5]:685-91). Time to reconceptualize epilepsy?. These potential new uses ...

Hi walcal, Thank you for sharing your experience. ts important that you reach out to your doctor to discuss your most recent seizure activity. You may want to consider with your health care provider having a device that can help track your seizures, by visiting https://www.dannydid.org/ , so you can share this information with your health care team. Additionally keeping a seizure diary https://www.epilepsy.com/living-epilepsy/epilepsy-foundation-my-seizure-... , as another self-management tool that may be helpful in tracking seizures, other symptoms, managing medication and other therapies, recognizing triggers and health events that may affect seizures and wellness, and communicating with your care providers.For more information about complex partial seizures and managing your epilepsy please visit https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/focal-onset-impaired-aware... & https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/managing-your-epilepsyIt can be discouraging to have a seizure after not having any for ...

U.S., Feb. 20 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT03052998) titled Ivermectin Treatment in Patients With Onchocerciasis-associated Epilepsy on Feb. 10. Brief Summary: Many studies have reported an association between epilepsy, including Nodding Syndrome (NS), and onchocerciasis (river blindness). A high prevalence of epilepsy has been noted particularly in onchocerciasis hyperendemic areas where onchocerciasis is not or insufficiently controlled with mass Ivermectin distribution. There is evidence that increasing the coverage of Ivermectin reduces the incidence of epilepsy and anecdotal evidence suggests a reduction in seizure frequency in onchocerciasis associated epilepsy (OAE) patients who receive Ivermectin. Finding an alternative treatment for epilepsy in these patients will have major consequences. Objective To assess whether Ivermectin treatment decreases the frequency of seizures and leads to seizure freedom in OAE patients, including patients ...

So, lets talk about them. But first, lets define our terms---after all, we have to agree on the language we will use if we are to understand each other clearly. I have over 50 years experience with E., and it should come in handy. Let me tell you how I realized the way the naming of epilepsy was setting up a barrier to any effective or meaningful dialogue about E.: As a child, it was carefully explained to me by my mother and my first few doctors that I had epilepsy, that I experienced grand mal and petit mal seizures, and that I wold never get over it. In my teens, I learned that I had left temporal lobe epilepsy that expressed itself as both grand mal and petit mal seizures but I was fortunate because my seizure activity came with an aura. As a young woman I was informed that all of this was wrong: what I had was epilepsy, certainly, but it had a left temporal lobe focus, and I suffered grand mal with an aura, petit mal and psychomotor seizure activity ...

Optimising epilepsy management with a smartphone application: a randomised controlled trial. Med J Aust. 2020 Feb 24;: Authors: Si Y, Xiao X, Xia C, Guo J, Hao Q, Mo Q, Niu Y, Sun H Abstract OBJECTIVE: To assess whether a practical intervention based upon a smartphone application (app) would improve self-management and seizure control in adults with epilepsy. DESIGN, SETTI...

Abstract There is a long-recognized association between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic epilepsy, most notably refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). The literature documents this association with case reports, patient series, and some larger controlled studies that reveal that almost a quarter of patients with TLE exhibit OCD features, which may go unrecognized. Obsession features with ordering, symmetry, exactness, handwashing, and religiosity occur more often in persons with right- or left-sided epileptic foci than in those with idiopathic generalized epilepsies or controls. Neurobiological and social factors suggest abnormalities of the frontal-thalamic-pallidal-striatal-anterior cingulate-frontal circuits stemming from the observation that certain diseases, damage, or surgery along these circuits may produce or, conversely, reduce OCD in TLE. This review explores the literature on case reports, case series, and larger retrospective controlled studies and looks at the associations

Well, Mohammed may have had some, there is some modest amount of evidence for that. However, if he really did have temporal lobe epilepsy then it still does neither fully explain nor excuse his behaviour. There have to have been other factors. Ali Sina makes a case for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, for example, in my view more consistent with the overall behaviour of Mohammed. His epilepsy, if indeed there was some, is more incidental. Many people have epilepsy. Few claim to be prophets and set out to conquer the world. Interestingly Julius Cesar had epilepsy, and he also had some delusions of grandeur, in some ways similar to Mohammed. But these seem to be exceptions really. There are many many people having various forms of epilepsy, and you would be very hard pressed finding another like Mohammed amongst them ...

BACKGROUND: Epilepsy is a common neurological condition with a worldwide prevalence of around 1%. Approximately 60% to 70% of people with epilepsy will achieve a longer-term remission from seizures, and most achieve that remission shortly after starting antiepileptic drug treatment. Most people with epilepsy are treated with a single antiepileptic drug (monotherapy) and current guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom for adults and children recommend carbamazepine or lamotrigine as first-line treatment for partial onset seizures and sodium valproate for generalised onset seizures; however a range of other antiepileptic drug (AED) treatments are available, and evidence is needed regarding their comparative effectiveness in order to inform treatment choices. OBJECTIVES: To compare the time to withdrawal of allocated treatment, remission and first seizure of 10 AEDs (carbamazepine, phenytoin, sodium valproate, phenobarbitone, oxcarbazepine, ...

The oldest medical records show that epilepsy has been affecting people at least since the beginning of recorded history.[130] Throughout ancient history, the disease was thought to be a spiritual condition.[130] The worlds oldest description of an epileptic seizure comes from a text in Akkadian (a language used in ancient Mesopotamia) and was written around 2000 BC.[22] The person described in the text was diagnosed as being under the influence of a Moon god, and underwent an exorcism.[22] Epileptic seizures are listed in the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1790 BC) as reason for which a purchased slave may be returned for a refund,[22] and the Edwin Smith Papyrus (c. 1700 BC) describes cases of individuals with epileptic convulsions.[22]. The oldest known detailed record of the disease itself is in the Sakikku, a Babylonian cuneiform medical text from 1067-1046 BC.[130] This text gives signs and symptoms, details treatment and likely outcomes,[22] and describes many features of the different seizure ...

Our data suggest that the most important initial investigation is an MRI scan as the presence of a well-defined lesion involving noneloquent cortex such as DNET, or MTS (Cendes et al., 2000; Cukiert et al., 2002). Rasmussens encephalitis or hemimegalencephaly in a child with a clear history of stereotyped seizures may mean that no further investigation for localization of the seizure focus is required. This group of children accounts for the large majority of children who are offered epilepsy surgery. The spectrum of operations carried out is shown in Fig. 1 which is similar to those published by North American groups (Wyllie et al., 1998; Sinclair et al., 2003).. Given that our outcome data (Doring et al., 1999; Cross, 2002; Devlin et al., 2003; Mclellan et al., 2005) are similar to those reported by other units, and that there is excellent concordance (Haut et al., 2002) across epilepsy surgery programs for the decision to offer epilepsy surgery, a change in approach as suggested above is ...

Anna has extensive experience researching cognition in childhood developmental disorders. Her early work focussed upon understanding the neural correlates underpinning executive dysfunction in ADHD. More recently, she has focussed upon the neuropsychological deficits observed in childhood epilepsy.. Anna is currently working on two pedigree studies: one of these studies involves linkage analysis within a unique family where Rolandic Epilepsy occurs, to explore potential biomarkers for literacy related phenotypes. The second study focusses upon a novel endophenotype of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME) known as Brain Network Ictogenicity (BNI) to localise susceptibility genes in families where JME occurs. She aims to collect neuropsychological data to understand whether the presence of this EEG endophenotype predicts neuropsychological deficits.. She is also currently working on the development of a tablet based tool that aims to measure the effects of sleep on executive function, memory for ...

See the corresponding section in the main epilepsy article. The primary goal of treatment of childhood absence epilepsy is to prevent accidental injuries that may occur during seizures. For those with frequent seizures the goal of treatment includes preventing the seizures from interfering with learning at school and other activities of daily life. The goal of treatment with medications for absence seizures is to accomplish the goals above, by eliminating or reducing the frequency of the absence seizures, without causing side-effects more serious than the epilepsy itself. Certain anticonvulsant drugs are used to minimize the number of seizures. Absence seizures appear to respond well to valproic acid (trade name: Depakote), ethosuximide (trade name: Zarontin), and lamotrigine (trade name: Lamictal). Each of these medications has potential side effects, some of them serious. While the most serious side effects are uncommon, a better understanding of the risks and benefits of each of these ...

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The change in partial (type 1) seizure frequency from Baseline is given as a percent reduction computed as:. [ Weekly partial seizure frequency (Baseline)- Weekly partial seizure frequency (Evaluation Period)]/ [Weekly partial seizure frequency (Baseline)] x 100.. Positive values in percent reduction means that the value has decreased from Baseline during the first 16-week Period.. Partial (Type I) seizures can be classified into one of the following three groups: Simple partial seizures, Complex partial seizures, Partial seizures evolving to secondarily generalized seizures.. ...

Epilepsy is common in patients with primary malignant brain tumours, with incidence rates from 20 up to 90%, depending on tumour type, the location of the tumour and its proximity to the cortical gray matter [1]-[3]. The epileptogenicity of a tumour is inversely correlated with its growth rate [4]-[6]. Low-grade gliomas (LGGs), and particularly slow-growing tumours such as gangliogliomas and dysembryoblastic neuroepithelial tumours (DNETs), are the most epileptogenic [7]-[9]. A decrease in seizure frequency is known to contribute to less morbidity and improved quality of life [10],[11]. Therefore, achieving sustained seizure control in these patients is an important issue in brain tumour treatment.. Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are the mainstay of epilepsy treatment. However, AEDs may cause side effects and may also negatively impact neurocognitive functioning and quality of life [12]. Moreover, enzyme-inducing AEDs may interfere with chemotherapeutic drugs and corticosteroids and cause additional ...