Absence epilepsy
Age-dependent Electroencephalographic Differences in the Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg (GAERS) Model of Absence Epilepsy
... Typical absence epilepsy is a type of non- convulsive epilepsy that differs in many respects from other forms of epileptic ...Typical absence seizures are characterised by a brief ...
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Relapse after treatment withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs for juvenile absence epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
... The study identified 36 patients with JAE and 145 with JME. All diagnoses were found to be in accordance with ILAE 1989 criteria[2]. At the time of audit, the JAE patients were aged 16-59 years (mean 26) and JME patients ...
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Absence epilepsy and the <em>CHD2</em> gene: an adolescent male with moderate intellectual disability, short-lasting psychoses, and an interstitial deletion in 15q26.1–q26.2
... In the moderately intellectually disabled patient presented here, psychotic phenomena appeared to be the result of a previously unrecognized absence epilepsy. Treatment with valproic acid induced a ...
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Localization and function of mammalian thalamic GABAB receptors - their role in absence epilepsy
... It has been demonstrated in lesion studies of the feline penicillin model and GAERS that both the cortex and thalamus are necessarily involved in the generation of SWD (Avoli and Gloor 1982, Vergnes and Marescaux 1992). ...
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Functional aspects of a mutation in the α2δ-2 calcium channel subunit of the ducky mouse, a model for absence epilepsy and cerebellar ataxia
... (1998): Whole-cell and single-channel analysis of P-type calcium currents in cerebellar purkinje cells of leaner mutant mice.. (2000): Altered Calcium Homeostasis in [r] ...
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Analysis of rare copy number variation in absence epilepsies
... childhood absence epilepsy; CNV 5 copy number variation; GCTS 5 generalized tonic-clonic seizures; GSW 5 generalized spike- wave discharges; JAE 5 juvenile absence epilepsy; NA 5 not ...
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The Effect of Ciprofloxacin Injection on Genetically Absence Prone (Wag/Rij) Rat's Electroencephalogram Characteristics
... SWDs, which are typical criteria of absence epilepsy, can be recognized in Wag/Rij rat’s electroencephalo- gram (fig 1). The number of seizures in each group of Rats before and after ciprofloxacin injection ...
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Frequency of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Clinical Phenotypes in Siberia
... Against Epilepsy (ILAE) proposed to merge JME, juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) and epilepsy with isolated generalised seizures into one group with variable ...childhood absence ...
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VNS in drug resistant epilepsy: preliminary report on a small group of patients
... parameters, the highest current reached being 2.00 mA. This observation supports the possibility that, for younger patients, lower stimulation intensities than those commonly used in clinical practice for adults can be ...
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WAG/Rij rat model: a resource for the pharmacology of epileptogenesis and related neurological/psychiatric comorbidities
... It has been documented that this sphingosine-1 phosphate receptor modulator has anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects [78-80]. This drug, approved for the relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis management, has ...
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GLUT-1 DEFICIENCY: FROM PATHOPHYSILOGY AND GENETICS TO ABROAD CLINICAL SPECTRUM
... drome (GLUT-1 DS, De Vivo disease) was described over 2 decades ago as a metabolic encephalopathy cha- racterized by developmental delay, secondary micro- cephaly paroxysmal neurological symptoms (epilepsy) and ...
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Social Deprivation of Newborn Rats Modifies Exploratory and Defensive Behavior at Mature Age
... to absence epilepsy, which is expressed in the absence of a decrease in emotional reactivity during 10 mi- nutes of testing rats in an open ...
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Multi Center Study on Migraine and Seizure Related Headache in Patients with Epilepsy
... of epilepsy was 26.9 (± 16.1) years and the mean duration (± SD) of epilepsy was ...generalized epilepsy; ...myoclonic epilepsy, and absence epilepsy, ...partial epilepsy ...
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Pattern sensitivity: a missed part of the diagnosis
... tosensitive epilepsy, two had juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), three had childhood absence epilepsy, and one had eyelid myoclonia with ...
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Unilateral malignant hypertensive retinopathy
... Abstract—Mutations in the gene encoding the ␥ 2 subunit of the ␥ -aminobutyric acid type A receptor (GABRG2) have been reported to cause childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), febrile seizures (FS), and ...
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An overview of epilepsy with a focus on the effects and implications of the condition for children and their families
... enhanced in children and worsening some epileptic syndromes, although more recent AEDs cause less side effects and have less potential for adverse reactions with other medication (Ackers 2006). Drugs that may be useful ...
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Assessing the Structural Validity of the Measure of Processes of Care (MPOC-20) in Children with Epilepsy
... Another strength of this work was that its analyses were performed on a relatively large sample size of 311 patients – more than ample for a CFA to be performed. In addition, data on the perceptions of the degree to ...
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Systematic Approach for Drug Repositioning of Anti-Epileptic Drugs
... for epilepsy control by target epilepsy-causative ...many epilepsy-causative genes and it can cause such unexpected ...causing epilepsy or seizure as side effects, although they have a ...
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Severity of Epilepsy and Parent-Perceived Cognitive Functioning in Children with New-Onset Epilepsy: A Prospective Study of Family Factors as Mediators and Moderators
... mild epilepsy, rated as not at all or a little severe on the GASE ...childhood epilepsy for the age group included in this sample (Berg et ...mild epilepsy may not have that large of an impact on ...
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Physical Activity Reduces Epilepsy Incidence: a Retrospective Cohort Study in Swedish Cross-Country Skiers and an Experimental Study in Seizure-Prone Synapsin II Knockout Mice
... The lack of a protective anti-convulsive effect of vol- untary running in the SynIIKO mice was unexpected. Previous studies with chemically induced models of more severe convulsive status epilepticus have suggested an ...
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