Focal epilepsy
Goc, Joanna (2017): Establishing a novel diagnostic method to localize the epileptogenic zone in cryptogenic focal epilepsy. Dissertation, LMU München: Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN)
... cryptogenic focal epilepsy (cFE), localization of the epileptogenic zone (EZ) is challenged by the absence of a visible lesion in conventional MRI and relies on complementary diagnostic ...
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Neuronal autoantibodies in focal epilepsy with or without mesial temporal sclerosis
... with focal epilepsy with or without MTS were accompanied with positive antibodies against GABA-Rs, suggesting a potential role of GABA autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of our patients’ ...
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Low-frequency electroacupuncture suppresses focal epilepsy and improves epilepsy-induced sleep disruptions
... Results: In rats, the Feng-Chi acupoint is located 3 mm away from the center of a line between the two ears. Rats received 30 min of 10 Hz EA stimuli per day before each day ’ s dark period for three consecutive days. ...
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Focal epilepsy with ictal abdominal pain: a case report
... Focal epilepsy with ictal abdominal pain is an unusual partial epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal episodes of abdominal or visceral pain, disturbance of awareness and electroencephalographic ...of ...
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Brain Network Architecture and Global Intelligence in Children with Focal Epilepsy
... 1) focal epilepsy; 2) brain MR imaging at 3T, including resting-state functional MR imaging; and 3) full-scale intelligence quotient measured by a pediatric ...
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The Impact of Affective State on Quality of Life in Focal Epilepsy in Turkey.
... with focal epilepsy in ...with focal epilepsy over 18 years old were included in this ...in Epilepsy Inventory‑31 ...and epilepsy surgery, employment, and seizure freedom, ...
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Unprovoked Status Epilepticus: The Prognosis for Otherwise Normal Children With Focal Epilepsy
... Our study was limited to children without intellectual or neurologic de fi - cit before their fi rst seizure. Psycho- metric testing was administered at various ages with various tests. Other measures of academic outcome ...
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Changes in background electroencephalography and regional cerebral glucose metabolism in focal epilepsy patients after 1-month administration of levetiracetam
... in focal epilepsy patients. Twelve confirmed focal epilepsy patients were included who had never taken LEV ...in Epilepsy questionnaire ...
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PET investigations in focal epilepsy
... Surgical candidates may also benefit from reeent developments in MRl. The fluid attenuation inversion reeovery (FLAIR) sequence (Bergin et al., 1995) whieh has high signal in parenehymal lesions but low CSF signal, in ...
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The noninvasive localisation of brain abnormality in intractable focal epilepsy in childhood
... to epilepsy suggest that the caudate nucleus is spared during repeat seizures (Auer and Siesjo, 1988; Nevander et a l, 1985), although the globus pallidus is often ...
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New network and synchronization approaches in focal epilepsy research and treatment
... In the past, it has been hypothesized that a single pathological region was responsible for seizure genera- tion; this “focal” model was based on research that re- lated hippocampal and entorhinal cortex ...
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HEREDITARY CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIAL TEMPORAL-CENTRAL FOCAL EPILEPSY
... basis of a focal “temporal lobe” EEC spike abnormality, 30% of their fami- lies showed a close relative similarly affected compared to 5% of comitrol families.. Similarly, a much higher [r] ...
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BIRTH INJURY, FOCAL EPILEPSY AND CORTICAL EXCISION
... are now completely absent, and a relatively quiet area exists over the right frontal lobe. There is no evidence of epileptiform discharge during this examination. There is a background r[r] ...
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Clinical and molecular characterization ofKCNT1 related severe early onset epilepsy
... leukoencephalopathy, focal epilepsy, EOEE, West syndrome, unaffected) in ...lobe epilepsy; EIMFS = epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures; EOEE = early-onset epileptic ...
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SERUM MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE-2 AS A BIOMARKER FOR DIAGNOSIS OF IDIOPATHIC EPILEPSY
... Background: Epilepsy is a common serious neurological ...for epilepsy diagnosis; therefore, exploring novel methods for the accurate diagnosis of epilepsy is of great ...idiopathic epilepsy ...
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Clinical Features of a Series of Non-Surgical Patients with Focal Cortical Dysplasia and Epilepsy
... presented focal seizures with clinical semiology concordant with lesional area seen on ...of epilepsy patients ...intractable epilepsy who are undergoing presurgical evaluation ...drug-resistant ...
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Ictal blinking, an under-recognized phenomenon: our experience and literature review
... drug-resistant, focal epilepsy from the age of 36 months with right IB episodes, sometimes followed by left hemilateral seizures, was admitted to the Pediatric Neurology Table 1 electroclinical data of the ...
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The cultivation of epilepsy neurosurgeons: requirements and challenges
... drug-resistant focal epilepsy. However, the number of epilepsy neurosurgeons is not enough in China compared with the huge ...of epilepsy neurosurgeon cultivation includes surgery itself as ...
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Germline and somatic mutations in the MTOR gene in focal cortical dysplasia and epilepsy
... Germline mutations were found in patients with a variable phenotypic spectrum (table 2). Seven of the 8 individuals with germline variants had epilepsy. Six had focal epilepsy, and 1 had generalized ...
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Clinical and molecular characterisation of KCNT1 related severe early onset epilepsy
... leukoencephalopathy, focal epilepsy, EOEE, West syndrome, unaffected) in ...lobe epilepsy; EIMFS = epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures; EOEE = early-onset epileptic ...
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