Epilepsy is known as a neurological disorder caused by disturbance in electrical brain signals. Almost one percent population in the world experience epileptic seizures from which 30% people need medical surgery and others are cured by antiepileptic drugs. Epilepsy is divided into generalized and ...
Seizure Recurrence after Planned Discontinuation of Antiepileptic Drugs in Seizure-free Patients after Epilepsy Surgery: A Review of Current Clinical Exper... Summary: Purpose: Although epilepsy surgery, especially temporal lobe epilepsy surgery, is well established to control seizures in patients remaining...
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To address this question, we acquired intracerebral electrophysiological recordings from epilepsy patients during rest and tones listening. Thanks to independent component analysis, we disentangled the different neural sources and labeled them as “oscillatory” if they presented strong alpha oscillations at ...
Epilepsy in childhood: I. A statistical study of clinical types frequency of seizures in the different groups of epileptic children does not gire a correct indication of the severity of the disease, due to the fact that petit mal seizures are more common among the children with normal mentality...
In the present study, the agreement of different classifications before and after short term VEM is investigated.Methods: Three hundred ninety-one patients who had undergone VEM were enrolled in the study. Forty-five cases, whose epileptic seizures could be recorded, were classified before and ...
Epilepsy is a frequent condition in persons with intellectual disability and is more often difficult to treat than in the average population. Seizure freedom is the primary therapeutic goal which has important implications for the patient's quality of life. The aim of this study was to find out...
aAs an anticonvulsant, valproic acid is used to control absence seizures, tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal), complex partial seizures, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, and the seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. It is also used in treatment of myoclonus. In some countries, parenteral prepa...
1). It is a white or nearly white crystalline powder; solubility: very slightly soluble in water; freely soluble in acetone and ethanol (96%) [4]. The use of carbamazepine includes the treatment of focal-onset and generalized-onset tonic-colonic seizures, trigeminal neuralgia, and as a mood...
Mean age at the onset of epilepsy was 3.90±2.80 years. No cases were reported in the first year of life. No specific epileptic syndromes were recognized. Predominant seizure-types in the age range 12–36 months included focal onset tonic seizures with impaired awareness, myoclonic seizures, ...