Objective Infantile epileptic spasm syndrome (IESS) is a kind of developmental epileptic encephalopathy that can lead to severe outcomes, including drug-resistant epilepsy and impaired neurodevelopment. The underlying etiology, early diagnosis, and adequate treatment impact the outcome. Our study focused ...
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Variants in the DEPDC5 have been proved to be main cause of not only various dominant familial focal epilepsies, but also sporadic focal epilepsies. In the present study, a novel variant in DEPDC5 was detected in the patient with focal epilepsy and his healthy father. We aimed to analyze ...
This is known as harm reduction. Harm reduction is not equivalent to or better than stopping the original behavior, as it does not eliminate risk of harm, but it is better than continuing the original behavior. Harm-reduction techniques can limit the impact our choices have across a range of...
Whether exercise is helpful, harmful, or simply has no impact on seizure frequency has been debated for years. People with epilepsy have been warned against vigorous exercise for fear that it might precipitate seizures. A significant number of people with epilepsy believe that exercise increases the...
“Purple Day means a great deal to me because people living with epilepsy deserve a day dedicated to their cause and reminding the world of the seriousness of this condition. Epilepsy is often misunderstood, and Purple Day is an opportunity to help others understand its impact on the entire fa...
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Epilepsy, one of the most prevalent and severe neurological diseases with a nearly ~ 1% prevalence worldwide, is notorious for its life-threatening unprovoked recurrent seizure [1,2]. In China, approximately 10 million people are diagnosed with epilepsy, and the annual management costs of epile...
Psychosis of epilepsy (POE) is a term applied to a group of psychotic disorders, which can present as interictal, ictal or postictal episodes, depending on their temporal relation to the occurrence of seizures and may be also the expression of an iatrogenic process triggered by pharmacologic and...
Epilepsy, fever, brain injury. Parkinson's disease, anxiety, medications. 10 Diagnosis EEG, brain scans. History, physical exam, neurological tests. 5 Treatment Medication, lifestyle changes, surgery. Medication, lifestyle adjustments, therapy. 14 Impact on Daily Life Potentially profound, affecting ...