Epileptic seizure? Certainly uncertain

“Ictal epileptic headache” is certainly a seizure which manifests itself only as headache

Akinetopsia as epileptic seizure☆

Akinetopsia is a rare syndrome in which a patient specifically loses the ability to perceive visual motion following bilateral cortical lesions outside the striate cortex. We describe a patient who showed akinetopsia recurrently as epileptic seizures. The patient was a 61-year-old man. At age 46, a cerebral arteriovenous malformation in the right parietal lobe was discovered. At age 58, he bega...

Algesthesia after epileptic seizure.

The consequences of epileptic seizures related to postictal inhibition in early postictal period include postictal analgesia. We studied this phenomenon over 96 h following flurothyl-induced seizures in adult male Wistar rats. Nociception of control (no seizure) and seizured groups were tested using the plantar and von Frey hair tests. We determined latency of forepaw and hind paw reactions usi...

The DSM-5 and the art of medicine: certainly uncertain.

The recently published Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) (1), is regarded as the primary source of information for psychiatric diagnostic criteria. Criticisms of the new edition have centered on the relative lack of scientific evidence for specific diagnostic classifications and unclear boundaries between true “illness” and the normal stresses of life....

Epileptic Seizure Prediction: An overview

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions, associated with abnormal electrical activity in the brain. The sudden and seemingly unpredictable nature of seizures is one of the most compromising aspects of the disease epilepsy. Most epilepsy patients only spend a marginal part of their time actually having ...