EPILEPTIC VIOLENCE

Epileptic Encephalopathy

Epileptic encephalopathies are conditions in which epileptic activity itself is postulated to contribute to severe cognitive and behavioural impairments above and beyond what might be expected from the underlying pathology alone. The term has been used in two ways: (1) as a generic classification term for epilepsies with severe cognitive and be-havioural outcomes and (2) as a pathophysiological...

Epileptic Angina☆

PURPOSE To investigate the probable ictal origin of unexplained episodic chest pain and if possible to lateralize and localize the epileptic focus. METHODS A 14 year old boy presented with episodic short lasting localized chest pain. His cardiac and other systemic work-up were normal. MRI brain did not reveal any structural pathology. Video telemetry was done for characterization of the parox...

Neuro-anatomical differences among epileptic and non-epileptic déjà-vu.

OBJECTIVE Dèjà-vù (DV) can occur as a seizure of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) and in almost 80% of healthy individuals. The remarkable similarity between epileptic DV and DV in healthy individuals raises the possibility that DV might sometimes be an ictal phenomenon in apparently normal individuals. Thus, we studied a group of healthy subjects versus individuals with benign MTLE (bMTLE)...

Violence in Iranian Families

Anxiety in epileptic patients.

BACKGROUND Anxiety may occur as ictal, postictal or interictal symptom in patients with epilepsy. The main aim of this research was to explore the intensity and frequency of anxiety in patients with generalized, temporal and extratemporal epilepsy. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of three groups of patients with epilepsy (30 patients per group) - recently diagnosed with g...