Intracranial recordings for non-lesional mesiotemporal epilepsy? Almost always, but not quite always

Corrective but coordinates clauses not always but sometimes

The semantic contrast between COUNTEREXPECTATIONAL and CORRECTIVE but has long interested linguists (see Anscombre and Ducrot 1977 and much subsequent work). Recently, Vicente (2010) has proposed that the two types of but also differ in their syntax. While counterexpectational but coordinates constituents from a variety of different categories, corrective but always coordinates full clauses. Th...

Less means more for pigeons but not always.

When humans are asked to judge the value of a set of objects of excellent quality, they often give this set higher value than those same objects with the addition of some of lesser quality. This is an example of the affect heuristic, often referred to as the less-is-more effect. Monkeys and dogs, too, have shown this suboptimal effect. But in the present experiments, normally hungry pigeons cho...

Management of subdural intracranial empyemas should not always require surgery.

Seven patients with subdural empyema were initially treated by antibiotics without surgery. Six have recovered without sequelae. One required delayed surgery and has recovered with epilepsy. The authors emphasise the use of CT for the diagnosis and follow-up of subdural empyema, the principles and modalities of non-surgical treatment, and the good results, especially for late morbidity.

Decision analysis of intracranial monitoring in non-lesional epilepsy

PURPOSE Up to one third of epilepsy patients develop pharmacoresistant seizures and many benefit from resective surgery. However, patients with non-lesional focal epilepsy often require intracranial monitoring to localize the seizure focus. Intracranial monitoring carries operative morbidity risk and does not always succeed in localizing the seizures, making the benefit of this approach less ce...

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