Neurocysticercosis: a new trend in SUDEP research?

Neurocysticercosis: a new trend in SUDEP research? Neurocisticercose: uma nova tendência em pesquisas de SUDEP?

SUDEP research without walls.

The creation of a virtual Center Without Walls to study sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) was announced by the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) on Dec 8, 2014. For the epilepsy community—at that time gathered in Seattle, WA, USA, for the Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society—the announcement of this new initiative signals the onset of an exc...

[New trend in metal-based drug research].

EDITORIAL - A new trend to Rehabilitation

Current understanding of disability and impairment has led to new approaches in Rehabilitation. In this issue of Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, a variety of articles introduces a new trend in rehabilitation. "Emotion pitch" of each vowel sound and Percentage of vowel correct is the subject which Talie Zarifian and her colleagues discussed in their article. Persian speaking children can get ben...

New SCN5A mutation in a SUDEP victim with idiopathic epilepsy

Many idiopathic epilepsies have been shown to be caused by ion channel dysfunction. Channelopathies also cause the long QT syndrome (LQTS) which is associated with syncopes and sudden cardiac death. It has been postulated that the same channelopathy may be associated with both epilepsy and LQTS. We report a patient with idiopathic epilepsy who died in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)...