We present results of analysis of overnight sleep video-EEG in 8 patients with developmental dysphasia and rolandic discharges. We evaluated the incidence of epileptiform discharges (expressed as paroxysmal activity density) at one or more electrodes in different sleep stages in three different periods of the night (after falling asleep, around midnight and before awakening). The difference of ...

BACKGROUND Women with epilepsy and their doctors are often unsure of the implications of the disease and the limitations it causes. There is a major need for counseling. METHODS Selective review of the literature as of November 2009. RESULTS Recommendations on pregnancy and childbearing for women with epilepsy can be found in the guidelines issued by the German Societies of Neurology and Ep...

PURPOSE The aim of this survey was to review and compare the current approaches to epilepsy management in central and eastern EU (CEEU) countries. METHOD The questionnaire was sent to ten invited experts from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. It focused on the treatment of adults. RESULTS The number of neurologists and ep...

Relevant and timely questions such as regarding the predictability of seizures and their capacity to trigger more seizures remain the subject of debate in epileptology. The present study endeavors to gain insight into these dynamic issues by adopting a non-reductionist approach and via the use of mathematical tools. Probability distribution functions of seizure energies and inter-seizure interv...

Welcome to this section of Seizure, which will appear in each issue from now, and is dedicated to continuing professional development (CPD) and continuing medical education (CME). Our aim is to cover the subject matter of epileptology in a comprehensive series of updates over a three year period, using a ‘topic teaching’ approach. A specially commissioned review article will introduce each topi...

BACKGROUND Poor agreement between observers on whether an unusual event is a seizure drives the need for a specific diagnostic tool provided by video-electroencephalography (video-EEG) in human pediatric epileptology. OBJECTIVE That successful classification of events would be positively associated with increasing EEG recording length and higher event frequency reported before video-EEG evalu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a daily patient reminder on seizure documentation accuracy. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Monitoring unit of an academic department of epileptology. Patients Consecutive sample of 91 adult inpatients with focal epilepsies undergoing video-electroencephalographic monitoring. Intervention While all patients were asked to document seizures at ...