Purpose The present study aims to investigate the correlation between family resilience, sleep quality, and depression in parents of children with epilepsy. Design methods 157 epilepsy were assessed using shortened Chinese version Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS-SC) measure resilience level families Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used determine quality subjects. Self-Rating ...

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that affects more than 50 million people world wide, characterized by recurrent seizures (World Health Organization [WHO], 2006). An epileptic seizure is a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain (Fisher et al., 2005 & Berg et al., 2010). This electrical hyperactivity can ha...

Vitamin D (VD) is implicated in multiple aspects of human physiology and vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphisms are associated with a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders. Although VD deficiency is highly prevalent in epilepsy patients and converging evidence indicates a role for VD in the development of epilepsy, no data is available on the possible relationship between epilepsy and genetic v...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders that can be diagnosed by means electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis, in which following epileptic events observed: pre-ictal, ictal, post-ictal, and interictal. In this paper, we present a novel method for epilepsy detection employing binary multiclass classifiers. For feature extraction, total 105 measurements were extracted from power s...

OBJECTIVE Methods for the detection of epileptiform events can be broadly divided into two main categories: temporal detection methods that exploit the EEG's temporal characteristics, and spatial detection methods that base detection on the results of an implicit or explicit source analysis. We describe how the framework of a spatial detection method was extended to improve its performance by i...

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a form of refractory focal epilepsy, which includes latent period and chronic period. Microelectrode arrays capable multi-region detection neural activities are important for accurately identifying the epileptic focus pathogenesis mechanism in TLE. Here, we fabricated multi-shank MEAs to detect DG, hilus, CA3, CA1 TLE rat model. In rats, seizures were induced cha...

Patients with absence epilepsy fail to report almost 90% of their seizures. The clinical gold standard assess seizures is video-electroencephalography (vEEG) recorded in the hospital, an expensive and obtrusive procedure which requires also extended reviewing time. Wearable sensors, allow recording electroencephalography (EEG), accelerometer gyroscope have been used monitor epileptic patients h...

background: mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (tle) is a remediable epileptic syndrome. about 40% of patients continue to have seizures after standard temporal lobectomy. it has been suggested that some of these patients could actually suffer from a more complex epileptogenic network. because a few papers have been dedicated to this topic, we decided to write an article updating this theme. methods...

Epilepsy is a condition in which a patient has multiple unprovoked seizures which are not precipitated by another medical condition. It is a common neurological disorder that afflicts 1% of the population of the US, and is sometimes hard to diagnose if seizures are infrequent. Routine Electroencephalography (rEEG), where the electrical potentials of the brain are recorded on the scalp of a pati...