Epilepsy - the world's most common serious brain disorder - is defined by recurrent unprovoked seizures that result from complex interactions between distributed neural populations. We explore some macroscopic characteristics of emergent ictal networks by considering intracranial recordings from human subjects with intractable epilepsy. For each seizure, we compute a simple measure of linear co...

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, and affects 50 million people worldwide. Approximately 30% of these do not have seizure control even with the best available medications, hence renewed and increasing interest in the use of dietary treatments to treat epilepsy. These treatments include the traditional ketogenic diets but also the ...

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, and affects 50 million people worldwide. Approximately 30% of these do not have seizure control even with the best available medications, hence renewed and increasing interest in the use of dietary treatments to treat epilepsy. These treatments include the traditional ketogenic diets but also the ...

PURPOSE To determine the frequency, causes, risk factors and outcome following early posttraumatic seizure. METHODS A retrospective analysis of age, sex, mechanism of injury, type and onset of unprovoked seizure occurring within one week of injury, admission coma score, and Glasgow outcome score in patients with nonpenetrating head injury. RESULTS Eighty six (10.2%) of 845 head injuredpatie...

Human epilepsy is a disease characterized by sudden, unprovoked, recurrent seizures accompanied by pathological electrical activity in the brain, and is frequently resistant to drug treatment. The ability to anticipate the onset of these incapacitating episodes would -hopefullypermit clinical interventions and avoid the serious consequences they may provoque. In this work we first consider the ...

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, and affects 50 million people worldwide. Approximately 30% of these do not have seizure control even with the best available medications, hence renewed and increasing interest in the use of dietary treatments to treat epilepsy. These treatments include the traditional ketogenic diets but also the ...

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, and affects 50 million people worldwide. Approximately 30% of these do not have seizure control even with the best available medications, hence renewed and increasing interest in the use of dietary treatments to treat epilepsy. These treatments include the traditional ketogenic diets but also the ...

M e t h o d s Design: Randomized controlled trial. Allocation: Concealed.* Blinding: Unblinded.* Follow-up period: 2 and 5 years. Setting: Centers in the United Kingdom, India, Chile, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Yugoslavia. Patients: 1443 patients ≥ 1 month of age (mean age 25 y, 57% men) with documented history of ≥ 1 clinically definite, spontaneous, unpro...