INTRODUCTION Apneic episodes have not previously been described in children with 1p36 deletion syndrome with seizures. Having encountered one such patient, we reviewed our experience of breathing difficulties in this syndrome, with particular attention to evidence of ictal apnea. We describe four children with 1p36 deletion syndrome, seizures and apneic episodes. METHOD Retrospective analysis...

how to cite this article: fallah r, nafisi moghadam r, fallah tafti m, salmani nodoushan m. results of noncontrast brain computed tomography scans of 1-18 year old epileptic children. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 33-38. objective the advent of computed tomography (ct) scan revolutionized the diagnosticevaluation of neurologic patients. the aim of this study was to evaluate brain ctresults of...

objective epilepsy is one of the most important problems in neurology. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between dairy products and seizures of the epileptic children based on their mothers' experience. materials & methods in a descriptive- analytic study, mothers' experience regarding the relationship between dairy products and seizures of their children was evaluated ...

Children with ASD often suffer from epilepsy and paroxysmal EEG abnormality. Purposes of this study are the confirmation of incidence of epileptic seizures and EEG abnormalities in children with autism using a high performance digital EEG, to examine the nature of EEG abnormalities such as locus or modality, and to determine if the development of children with ASD, who have experienced developm...

Epilepsy is one of the disorders with chronic, recurrent and sudden changes in neurological function due to electrical dysfunction of brain. Previous studies have indicated that this disorder may affect the quality of life and could change it. The aim of this study was evaluation of life quality in children with epileptic diseases. This is a cohort and clinical trial study. Demographic data inc...

Ketamine is one of the old anaesthetic agents which has regained popularity in analgesia, trauma, emergency medicine, neurology and psychiatry. Recently several cases were reported on ketamine induced seizures otherwise healthy children despite its treatment refractory status epilepticus. We present an eight-year-old prematurely born boy who developed two episodes generalized tonic clonic follo...

Background: One third of epileptic patients are resistant to several anti-epileptic drugs (AED). P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is an efflux transporter encoded by ATP-binding cassette subfamily B member 1 (ABCB1) gene that excludes drugs from the cells and plays a significant role in AEDs resistance. Over-expression of P-gp could be a result of polymorphisms in ABCB1 gene. We studied the association of...

Simultaneous video (closed circuit television [CCTV]) and EEG recordings are important in the differentiation of epileptic and non-epileptic paroxysmal episodes and in the classification of epilepsy syndromes. An additional benefit from the observation of the child on CCTV is the possible identification of specific clinical, including genetic, conditions. This three-year prospective study of 27...

SCN2A mutations are associated with a broad spectrum of neurological phenotypes ranging from neonatal or infantile seizures with normal development to epileptic encephalopathies with severe developmental delay. Recently, movement disorders in children with SCN2A mutations and epileptic encephalopathies including infantile spasms has been described [1,2]. We present a case of a typically develop...

Brain-derived factor (BDNF) is a member of neurotrophin family and is localized and upregulated in areas implicated in epileptogenesis. Several lines of evidence make the BDNF gene a plausible candidate gene for predisposition to epilepsy. In this study, we tested that BDNF might be involved in the etiology of childhood PE. To assess whether BDNF gene C270T polimorphism could be implicated in v...