Background: Most epileptic patients are diagnosed and treated in childhood adolescence this period is crucial attaining peak bone mass. Few studies conducted on children showing long term effects of AEDs metabolism. So, the present study was to evaluate correlation long-term uses with changes metabolism using biochemical marker. Methods: Total 140 subjects divided into 70cases - Epileptic aged ...

how to cite this article: soltanifar a, ashrafzadeh f, mohareri f, mokhber n. depression and anxiety in iranian mothers ofchildren with epilepsy. iranian journal of child neurology 2012;6(1):29-34.   objective epilepsy is a common neurological disorder in children. parents with epileptic children have many psychosocial care needs. so the main goal of this study was to evaluate depression and an...

Prolactin secretion after tonic-clonic seizures (10 patients), complex partial seizures (five) and non-epileptic attacks (three) was studied in a group of children aged between 0.3 and 14 years. Seven patients with other subcategories of seizure disorders were also studied. Eight children with tonic-clonic seizures exhibited post ictal concentrations of prolactin greater than 500 mU/l. One of t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the ketogenic diet in Indian children with uncontrolled epilepsy. STUDY DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Hospital based. PATIENTS 105 children (age 4 months to 18 years) with uncontrolled epilepsy enrolled in the ketogenic diet program over a period of 9 years and followed up for 25.7+/- 20.3 months (median:17 months) on the ketogenic d...

In an unselected cohort of 282 children, serum immunoglobulin (Ig) concentrations were determined shortly after the first presentation with one or more unprovoked epileptic seizures and before the start of treatment with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs), and after 9-18 months of AEDs use. At intake, IgA, IgG1, IgG2 and IgG4 concentrations were significantly higher than published reference values in ...

Auditory processing during childhood may be altered if there is any predisposing factor during the course of development. Neurological disorders are among the risk factors for auditory processing disorders. Some studies have shown verbal auditory processing disorder in children with epilepsy. Objective To verify the performance of children with epilepsy on a nonverbal dichotic test. Methods...

OBJECTIVE Parents of epileptic children are willing to know if specific foods precipitate or aggravate their kids' seizures. Nonetheless conclusive data are limited. Alternative medicine has become a popular approach to many diseases in the world and there are limited data about this approach to epilepsy in Iran. We tried to evaluate attitude of parents of epileptic children to food-epilepsy re...

The total population of 11,865 children of compulsory school age resident on the Isle of Wight was studied to determine the prevalence of epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and other neurological disorders. With the use of reliable methods, children selected from screening of the total population were individually studied by means of parental interviews and questionaries, neurological examination and ps...

BACKGROUND Failure to recognise diagnostic uncertainty between the epilepsies and non-epileptic events may be a factor in high rates of misdiagnosis. AIMS To explore the results of acknowledging diagnostic uncertainty in a cohort of children presenting with paroxysmal events. METHODS Children (29 days-16th birthday) with new presentations of paroxysmal disorders were ascertained through out...