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Spatiotemporal analysis of the cortical sources of the steady-state visual evoked potential. Fox PT, Raichle ME. Stimulus rate dependence of regional cerebral blood flow in human striate cortex, demonstrated by positron emission tomography.

Five new cases of reading epilepsy (RE) are reported. This is an epilepsy syndrome belonging to the group of idiopathic localization-related epilepsies. They all have some interesting features which contribute to the understanding of the pathomechanism and nosology of this specific type of reflex epilepsy. In our first patient the precipitating effect of texts in unknown languages depended upon...

Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare, focal and progressive inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology, resulting in unilateral hemispheric atrophy, contralateral hemiparesis and hemianopia, dysphasia with language-dominant hemispheric involvement and intractable epilepsy. RE is associated with polymorphic seizure types including epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) [1]. Current treatment stra...

BACKGROUND Seizures can lead to cardiac arrhythmias by a number of mechanisms including activation/inhibition of cortical autonomic centers, increase in vagal tone through activation of brainstem reflex centers, and respiratory failure. Ictal asystole (IA) is a potential mechanism underlying sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). We analyzed the clinical features of 5 patients who develop...

To examine individual or combined effects of static stretch and explosive contraction on quadriceps spinal-reflex excitability (the peak Hoffmann’s reflex normalized by the motor-response) latency times motor-response. Fourteen healthy young males randomly experienced four conditions (stretch, contraction, + control—no intervention). For condition, three sets a 30 s hold using modified Thomas t...

STARTLE is a basic alerting reaction common to all mammals. A rapid reflex not amenable to voluntary control, startle was studied extensively by Strauss in 1929,1 and is the subject of a 1939 monograph by Landis and Hunt2 and of a more recent study by Gogan.3 In the human adult, except for minor interpersonal variations, a stereotyped motor pattern is seen consisting of eye blinking; facial gri...

Electroencephalographic characteristics and clinical symptoms of an avian genetic reflex epilepsy have been transferred from Fayoumi epileptic (Fepi) chickens to non-epileptic chickens by embryonic homotopic grafts of brain neuroepithelium. Transplanted tissues belonging to the prosencephalic vesicle transferred epileptic electrical features while tissues from the mesencephalic vesicle were res...

In reflex epilepsies, alteration of γ oscillations may mediate transition between interictal and ictal states. Here, we explored a patient having seizures triggered by syrup intake. From intracranial electroencephalography combined with functional MRI, the overlap of the gustatory cortex and of the preictal and ictal onset zones, as defined by early gamma changes, motivated the successful resec...

Objective To develop a checklist that identifies patients who have “obvious” indications for neural antibody testing, and compare its diagnostic performance to predictive scores. Background Numerous scores been developed help determine which with epilepsy or seizures of unknown etiology should undergo testing. However, their advantage compared only performing testing in (e.g. broader features a...