Corresponding Author: A.Tavassoli MD Ali-Asghar Children’s Hospital,Tehran, Iran Emial: [email protected] Abstract Objective The first attack of unprovoked seizure is more frequent than recurrent one and neuroimaging is one of the main parts of the evaluation of these attacks in order to demonstrate the cause and predict the prognosis. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence...

Objective The purpose of this study is to analyze the seizure semiologic characteristics of patients with autoimmune epilepsy (AE) and describe the investigation characteristics of AE using a larger sample size. Methods This observational retrospective case series study was conducted from a tertiary epilepsy center between May 2014 and March 2017. Cases of new-onset seizures were selected bas...

introduction: febrile seizure is the most common type of seizure that occurs in 3– 4% of children below the age of 5 years. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of recurrence of febrile and afebrile seizures after the first febrile seizure. methods: in a descriptive prospective study, 139 children (6months to 6years old) admitted between march 2004and august 2005 at yazd sha...

Sir, EEG monitoring during ECT procedure to measure the duration of seizures has been recommended (American Psychiatric Association, 1990; Freeman et al, 1989). We have designed an EEG amplifier of 2 channels with a gain of 2000 and filter settings of 2Hz (high pass), 40Hz (low pass) and 50Hz (notch filter) and recorded from F3 and F4 referenced to ipsilateral mastoids with ground on forehead. ...

Forty-three patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is presented. The female to male ratio was 2.9:1. The patients answered a standardized questionnaire pertaining to social situation, medical history, onset of epilepsy, types and frequency of seizures, treatment, experienced control over seizures and consequences of having epilepsy. Myoclonic jerks, which are the hallmark of the condit...

Kainic acid (KA) induces status epilepticus in both adult and young rats but with different consequences on pathology and gene expression. In adults, GluR2(B) AMPA subunit expression is markedly reduced in CA3 neurons before neurodegeneration. In pups, the GluR2(B) subunit is sustained, possibly contributing to neuronal survival. Mechanisms underlying the reduced vulnerability of developing neu...

There is insufficient information on the epilepsies in Saudi Arabia. The objectives were to classify the patients according to seizure types and epilepsies as well as to determine the factors associated with control. In a hospital-based study, clinical information, electroencephalographic and neuroimaging findings were utilized to classify the cases into seizure types and epilepsies according t...

Objective: The detection of epileptic seizures from scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) signals can facilitate early diagnosis and treatment. Previous studies suggested that the Gaussianity EEG distributions changes depending on presence or absence seizures; however, no general signal models explain such in within a unified scheme. Methods: This paper describes formulation stochastic model based m...

Coadministration of azoles and vincristine has been shown to increase vincristine neurotoxic effects due to the inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoform 3A4, for which vincristine is a substrate. Despite the absence of any casual relationship between seizure and coadministration of azoles, few case reports of vincristine-induced seizure have been documented after coadministration of fluconaz...

PURPOSE To correlate the persistence of contralateral spikes during sleep after unilateral surgery with seizure outcome in a temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) population and to test the existing hypotheses about the origin of the contralateral spikes in temporal lobe epilepsy. METHODS In the 19 patients selected for this study unilateral temporal lobe surgery was performed. To investigate the cour...