PURPOSE The purpose of our study is to describe intellectual functioning in three common childhood epilepsy syndromes - frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE), childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BECTS). And also to determine the influence of epilepsy related variables, type of epilepsy, age at epilepsy onset, duration and frequency of epilepsy, and treatment ...

Recurrent seizures are characteristic to epilepsy, which often arise due increased electrical activity. Ligand-gated ion channels considered as key factors in epilepsy they regulate and maintain neuronal membrane potential via regulating transportation. Therefore, this study aims identify channel-related single nucleotide variations that risk determine their effects on pathogenicity, protein st...

sleep plays a vital role in regulating physiological mechanisms in the human body. nowadays, by the change of lifestyle and as a consequence of longer work hours and increased accessibility to media, sleep disturbance becomes a common problem in modern society. many studies demonstrated that sleep disturbance triggers a systemic low-grade inflammation by increasing the level of several cytokine...

objective in the majority of patients with intractable epilepsy, seizures can be well controlled with appropriate medication. however, current estimates indicate that some of patients with epilepsy are refractory to all forms of medical therapy. the surgical treatment of intractable epilepsy in children has  evolved with advances in technical innovations. these medically intractable patients ar...

Objective: To compare the emotional structure and coping strategies in patients with psychogenic non epileptic seizures, epilepsy and control group. Methods: Among patients with complaining of epilepsy attacks that referred to clinic of Imam Reza (Peace be upon him) in Shiraz, 30 patients with psychogenic non epileptic seizures and 30 patients with epilepsy were selected .A total of 30 patients...

epilepsy is a common neurologic disorder affecting approximately 1% of the population. the prevalence of active epilepsy in kerman,iran is 7.87/1000 individuals. the past decade has brought many advances to the treatment of epilepsy, including many new pharmacological agents. lamotrigine is one of the new antiepileptic drugs. lamotrigine has many side effects; the most important of which are al...

objective the aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of a modified atkins diet for intractable childhood epilepsy. materials & methods twenty one children with medically intractable epilepsy were enrolled in the study. inclusion criteria were at least four seizures per month and a trial of at least three anticonvulsants without becoming seizure-free. the subjects...

Pharmacy teams in both primary and secondary care can support people with epilepsy, the vast majority of whom will be taking one or more anti-seizure medicines (ASMs) to manage their condition. This article is second a series focuses on management epilepsy. Information relating symptoms diagnosis found […]

Malformations of the cerebral cortex are often causes epilepsy. The latest changes in their classification summarized. description lissencephaly and Miller–Dicker syndrome, pachygyria, polymicrogyria, hemimegaloencephaly, holoprosencephaly, schizencephaly, gray matter heterotopia is given. features epilepsy these diseases described. Magnetic resonance imaging scans for focal cortical dysplasia,...