1 Speech and Language Pathologist – Doctoral Student at Institute of Education University of Minho – Research Center in Education. Grant Researcher for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology SFRH/BD/70351/2010, Project Co-funded by the European Social Fund. Rua Simões de Almeida no 95 casa 41, 4715 – 105 Portugal – Braga. 2 Ph.D., Associate Professor University of Minho – Institut...

From a series of 217 consecutive temporal resections for intractable epilepsy between 1993 and 2000, we identified all patients with large non-neoplastic extratemporal lesions. Only patients with known postsurgical outcomes with follow up for more than two years were included. Fifteen patients were identified. All patients had a history of medically refractory epilepsy with clinical and ictal e...

Indirect taxes on transportation activities that pollute can correct externalities and close the gaps between private and social costs. However, policy makers often find such Pigou taxes difficult to implement because of political resistance due to possibly adverse affects on equity. For this reason it is important to assess the distributional aspects of environmental levies. This article estim...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to explore the treatment and outcome of epileptogenic temporal lobe cavernous malformations (CMs). METHODS We analyzed retrospectively the profiles of 52 patients diagnosed as temporal lobe CMs associated with epilepsy. Among the 52 cases, 11 underwent a direct resection of CM along with the adjacent zone of hemosiderin rim without electrocorticogram (ECoG)...