Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic disorders affecting individuals of all ages. A greater understanding of pathogenesis in epilepsy will likely provide the basis fundamental for development of new antiepileptic therapies that aim to prevent the epileptogenesis process or modify the progression of epilepsy in addition to treatment of epilepsy symptomatically. Therefore, severa...

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...

Religious and sociocultural beliefs influence the nature of treatment and care received by people with epilepsy. Many communities in Africa and other developing nations believe that epilepsy results from evil spirits, and thus, treatment should be through the use of herbaceous plants from traditional doctors and religious leadership. Community-based cross-sectional study designs were used to as...

PURPOSE Epilepsy affects 1 in 5 people with an intellectual disability (ID), but little is known about their experiences of living with epilepsy. A qualitative study was conducted to investigate the impact and management of epilepsy in people with ID. MATERIALS AND METHODS People with epilepsy and ID and their carers were invited to take part in semi-structured interviews. Eleven participants...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of epilepsy in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to determine the demographic and clinical characteristics of children with ASD and epilepsy in a large patient population. METHODS Cross-sectional study using four samples of children with ASD for a total of 5,815 participants with ASD. The prevalence of epilepsy was estimated from a populati...

background: the main purpose of the current study was to determine the effect of treating helicobacter pylori (hp) infection on seizure frequency in patients with refractory epilepsy. methods: a small sample of adult patients above 18 years of age with a diagnosis of refractory epilepsy was studied at the outpatient epilepsy clinic at shiraz university of medical sciences, from january 2009 thr...

OBJECTIVE Epilepsy adversely affects childhood development, possibly leading to increased economic burden in pediatric populations. We compared annual healthcare utilization and costs between children (<12 years old) with stable and uncontrolled epilepsy treated with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). METHODS Children (<12 years old) with epilepsy (ICD-9-CM 345.xx or 780.39) in 2008 were identified ...