PURPOSE To assess the prevalence of epilepsy in a rural district of Lao PDR and to describe the clinical and epidemiological profile of the disease. METHODS Door-to-door screening was performed on the entire population of 8 randomly selected villages in the Hinheub district, using an internationally validated and standardized questionnaire. Additional passive case detection was performed thro...

BACKGROUND Choosing an antiepileptic medication to treat a patient with epilepsy can be a complicated process during which the treating physician must base her or his decision on efficacy and safety of each of many available drugs. The lack of comparative studies between medications is one of the reasons. METHODS We conducted a survey on the management of newly diagnosed epilepsy in adult pat...

how to cite this article: hashemiaghdam a, sharifi a, miri m, tafakhori a. seizure-control effect of levatiracetam on juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and other epileptic syndromes: literature review of recent studies. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):1-8. abstract objective various epileptic syndromes may present in adolescence and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (jme) is known to be the most comm...

Abstract Introduction In children with epilepsy, comorbidities are frequent. dyslexia, increasingly acknowledged. Little is known about temporal aspects (dyslexia antedating or postdating epilepsy onset, time interval), types, and dyslexia phenotypes. Method From over 1000 files of 51 cases were retrospectively identified a formal diagnosis dyslexia. Ages at diagnoses variables, dyslexia-relate...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: e pilepsy is a common, chronic neurological disorder that affects more than 40 million people worldwide. epilepsy is characterized by interictal and ictal functional disturbances. the presence of interictal epileptiform discharges (ieds) can help to confirm a clinical diagnosis of epilepsy, and their location a...

“Subclinical” generalized epileptiform discharges in patients with epilepsy may be associated transitory cognitive impairment upon appropriate testing.1-4 Increased reaction time is the most sensitive behavioral correlate to these discharges.3,4

We estimate and compare two models, the Generalized Taylor Economy (GTE) and the Multiple Calvo model (MC), that have been built to model the distributions of contract lengths observed in the data. We compare the performances of these models to those of the standard models such as the Calvo and its popular variant, using the ad hoc device of indexation. The estimations are made with Bayesian te...

Myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (MEI) is a primary generalized epilepsy. According to the literature, the outcome of MEI is usually benign. Here we report a patient who developed myoclonic astatic epilepsy at age four, having been seizure free without antiepileptic drug treatment for 2 years after his recovery from MEI. At age four, a video-EEG-recording showed frequent head nodding (atonic seizu...

BACKGROUND Epilepsy associated with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) represents an early and important complication, often not clearly reported and described in the literature. Consequently, there are controversial data about the clinical characteristics of epilepsy and electroencephalographic (EEG) abnormalities found in these patients. DATA SOURCES Based on recent original publications, we have ...