Received: December 26, 2016; Accepted: June 1, 2017

The relationship between epilepsy and psychoses has long been debated, and descriptions regarding symptoms of interictal psychoses in patients with epilepsy date back to even the Babylonian era. However, scant attention has been paid to this issue lately. Adequate recognition of psychoses in epilepsy is essential for physicians caring for the affected patients, because the impact on their quali...

Epilepsy affect almost 1% of the worldwide population. An early diagnosis seizure types is a crucial patient-dependent step for treatment selection process. The proper relies on correct identification type. As such, identifying type has biggest immediate influence therapy than detection, reducing neurologist’s efforts when reading and detecting seizures in EEG recordings. Most existing detectio...

AIMS Scalp-EEG interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) may be less predictive of the outcome of frontal lobe epilepsy surgery than of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. We identified factors associated with the location of scalp-EEG IEDs in intractable frontal lobe epilepsy. METHODS Ten factors were assessed in a retrospective review of 53 patients with either concordant (frontal lobe seizure ...

MOTIVATION The success or failure of an epilepsy surgery depends greatly on the localization of epileptic focus (origin of a seizure). We address the problem of identification of a seizure origin through an analysis of ictal electroencephalogram (EEG), which is proven to be an effective standard in epileptic focus localization. SUMMARY With a goal of developing an automated and robust way of ...

Approximately 1% of the world’s population has epilepsy, and 25% of epilepsy patients cannot be treated sufficiently by any available therapy. If an automatic seizure-detection system was available, it could reduce the time required by a neurologist to perform an off-line diagnosis by reviewing electroencephalogram (EEG) data. It could produce an on-line warning signal to alert healthcare profe...

PURPOSE Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has proved useful in measuring significant hemodynamic changes in the brain during epileptic seizures. The advance of NIRS-technology into wireless and portable devices raises the possibility of using the NIRS-technology for portable seizure detection. METHODS This study used NIRS to measure changes in oxygenated (HbO), deoxygenated (HbR), and total h...

Commentary Efforts to predict impending seizures before they actually occur have been the focus of extensive lines of research over decades. Successful seizure prediction would offer the possibility of immediate treatment to preempt the seizure, as well as to provide an opportunity for the patient to take precautionary measures and reduce risk. There is even evidence that simply reducing the un...

the most common type of childhood-onset epilepsy syndrome is childhood absence epilepsy (cae) with well-defined electro clinical features but unknown pathological basis. the incidence of absence epilepsy is about 2 and 8 out of every 100 000 children up to the age of 16, and the prevalence is 2 and 10% of children with any form of epilepsy. children with cae suffer from high rate of pretreatmen...

Received: May 18, 2017; Accepted: August 18, 2017