Pogancev MK1*, Tatjana RM2 and Ivana PS3 1Child and Youth Health Care Institute of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2Department of Developmental Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Serbia 3Department of Developmental Neurology and Epileptology-Pediatritians, School of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Serbia *Corresponding author: Marija Knezevic Pogancev, Child and Youth Health C...

Epilepsy outcome data should be concerned not only with seizure frequency, but should also assess present potential as a function of preexisting capabilities. Reported findings on outcome are not consistent, although view of epilepsy outcome since the 1970's is much more optimistic. The founding of an Institute of Epileptology can stimulate concerted action to provide the scientific community w...

1 Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA USA 2 Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for Information Transmission Problems and Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 3 Draper Laboratory, Cambridge MA, USA 4 Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 5 The Institute of Ageing and Health and Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 6 Department of Epileptology...

The aim of this section is to cover the subject matter of epileptology in a comprehensive series of updates over a 3 year period. As a commissioned section, a renowned expert within each area has been asked to contribute. Unfortunately this month's issue does not contain any CPD content, but in order to keep within our schedule, the September issue will contain a 'Double' section on Continuing ...

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), email: [email protected] 2. Empatica, Inc, Cambridge, MA and Milan, Italy 3. Department of Neurology, New York University Langone Medical Center 4. Edward B. Bromfield Epilepsy Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 5. Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 6. In...

The most important diagnostic problem in epileptology is to distinguish epileptic seizures from syncope and from psychogenic attacks. A less common problem is the need to distinguish epilepsy from other paroxysmal disorders with which it may overlap. Improved understanding of ion channel disorders has blurred the definition of epilepsy. The diagnosis of episodic altered consciousness rests larg...

The MICHAEL PRIZE was awarded for the first time in 1963 to stimulate epilepsy research in Germany; it is now one of the most highly regarded international awards for the best contribution to scientific and to clinical research which promote further development in epileptology. The MICHAEL PRIZE is awarded biennially and specially designed to attract younger scientists (normally not older than ...

The most reliable technique for the diagnosis of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is nocturnal video-polysomnography, which is an expensive procedure and unavailable in many Departments of Neurology and Epileptology around the world. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of routine video-EEG and video-EEG after sleep deprivation, during the daytime, in the diagnosis of NFL...