background: lennox-gastaut syndrome (lgs) is an epileptic encephalopathy, characterized by drug-resistant multiple seizure types. the aim of this study was to determine if the adjunctive use of electroconvulsive therapy (ect) in patients with lgs and drug-resistant epilepsy is efficacious in decreasing their seizure frequency and also to investigate its safety and tolerability.   methods: this ...

The Spring 2022 issue of ABO inaugurates our new Pedagogies feature: the Concise Collections on Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women series. Each will include a Collection different female writer or artist, with three to five articles offering critically-informed and practice-based strategies for teaching in survey theme-based courses student audiences. This series seeks facilitate innovative effe...

We describe the failure of an intravenous benzodiazepine to control non-convulsive status epilepticus occurring in six patients with the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. In one patient the benzodiazepine induced a paradoxical response with clinical and electroencephalographic seizures.

INCE the discovery of bacterial transduction ( LEDERBERG, LEDERBERG, ZINDER and LIVELY 1951), it has been recognized that there are two distinct classes: special (MORSE, LEDERBERG and LEDERBERG 1956) and general (ZINDER and LEDERBERG 1952; LENNOX 1955; and JACOB 1955), which involve different mechanisms. In the case of general transduction, the chromosome segments carried by the phages can be o...