Stress is the most commonly reported precipitating factor for seizures in patients with epilepsy. Despite compelling anecdotal evidence for stress-induced seizures, animal models of the phenomena are sparse and possible mechanisms are unclear. Here, we tested the hypothesis that increased levels of the stress-associated hormone corticosterone (CORT) would increase epileptiform activity and spon...

Epilepsy is known as one of the most frequent neurological diseases, characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures. Oxidative stress is believed to directly participate in pathways leading to neurodegeneration, which serves as the most important propagating factor, leading to the epileptic condition and cognitive decline. Moreover, there is also a growing body of ev...

introduction: considering the prevalence of epilepsy and the failure of available treatments for many epileptic patients, finding more effective drugs in the treatment of epilepsy seems necessary. oxidative stress has a special role in the pathogenesis of epileptic syndrome. therefore, in the present study, we have examined the anti-epileptic and anti-oxidant properties of the ferula assa foeti...

how to cite this article: najafi fard t, pourmohamadreza-tajrishi m, sajedi f, rezasoltani p, delavar kasmaei h. the effectiveness of attribution retraining on health enhancement of epileptic children. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):53-59. abstract objective epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease. evidence has indicated that epilepsy has an impact on mental and physical health of c...

In the wake of Charcot, École de la Salpêtrière became passionate about major crises or hysterical attacks: at time, hysteria was not just this great crisis, even if it represented an ideal heuristic model for a patient presentation that left lasting impression on people's minds. The attack is framework study hystero-epilepsy opens way to psychopathological explanation. heirs School's knowledge...

background: diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (pnes) particularly in patients with epilepsy poses a challenge to physicians to care. this study is aimed at determining the frequency of depression and anxiety among iranian patients with pnes. materials and methods: sixty patients with pnes and one hundred age-and-sex matching healthy controls were enrolled in this study from januar...

Metallic elements participating in the processes like: oxidative stress, excitotoxicity, mitochondrial dysfunction or protein aggregation may lead to the atrophy and death of neurons in case of some neurodegenerative disorders [2-4]. Because epileptic seizures induce neurodegeneration in selected areas of brain it is suspected that metals may be involved in the pathogenesis and progress of epil...

An epileptic girl with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome had seizures triggered specifically by blinking, but not by other eye movements or by photic stimulation. Electrographic and clinical seizures were most reliably precipitated by repetitive blinking produced voluntarily on command, by reflex blinking on corneal stimulation, or by psychogenic triggers of blinking such as social stress or cognitive ef...

PURPOSE AND METHODS Migraine, with or without aura, affects from 10% to 14% of the population, and is as such one of the most common headache disorders. A unified hypothesis for the physiopathology of migraine and its relationship with epileptic migraine and migralepsy has yet to be formulated. Trigemino-vascular system (TVS) activation is believed to play a crucial role in the "pain phase" in ...