Background and Objective: Febrile seizures are one of the most common neurological disorders in children. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent of abnormal EEG reports and their association with other risk factors of febrile seizures. Material &Method: In this prospective observational study, all patients with febrile seizure admitted in Mousavi Hospital in Zanjan, Iran, from Ap...

Introduction and Aims: Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder and a type of dementia. 80% of dementia in older adults is because of Alzheimer’s disease. According to multiple research articles, Alzheimer's has several changes in EEG signals such as slowing of rhythms, reduction in complexity and reduction in functional associations, and disordered functional commun...

objective electroencephalogram (eeg) is an easy and non invasive evaluation method for diagnosis and early prognosis in children. our aim was to assess the association between eeg and the patients' developmental quotient (dq) level in phenylketonuria. materials & methods in this study, 94 pku patients (45 boys, 49 girls; mean age: 8.5 6.2 years) who were diagnosed through newborn screening test...

driver fatigue may impose the risk of crashes and is a leading cause of death in transportation industry. this study aimed to detect driver cognitive fatigue based on changes in eeg frequency bands in non-professional drivers during a simulated driving task. in a descriptive-analytical study, 12 healthy male car drivers took part in a two hour driving session on a simulated monotonous road, whi...

how to cite this article: asadi-pooya aa, emami m. is interictal eeg correlated with the seizure type in idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsies? iran j child neurol 2012;6(2): 25-28.   objective we investigated the correlation between different interictal eeg abnormalities observed in patients with idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsies (iges) and their seizure types. material & metho...

objective: behavioral disorders of children and adolescents have long been a subject of discussion among researchers of pedology,   psychology, medicine and psychiatry and are also a commonly encountered complaint of patients referring to the pediatric neurology out patient clinics. the main purpose of the present study is to survey some organic disorders, e.g. temporal lobe epilepsy (non convu...

introduction: computer games have attracted remarkable attentions in general publics with different cultures and their effects are subject of research by cognitive neuroscientists. in the present study, possible effects of the game fifa 2015 on cognitive performance, hormonal levels, and electroencephalographic (eeg) signals were evaluated in young male volunteers. methods: thirty two subjects ...

original article   mental fatigue (mf) is considered as a contributor factor in incident, even catastrophic one. electroencephalography measurement has been the most acceptable method to assess mf by neurologists. however, this method could be hardly feasible in real work setting. flicker fusion device, by contrast, is more usable at work setting. the purpose of this study was to compare the cr...