Responsive, implantable stimulation devices to treat epilepsy are now in clinical trials. New evidence suggests that these devices may be more effective when they deliver therapy before seizure onset. Despite years of effort, prospective seizure prediction, which could improve device performance, remains elusive. In large part, this is explained by lack of agreement on a statistical framework f...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To investigate the duration of seizures and its relationship to seizure type, epilepsy syndrome, and seizure clustering. METHODS We examined 1,251 seizures from 152 patients who underwent video-electrocorticographic monitoring with subdural electrodes. Their seizure duration, seizure types, epilepsy syndromes, and seizure clusters were analyzed. RESULTS The median sei...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa epilepsy is more common in patients with multiple sclerosis (ms) than in the general population, occurring in 2%–3% of patients. convulsions may be either tonic–clonic in nature or partial complex. in these individuals, seizures most likely result from lesions present in the cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter. a jacksonian seizure is a typ...

introduction: febrile seizure is the most common problem in pediatric neurology that occur s in 3– 4% of children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate demographic and clinical characteristics of first febrile seizures in children admitted to the hospital. methods: in a descriptive retrospective study, medical records of children with first febrile seizure, admitted between march 2004and a...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors of seizure recurrence and the most common comorbidities in elderly patients with epilepsy. METHOD We did a retrospective study of 278 patients older than 65 years with first seizure. We evaluated electrolytes, blood glucose, urea and creatinine levels, and performed electrocardiography (ECG), and routine electroencephalogram (EEG) on all patients. We ev...

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The generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method is used to obtain the computational results of two-layer cross-ply laminated shell under rapid uniform heat induced vibration. In the thermally insulated vibration analyses of a laminated shell, the sudden uniform heat input over its lower surface only and temperature load is linear of axial coordinate. The GDQ method provides a method for ca...

Neonatal seizures can lead to later life epilepsy and neurobehavioral deficits, and there are no treatments to prevent these sequelae. We showed previously that hypoxia-induced seizures in a neonatal rat model induce rapid phosphorylation of serine-831 (S831) and Serine 845 (S845) sites of the AMPA receptor GluR1 subunit and later neuronal hyperexcitability and epilepsy, suggesting that seizure...

febrile seizure is the most common type of seizure in children and a variety of causes are considered to be responsible for it. there are some reports that zinc may have a role in febrile seizure. the aim of this study was to compare the serum zinc level in children with and without febrile seizure. in this case-control study, 52 children with febrile seizure compared with 52 healthy children b...