the differentiation of vasovagal syncope and epileptic seizure is sometimes problematic, since vasovagal syncope may mimic epileptic seizures in many ways. the present report describes a patient who had been diagnosed and treated as having epilepsy with medically-refractory sei-zures for 16 years. often, unlike epileptic seizures, tonic-clonic convulsions and postictal confusion are uncommon fe...

introduction: regarding chronic nature of epilepsy and its side effects and to access the effective treatment procedures, herbal medicine has received remarkable interest. the aim of this study was to determine the anticonvulsant effects of hydro-alcoholic extract of anethum graveolens seed on pentylenetetrazol (ptz) -induced seizure in male mice. methods: fifty-six albino male mice were divide...

objective neonates, for many reasons, are at particular risk for the development of seizures, which are a strong predictor of later morbidity and mortality in infants. we undertook this study to determine the incidence, etiologic distribution and neonatal seizure type in neonates with hospital admission over a period of 4 years. materials and methods this, a retrospective study of newborns admi...

The anticonvulsant action of two neuroactive steroids, 3alpha-hydroxy-5beta-pregnan-20-one (pregnanolone) and triethylammonium 3 alpha-hydroxy-20-oxo-5 alpha-pregnan-21-yl hydrogensuccinate (THDOC-conjugate), was tested against motor seizures induced by pentetrazol in immature rats. Five age groups (7, 12, 18 and 25 days old and adult rats) were pretreated with the steroids in doses from 2.5 to...

Introduction: Regarding chronic nature of epilepsy and its side effects and to access the effective treatment procedures, herbal medicine has received remarkable interest. The aim of this study was to determine the anticonvulsant effects of hydro-alcoholic extract of Anethum graveolens seed on pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) -induced seizure in male mice. Methods: Fifty-six albino male mice were div...

Post-traumatic seizures affect 12-35% of children after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and are associated with worse cognitive and functional outcome, even after adjustment for severity of injury. Unfortunately, experimental models of pediatric post-traumatic epilepsy are lacking, and pathogenesis remains poorly understood. We have applied a standard model of TBI in immature rats to determine the...

background: an important role for oxidative stress, as a consequence of epileptic seizures, has been suggested. coriandrum sativum has been shown that have antioxidant effects. central nervous system depressant effects of c. sativum have also been reported. in this study, the effects of hydroalcoholic extract of aerial parts of the plants on brain tissues oxidative damages following seizures in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a daily patient reminder on seizure documentation accuracy. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Monitoring unit of an academic department of epileptology. Patients Consecutive sample of 91 adult inpatients with focal epilepsies undergoing video-electroencephalographic monitoring. Intervention While all patients were asked to document seizures at ...

Our working hypothesis is that constant interpulse interval (IPI) electrical stimulation would resonate with endogenous epileptogenic reverberating circuits, inducing seizures, whereas a random interinterval electrical stimulation protocol would promote desynchronization of such neural networks, producing an anticonvulsant effect. Male Wistar rats were stereotaxically implanted with a bipolar e...

------------------------------INDICATIONS AND USAGE-------------------------Levetiracetam in Sodium Chloride Injection is an antiepileptic drug indicated for adults (16 years and older) with the following seizure types when oral administration is temporarily not feasible. • Partial onset seizures (1.1) • Myoclonic seizures in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (1.2) • Primarygeneralized ...