normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: e pilepsy is a common, chronic neurological disorder that affects more than 40 million people worldwide. epilepsy is characterized by interictal and ictal functional disturbances. the presence of interictal epileptiform discharges (ieds) can help to confirm a clinical diagnosis of epilepsy, and their location a...

Epilepsy represents a personal and major community burden because about one-third of epileptic patients remain resistant to medical treatment. Flupirtine, as potassium channel opener, can be rational template for the treatment epilepsy. To investigate flupirtine +/- celecoxib versus diazepam anticonvulsant role on induced epilepsy in mice. Generalized seizures status epilepticus were by pentyle...

Epilepsy is a condition that can cause person to experience seizures repeatedly. attack someone when there damage or changes in the brain. This study researchers tried use sampling techniques as feature of extracting epilepsy signal features and K-NN method identify patterns. The data this took from University Bonn's Epileptologie clinic which consisted set A, open eye normal signal, B closed C...

epilepsy is a disease with high prevalence, which interferes driving and may lead to car accident this case-control study has been done on 100 epileptic patients and 100 persons as control group, who had history of driving. we gathered our patients with face to face interview and registering their information in special forms which were prepared for this study. there were three times more accid...

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease characterized by recurrent seizures that affects about 70 million people worldwide. Antiepileptic drugs are the most commonly used medications in treatment of epilepsy. They help control 60-70% people. The remaining percentage patients suffer from drug-resistant epilepsy, prompting scientists to look for natural substances would prevent or support effe...

objective epilepsy is a common disorder affecting approximately 1% of the population. it is estimated that about 20- 30% of the patients become refractory to proper medical therapies. such cases are often termed intractable. intractable epilepsy (ie) is a serious condition in children, leading to significant impairment in quality of life, as well as behavioral and psychiatric problems. in this ...

the most common type of childhood-onset epilepsy syndrome is childhood absence epilepsy (cae) with well-defined electro clinical features but unknown pathological basis. the incidence of absence epilepsy is about 2 and 8 out of every 100 000 children up to the age of 16, and the prevalence is 2 and 10% of children with any form of epilepsy. children with cae suffer from high rate of pretreatmen...

epilepsy is the third most common chronic brain disorder which is characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate seizures. mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mtle) is the most common type of refractory epilepsy. increasing evidence indicates that neuroinflammation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of mtle. hundreds of micro-rnas have been found to be abnormally expressed in epilept...

although treated properly for epilepsy, a number of epileptic children have intractable seizures and about 5-10 per cent of them do not respond to anti -epileptic drugs. in the years 1986-1996 about 10,000 epileptic patients were treated in the children's medical center in tehran. a retrospective study of their medical records revealed that 41 of them had intractable seizures. i of these 4...

Abstract Purpose of Review Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) is the commonest cause epilepsy-related premature mortality people with chronic epilepsy. It most devastating epilepsy outcome. We describe and discuss risk factors possible pathophysiological mechanisms to elucidate preventative strategies avert SUDEP. Recent Findings death accounts for a significant proportion compared gen...