One of the main areas of behavioural neuroscience is forecasting the human behaviour. Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behaviour, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness. An estimated 5% of the world population has epileptic seizure but there is not any method to cure it. More...

The association between major life events and seizure frequency in patients with chronic epilepsy has previously been suggested in the literature. However, significant life events as precipitating factors for the occurrence of the first seizure have been considered but not documented. Recognition of such triggers may lead to a better understanding of the cause and mechanism of the epilepsy. Usi...

PURPOSE To review the clinical and neurophysiological data of 21 patients with epilepsy due to temporal lobe tumors and who had undergone evaluation and surgery at the Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the occurrence of a mirror focus was influenced either by certain clinical factors or if the surgical outcome was influenced by ...

Patients with epilepsy may experience psychiatric symptoms preceding the seizure (pre-ictal), following the seizure (post-ictal), independently of seizure occurrence (interictal), or as an expression of the seizure (ictal). Compared to interictal, peri-ictal psychiatric symptoms are less investigated and recognized. However, they contribute substantially to disability and distress among people ...

Epilepsy causes repeated seizures in an individual's life, which transient irregularities the brain's electrical activity. It results different physical symptoms that are abnormal. Various antiepileptic drugs fail to minimize patient seizures. The electroencephalogram (EEG) signal recordings provide us with time-series data set for epileptic seizure detection and analysis. These signals highly ...

PURPOSE Bilateral electrical stimulation of anterior nuclei of thalamus (ANT) has shown promising effects on epileptic seizures. However, bilateral implantation increases the risk of surgical complications and side effects. This study was undertaken to access the effectiveness of a stimulation paradigm involving high frequency and low intensity currents to stimulate the left ANT in rats. METH...

PURPOSE Most epilepsy surgery candidates are young adults. Outcome reports after epilepsy surgery in patients ≥50 years are few and varying. The aim of this study was to describe patient characteristics of older compared to younger adults and analyse seizure, complication and vocational outcomes in a large population-based series. METHODS We analysed data from the Swedish National Epilepsy Su...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: there is a broad variation in reported frequencies of seizure in multiple sclerosis (ms). in this study, the seizure and its characteristics analyzed among a large group of patients with ms. materials and methods: we reviewed the medical records of all definite ms patients referred to the ms clinic of kashani h...

In clinical practice, seizures independent of hypoglycemia are observed in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) more frequently than expected by chance, suggesting a link. However, seizures during management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) have generally been considered a bad prognostic factor, and usually associated with well-known biochemical or neurological complications. We present ...

BACKGROUND Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a contiguous gene deletion syndrome involving variable size deletions of the 4p16.3 region. Seizures are frequently, but not always, associated with WHS. We hypothesised that the size and location of the deleted region may correlate with seizure presentation. METHODS Using chromosomal microarray analysis, we finely mapped the breakpoints of copy nu...