objective in this study, we investigated the changes of the serum levels of thyroidhormones including thyroxine (t4), triiodothyronine (t3), t3 resin uptake andthyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) in epileptic children during treatment withanti-epileptic drugs (aeds) including carbamazepine (cbz), primidone (prm),phenobarbital and valproic acid (vpa). materials and methods this study consisted of ...

how to cite this article: najafi fard t, pourmohamadreza-tajrishi m, sajedi f, rezasoltani p, delavar kasmaei h. the effectiveness of attribution retraining on health enhancement of epileptic children. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):53-59. abstract objective epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease. evidence has indicated that epilepsy has an impact on mental and physical health of c...

background: diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (pnes) particularly in patients with epilepsy poses a challenge to physicians to care. this study is aimed at determining the frequency of depression and anxiety among iranian patients with pnes. materials and methods: sixty patients with pnes and one hundred age-and-sex matching healthy controls were enrolled in this study from januar...

This report illustrates the usefulness and safety of very early hemispherotomy in an infant with Ohtahara syndrome (OS) secondary to left parieto-occipital megalencephaly. It provides evidence that surgical intervention might provide promising results in selected cases, and that young age is not a contraindication for this type of surgery.

the occurrence of neonatal seizures may be the first and perhaps, the only clinical sign of a central nervous system (cns) disorder in the newborn infant. identifying the etiology for the neonatal seizures is/critical to prognosis and treatment. the most common etiology for neonatal seizures is hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. seizures may indicate the presence of a potentially treatable etiolo...

Anxiety and depression are very common in population and occur in a wide range of clinical states and is very common in epileptic patients. Many recent epidemiological studies have found a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in epileptic patients. These studies found that epileptic patients suffered from depression and anxiety than those without epilepsy. The prevalence of depression or a...

objective(s): epilepsy is a neurodevelopmental disorder which is strongly influenced by genetic and environmental factors. gestational stress has been shown to be an important factor for affecting seizure susceptibility. the present study was conducted to address whether gestational stress may affect pentylentetrazol (ptz)-induced epileptic behavior in rat offspring in a sex- and age- dependent...

Heart rate changes are common in epileptic and non-epileptic seizures. Previous studies have not adequately assessed the contribution of motor activity on these changes nor have evaluated them during prolonged monitoring. We retrospectively evaluated 143 seizures and auras from 76 patients admitted for video EEG monitoring. The events were classified according to the degree of ictal motor activ...

Background Reproductive dysfunction and endocrine disorders are common among men with complex partial seizures of temporal lobe origin. Diminished sexual desire and responsiveness along with decreased libido and less orgasm are frequently described in men with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). It appears that the reduced fertility in epileptic men is accompanied by erectile dysfunction and abnormal...