how to cite this article: asadi-pooya aa, emami m. effects of antiepileptic drugs on electroencephalographic findings inpatients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy. iranian journal of child neurology 2011;5(4):33-36. objective several antiepileptic drugs (aeds) such as phenobarbital (pb), carbamazepine (cbz), and valproate (vpa) may suppress interictal epileptiform activity. we investigated t...

background: epilepsy is defined as recurrent unprovoked febrile  seizures, which  cause  disability in patients.  this study  aims  to  assess  the  health-related  quality-of-life (qol) in epileptic patients in fars province, southern  iran. methods: one-hundred epileptic  patients, above 18 years, referred to shiraz university of medical sciences affiliated clinics, were included. the qol of ...

how to cite this article: asadi-pooya aa, emami m. is interictal eeg correlated with the seizure type in idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsies? iran j child neurol 2012;6(2): 25-28.   objective we investigated the correlation between different interictal eeg abnormalities observed in patients with idiopathic (genetic) generalized epilepsies (iges) and their seizure types. material & metho...

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The idiopathic generalized epilepsies encompass a class of epileptic seizure types that exhibit a polygenic and heritable etiology. Advances in molecular biology and genetics have implicated defects in certain types of voltage-gated calcium channels and their ancillary subunits as important players in this form of epilepsy. Both T-type and P/Q-type channels appear to mediate important contribut...

Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies: Clinical Syndromes and Pathogenesis. Most kinds of idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE) such as juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), absence epilepsy in infancy (CAE), myoclonic absence epilepsy (MAE), juvenile absence epilepsy

PURPOSE To review the clinical, electrographic, radiological, and pathological findings of patients with coexistent idiopathic generalized and partial epilepsy syndromes. METHODS We performed a medical record review and a phone interview with all patients hospitalized to the Cleveland Clinic epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) between 1992 and 2002 who fulfilled clinical and EEG criteria of coexis...

We evaluated the P300 components of event-related potentials (ERP) in 64 cryptogenic partial epilepsy (CPE) patients, and 52 idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) patients as well as in their age-matched control groups. The P200, N200 and P300 latencies recorded from Cz were significantly longer in CPE patients compared with those of their control group (P = 0.0371, P = 0.0092 and P = 0.0405, r...

PURPOSE Studies on seizures only with an alteration of consciousness were limited mainly to generalized epilepsy. This seizure type has been described rarely in focal epilepsy. We aimed to analyze the semiologic features of this seizure type in focal and generalized epilepsies in a blinded design. METHODS A total of 338 seizure videos in 100 patients were included exclusively by semiologic cr...