objective neuropsychological impairment is an important co-morbidity of chronic epilepsy. the aim of this study was to determine the state of the cognitive and motor development of patients with refractory epilepsy. materials & methods  we studied 150 consecutive children with epilepsy who were referred to mofid children hospital, a third level public referral university hospital in tehran, ira...

objective several investigations have demonstrated that rosa damascena has an inhibitory effect on the hypothalamus and on pituitary system reactivity in the rat; it has also been shown that the essential oil of rosa damascena has significant antiepileptic effects on pentylentetrazole (ptz) induced seizures in rats. we aimed at assessing the effects of the essential oil of rosa damascena when u...

how to cite this article: fayyazi a, karimzadeh p, torabian s, damadi s, khaje a. comparison of intravenous midazolam drip with intermittent intravenous diazepam in the treatment of refractory serial seizures in children. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 15-19.   objective serial seizures occur commonly in inpatient epileptic children. this type ofseizure due to its characteristics has a signifi...

abstract- the syndrome of diabetes mellitus, sensorineural deafness and megaloblastic anemia dose not result from thiamine deficiency. the previous reported patients had no sign of beriberi, had normal nutrition, and had no evidence of malabsorption. the features of this syndrome with apparent inheritance of autosomal recessive trait may define this puzzling syndrome as a true thiamine dependen...

background: tramadol, an analgesic drug abused by opioid addicts, is also abused accidentally or for suicidal purposes. tramadol poisoning can induce cns depression, seizures, coma, and ultimately death. case: in this report, a 30-year-old male was admitted to the emergency department due to suicidal attempt with ingestion of 14000 mg (140 tablet 100 mg) of tramadol. he had history of suicidal ...

how to cite this article: mollamohammadi m, tonekaboni sh, pirzadeh z, vahedian m . pregabalin in childhood epilepsy: a clinical trialiran j child neurol. 2014 autumn;8(4): 62-65. abstract objective the prevalence of active epilepsy is about 0.5–1%, and approximately 70% of patients are cured with first anti-epileptic drugs and the remaining patients need multiple drugs. pregabalin as an add-on...