Epilepsy

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Epilepsy

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

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NICE guidance on epilepsy recommends specialist diagnosis

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JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A comparison of adult onset and "classical" idiopathic generalised epilepsy (Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry)

Advances in computer-assisted single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for epilepsy surgery in children. (Acta Paediatr Suppl)

Are "generalized" seizures truly generalized? Evidence of localized mesial frontal and frontopolar discharges in absence. (Epilepsia)

Bilateral hippocampal volume predicts verbal memory function in temporal lobe epilepsy. (Epilepsy Behav)

Bilateral occipital lobe hyperperfusion demonstrated by single photon emission computed tomography during seizure-related cortical blindness. (J Neuroophthalmol)

Cerebellar atrophy in temporal lobe epilepsy affects procedural memory. (Neurology)

Chronic temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with severely declined dentate neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus. (Neurobiol Dis)

Chronic temporal lobe epilepsy: spatial extent and degree of metabolic dysfunction studied with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). (Epilepsy Res)

Diffusion tensor imaging of partial intractable epilepsy. (Eur Radiol)

EKG abnormalities in children and adolescents with symptomatic temporal lobe epilepsy (NEUROLOGY)

Epilepsy. (Curr Opin Neurol)

Epilepsy and destructive brain insults in early life: a topographical classification on the basis of MRI findings (Seizure )

Evolution of MRI changes and development of bilateral hippocampal sclerosis during long lasting generalised status epilepticus. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry)

Frontal lobe epilepsy in childhood. (Pediatr Neurol)

Head CT Findings in Patients with New-onset Seizure with and without Associated Head Trauma (Academic Emergency Medicine)

Ictal single-photon emission computed tomography imaging in extra temporal lobe epilepsy using statistical parametric mapping. (J Neuroimaging)

Ictal SPECT analysis in epilepsy: subtraction and statistical parametric mapping techniques. (Neurology)

Identification of the Epileptogenic Lobe in Neocortical Epilepsy with Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging. (Epilepsia)

[Idiopathic generalised epilepsy. The value of semiology and EEG scanning in its classification.] (Rev Neurol)

Imaging idiopathic generalized epilepsy. (Clin EEG Neurosci)

Interrater agreement of the diagnosis and classification of a first seizure in childhood. The Dutch Study of Epilepsy in Childhood (Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry)

Magnetic resonance imaging detection of mesial temporal sclerosis in children. (Pediatr Neurol)

MRI-based high-dimensional hippocampal mapping in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. (Brain)

Neuroimaging and presurgical evaluation of symptomatic epilepsies. (Psychiatry Clin Neurosci)

Neuroimaging of the complications of epilepsy surgery. (J Neuroimaging)

Patients with extratemporal lobe epilepsy do not differ from healthy subjects with respect to subcortical volumes. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry)

Patients with temporoparietal ictal symptoms and inferomesial EEG do not benefit from anterior temporal resection. (Epilepsia)

Positive and Negative Network Correlations in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (Cerebral Cortex)

Status epilepticus after the initial diagnosis of epilepsy in children (NEUROLOGY)

Structural abnormalities remote from the seizure focus: A study using T2 relaxometry at 3 T. (Neurology)

"Tectonic" hippocampal malformations in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. (Epilepsy Res)

The diagnosis of epileptic and non-epileptic seizures (Epilepsy Research)

The role of neuroimaging in the investigation of patients with single seizures, febrile seizures, or refractory partial seizures (Med Sci Monit)

[The role of the EEG in epilepsy management] (Rev Neurol (Paris).)

Transient cortical abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging after status epilepticus: case report. (Surg Neurol)

Validation of ictal single photon emission computed tomography with depth encephalography and epilepsy surgery. (Neurosurg Rev)

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