Epilepsy

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Epilepsy

General Information

NEWS:

Epilepsy Associated With Higher Risk For Learning Disabilities

Study Reveals Cause Of Loss Of Consciousness During Seizures

ARTICLES:

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: The Current State of Knowledge

Unrecognized and Untreated: Preventing and Treating Depression in Patients With Epilepsy

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A critical review of the different conceptual hypotheses framing human focal epilepsy. (Epileptic Disord)

[A family with autosomal dominant temporal lobe epilepsy accompanied by motor and sensory neuropathy] (Rinsho Shinkeigaku)

Abnormal behavior in children with temporal lobe epilepsy and ganglioglioma. (Epilepsy Behav)

Accidents in patients with epilepsy: types, circumstances, and complications: a European cohort study. (Epilepsia)

ADHD as a risk factor for incident unprovoked seizures and epilepsy in children. (Arch Gen Psychiatry)

Age at onset in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with a history of febrile seizures (NEUROLOGY)

Antiepileptic drug use increases rates of bone loss in older women: a prospective study. (Neurology)

Attention deficit disorder and epilepsy. (Pediatr Neurol. 2005)

Behavioral aspects of pediatric epilepsy syndromes. (Epilepsy Behav)

Benign Focal Seizures of Adolescence: A Prospective Study (Epilepsia)

Characteristics of postictal headache in patients with partial epilepsy. (Cephalalgia)

Chronic epilepsy and cognition. (Lancet Neurol)

Clinical significance of isolated hippocampal volume asymmetry in childhood epilepsy (NEUROLOGY)

Cognitive and psychological predictors of everyday memory in children with intractable epilepsy. (Epilepsy Behav)

Comorbidity headache and epilepsy in childhood. (Neuropediatrics)

Course and prognosis of childhood epilepsy: 5-year follow-up of the Dutch study of epilepsy in childhood. (Brain)

Daytime behavior and sleep disturbance in childhood epilepsy. (Epilepsy Behav)

Depression and altered quality of life in women with epilepsy of childbearing age. (Epilepsia)

Depression but not seizure frequency predicts quality of life in treatment-resistant epilepsy (NEUROLOGY)

Depression in epilepsy: ignoring clinical expression of neuronal network dysfunction? (Epilepsia)

Epilepsy, CNS viral injury and dynorphin. (Trends Pharmacol Sci)

Evidence that injury-induced changes in hippocampal neuronal calcium dynamics during epileptogenesis cause acquired epilepsy. (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A)

GABA and its receptors in epilepsy. (Adv Exp Med Biol)

Herpesviral DNA in brain tissue from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. (Acta Neurol Scand)

Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy. (Curr Treat Options Neurol)

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy: is there overlap? (Brain)

Learning disability: occurrence and long-term consequences in childhood-onset epilepsy. (Epilepsy Behav)

Life expectancy in people with newly diagnosed epilepsy (Brain)

Major malformations in infants exposed to antiepileptic drugs in utero, with emphasis on carbamazepine and valproic acid: a nation-wide, population-based register study. (Acta Paediatr)

Marijuana use and epilepsy (NEUROLOGY)

Morbidity in patients with epilepsy: type and complications: a European cohort study. (Epilepsia)

Mortality in Childhood-Onset Epilepsy (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med)

Neonate characteristics after maternal use of antidepressants in late pregnancy. (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med)

Neural damage due to temporal lobe epilepsy: Dual-nuclei (proton and phosphorus) magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. (Psychiatry Clin Neurosci)

Neuroprotection and epilepsy. (Adv Exp Med Biol)

Parietal lobe epilepsy: the semiology, yield of diagnostic workup, and surgical outcome. (Epilepsia)

Patients with extratemporal lobe epilepsy do not differ from healthy subjects with respect to subcortical volumes (Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry)

Perceived Impact of Childhood-onset Epilepsy on Quality of Life as an Adult (Epilepsia)

Photosensitivity and epilepsy: a follow-up study. (Dev Med Child Neurol)

Prevalence of epilepsy in adults with mental retardation and related disabilities in primary care. (Am J Ment Retard. 2005)

Psychogenic status epilepticus in children. (Epilepsy Behav)

Prevalence of epilepsy and health status of adults with epilepsy in Georgia and Tennessee: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2002. (Epilepsy Behav)

Primary generalized epilepsy during infancy and early childhood. (J Child Neurol)

Recognition of the various expressions of anxiety, psychosis, and aggression in epilepsy. (Epilepsia)

Recurrent nightmares and disorders of arousal in temporal lobe epilepsy. (Brain Res Bull)

Recurrent seizures do not cause hippocampal damage. (J Neurol)

Relationships between epilepsy-related factors and memory impairment (Acta Neurologica Scandinavica)

Role of the GABA transporter in epilepsy. (Adv Exp Med Biol)

Seizures as the presenting symptom of brain tumours in children. (Seizure)

Severity of depressive symptoms, hippocampal sclerosis, auditory memory, and side of seizure focus in temporal lobe epilepsy. (Epilepsy Behav)

Single Unprovoked Seizures. (Curr Treat Options Neurol)

The AED (Antiepileptic Drug) Pregnancy Registry (Arch Neurol)

The coexistence of idiopathic generalized epilepsy and partial epilepsy. (Epilepsia)

The consequences of uncontrolled epilepsy. (CNS Spectr)

The Epidemiology of the Comorbidity of Epilepsy in the General Population (Epilepsia)

The mortality of epilepsy revisited. (Epileptic Disord)

The natural history of epilepsy: an epidemiological view. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry)

The Relative Impact of Anxiety, Depression, and Clinical Seizure Features on Health-related Quality of Life in Epilepsy (Epilepsia)

The relative influence of epileptic EEG discharges, short nonconvulsive seizures, and type of epilepsy on cognitive function. (Epilepsia)

Which factors may play a pivotal role on determining the type of psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents with epilepsy? (Epilepsy Behav)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH-Epilepsy

NIH-Epilepsy Resources

NIH-Medical Encyclopedia Epilepsy

NIH-Medical Encyclopedia Epilepsy - resources

NIH-NCBI Genes and Disease Epilespy

NIH-NINDS Epilepsy Information Page

NIH-Seizures

NIH-Seizures and Epilepsy

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