Epilepsy

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Epilepsy

General Information

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ARTICLES:

Epilepsy

NGC - Diagnosis and management of epilepsies in children and young people. (2005)

NGC - The diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care. (2004)

NGC - (1) Diagnosis and management of epilepsy in adults. A national clinical guideline. (2) Diagnosis and management of epilepsy in adults. Update to printed guideline.

NICE - The epilepsies: the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care (2004)

SIGN - Diagnosis and management of epilepsies in children and young people (2005)

SIGN - Diagnosis and management of epilepsy in adults (2004)

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

An analysis of lifetime fractures in women with epilepsy. (Acta Neurol Scand. 2005)

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, methylphenidate, and epilepsy. (Arch Dis Child. 2005)

Behaviour problems in children and adolescents with seizure disorder: associations and risk factors (Seizure 2005)

Brain inflammation in epilepsy: experimental and clinical evidence. (Epilepsia. 2005)

Cause Specific MortalityCause-Specific Mortality in Epilepsy (Epilepsia 2005)

Cognitive decline in severe intractable epilepsy. (Epilepsia. 2005)

Development of mental health dysfunction in childhood epilepsy. (Brain Dev. 2005)

Educational underachievement in children with epilepsy: a model to predict the effects of epilepsy on educational achievement. (J Child Neurol. 2005)

Epilepsy and common comorbidities: improving the outpatient epilepsy encounter (Epileptic Disorders 2005)

Febrile seizures and risk of schizophrenia. (Schizophr Res. 2005)

Frontal lobe epilepsy (Epileptic Disorders 2004)

Gender Differences in Epilepsy (Epilepsia 2005)

Identifying seizure clusters in patients with epilepsy (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Impact of epilepsy in adolescence: A UK controlled study. (Epilepsy Behav. 2005)

Incidence of epilepsy and predictive factors of epileptic and non-epileptic seizures. (Seizure. 2005)

Intellectual Disability and Psychotic Disorders of Adult Epilepsy (Epilepsia 2005)

Mechanisms, genetics, and pathogenesis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. (Curr Opin Neurol. 2005)

Mood Disorders and Their Treatment in Patients With Epilepsy (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 2005)

Mortality of Epilepsy in Developed Countries: A Review (Epilepsia 2005)

[Neurodevelopmental disorders and epilepsy.] (Rev Neurol. 2005)

Pediatric epilepsy -- an Indian perspective. (Indian J Pediatr. 2005)

Photosensitivity and Epilepsy (J Child Neurol. 2005)

Prior hospitalization for epilepsy, diabetes, and stroke and subsequent glioma and meningioma risk. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005)

Prognostic factors of status epilepticus in children. (Yonsei Med J. 2005)

Progression in temporal lobe epilepsy (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Psychological distress, comorbidities, and health behaviors among U.S. adults with seizures: results from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey. (Epilepsia. 2005)

Psychopathology in Children with Epilepsy: A Meta-Analysis (Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2005)

Quantitative post-mortem study of the hippocampus in chronic epilepsy: seizures do not inevitably cause neuronal loss. (Brain. 2005)

Refractory Status Epilepticus (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Risk for schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like psychosis among patients with epilepsy: population based cohort study. (BMJ. 2005)

Seizure Aggravation in Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies (Epilepsia 2005)

Seizure clustering: risks and outcomes. (Epilepsia. 2005)

Sleep architecture in children with idiopathic generalized epilepsy. (Epilepsia. 2005)

Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Is Death by Seizures a Cardiac Disease? (American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology 2005)

The impact of epilepsy on health status among younger and older adults. (Epilepsia. 2005)

The epidemiology of epilepsy in Europe - a systematic review. (Eur J Neurol. 2005)

The High Atherosclerotic Risk Among Epileptics: the Atheroprotective Role of Multivitamins. (J Pharmacol Sci. 2005)

[The knowledge, clinical control and attitudes of Primary Care physicians when dealing with epileptic patients. Preliminary findings.] (Rev Neurol. 2005)

The neurobiology of temporal lobe epilepsy: too much information, not enough knowledge. (C R Biol. 2005)

The temporopolar cortex plays a pivotal role in temporal lobe seizures. (Brain. 2005)

Three to four years after diagnosis: cognition and behaviour in children with 'epilepsy only'. A prospective, controlled study. (Brain. 2005)

Vitamins for epilepsy (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library 2005)

Which seizure-precipitating factors do patients with epilepsy most frequently report? (Epilepsy Behav. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH - Epilepsy

NIH - Epilepsy Research Web

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Epilepsy

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Treatment of epilepsy

NIH - NINDS Epilepsy Information Page

NIH - Seizures

NIH - Seizures and Epilepsy: Hope Through Research

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