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Four types of traditional Chinese medicine inducing epileptic seizures
05 April 2012
Abstract: Traditional Chinese medicine has been used to treat disease in China for more than five thousand years. Over the last few decades it has been used increasingly in other countries as well. As...
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Mengjiao Wu,
Min Fang,
Yida Hu,
Xuefeng Wang
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311-315
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Epilepsy in mitochondrial disorders
29 March 2012
Abstract: Objectives: Information about epilepsy in mitochondrial disorders is scarce although a number or syndromic and non-syndromic mitochondrial disorders frequently manifest with focal or general...
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Josef Finsterer,
Sinda Zarrouk Mahjoub
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316-321
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Clinical epidemiology of posttraumatic epilepsy in a group of Chinese patients
19 March 2012
Abstract: Objective: To explore the incidence, types of onset, and risk factors of posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE). Methods: This is a retrospective follow-up study of patients discharged from the Affili...
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Yongqing Zhao,
Huili Wu,
Xueling Wang,
Jianguo Li,
Sai Zhang
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322-326
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Cognitive outcome after stereotactic amygdalohippocampectomy
26 March 2012
Abstract: Purpose: We sought to determine the neuropsychological outcome after stereotactic radiofrequency amygdalohippocampectomy performed for intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Methods: The...
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Zdeněk Vojtěch,
Lenka Krámská,
Hana Malíková,
Kateřina Seltenreichová,
Tomáš Procházka,
Miroslav Kalina,
Roman Liščák
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327-333
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Self-efficacy for seizure management and youth depressive symptoms: Caregiver and youth perspectives
16 March 2012
Abstract: The aims of this study were to (1) compare caregiver and youth measures of self-efficacy for seizure management (SESM), as well as report of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in yout...
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Janelle L. Wagner,
Gigi Smith,
Pamela Ferguson
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334-339
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Role of folic acid depletion on homocysteine serum level in children and adolescents with epilepsy and different MTHFR C677T genotypes
19 March 2012
Abstract: Homocysteine (Hcy) is a sulfur-containing amino acid involved in methionine metabolism. An elevated total plasma Hcy concentration (tHcy) is a risk factor for vascular disease. The present s...
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Giangennaro Coppola,
Diego Ingrosso,
Francesca Felicia Operto,
Giuseppe Signoriello,
Francamaria Lattanzio,
Eugenia Barone,
Sabino Matera,
Alberto Verrotti
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340-343
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Cannabidiol exerts anti-convulsant effects in animal models of temporal lobe and partial seizures
20 April 2012
Abstract: Cannabis sativa has been associated with contradictory effects upon seizure states despite its medicinal use by numerous people with epilepsy. We have recently shown that the phytocannabinoi...
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Nicholas A. Jones,
Sarah E. Glyn,
Satoshi Akiyama,
Thomas D.M. Hill,
Andrew J. Hill,
Samantha E. Weston,
Matthew D.A. Burnett,
Yuki Yamasaki,
Gary J. Stephens,
Benjamin J. Whalley,
Claire M. Williams
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344-352
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Neuropsychological outcome following minimal access subtemporal selective amygdalohippocampectomy
29 March 2012
Abstract: Purpose: The present study provides a detailed account of neurocognitive outcome following minimal access subtemporal selective amygdalohippocampectomy (SAH) and establishes rates of neuroco...
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Stacy W. Hill,
Shawn D. Gale,
Caleb Pearson,
Kris Smith
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353-360
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An audit of the presurgical evaluation and patient selection for extratemporal resective epilepsy surgery in a resource-poor country
17 April 2012
Abstract: Purpose: The selection of ideal candidates for extratemporal resective epilepsy surgery is a challenge in resource-poor countries because of the limited presurgical diagnostic facilities and...
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Gopal Krishna Dash,
Ashalatha Radhakrishnan,
Chandrasekharan Kesavadas,
Mathew Abraham,
P. Sankara Sarma,
Kurupath Radhakrishnan
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361-366
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Evaluation of clinical aspects and quality of life as risk factors for depression in patients with epilepsy
03 April 2012
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate clinical aspects and quality of life (QOL) as risk factors for depression in patients with epilepsy. One hundred and forty outpatients with a dia...
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Ting Zhao,
Ming-yue Sun,
Pei-min Yu,
Guo-xing Zhu,
Xing-hua Tang,
Yun-bo Shi,
Zhen Hong
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367-370
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Western driving regulations for unprovoked first seizures and epilepsy
05 April 2012
Abstract: Purpose: To review the legislation for non-commercial driving licenses in the Western world for unprovoked first seizures (UFS) and recurrence of established epilepsy, and to examine availab...
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Gavin P. Winston,
Stephan R. Jaiser
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371-376
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Malformations of cortical development and epilepsy in adult patients
18 April 2012
Abstract: Objective: To describe clinical features of epilepsy secondary to Malformation of Cortical Development (MCD) in a series of adult patients. Materials and methods: We searched our database fo...
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C.E. Papayannis,
D. Consalvo,
M.A. Kauffman,
G. Seifer,
S. Oddo,
L. D’Alessio,
P. Saidon,
S. Kochen
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377-384
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Predictors of positive and negative attitudes toward their condition in Turkish individuals with epilepsy
06 April 2012
Abstract: The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to explore the attitudes of individuals with epilepsy (IWE) toward their condition via self-reported changes in the feelings/thoughts about havi...
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N. Aydemir,
A. Jacoby,
Ç. Özkara
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385-390
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Parasympathetic alteration during sub-clinical seizures
12 April 2012
Abstract: Introduction: Autonomic instability is considered a contributing factor in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The aim of this pilot study was to measure parasympathetic activity in...
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Ruth Brotherstone,
Ailsa McLellan
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391-398
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A comparison of propofol and amobarbital for use in the Wada test
16 March 2012
Abstract: 129 Wada procedures were reviewed to examine the suitability of propofol (n=54) as a replacement to amobarbital (n=75) for use as an anaesthetic in the Wada test. Suitability was considered ...
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James A. Magee,
Niall P. Pender,
Sharon Abrahams,
John Thornton,
Norman Delanty,
Gillian M. Fortune
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399-401
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Multiple causes of apnea in 1p36 deletion syndrome include seizures
19 March 2012
Abstract: Introduction: Apneic episodes have not previously been described in children with 1p36 deletion syndrome with seizures. Having encountered one such patient, we reviewed our experience of bre...
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Gorande Kanabar,
Stewart Boyd,
Anna Schugal,
Sanjay Bhate
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402-406
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Levetiracetam induced angioedema in a patient with previous anticonvulsant hypersensitivity reaction to phenytoin and lamotrigine
23 April 2012
Abstract: Allergic reactions to antiepileptic drugs in the form of skin rash are not uncommon but angioedema, an acute life threatening reaction is rare. Angioedema has been reported with the use of o...
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Amal Alkhotani,
Richard S. McLachlan
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407-408
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Early-onset versus typical childhood absence epilepsy: Are they all the same thing?
29 March 2012
We read with interest the article by Asadi-Pooya et al. who reported a cross-sectional retrospective study comparing the demographic and electroclinical data of 30 patients with newly diagnosed typica...
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Alberto Verrotti,
Sergio Agostinelli,
Pasquale Striano
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409
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Erratum to “The prognostic role of electrocorticography in tailored temporal lobe surgery” [Seizure 20 (2011) 564–569]
13 April 2012
The publisher regrets that the author names were not published in the correct format as per the style of the journal. The correct author listing appears above.The publisher would like to apologise for...
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Daniel San-juan,
Claudia Alfaro Tapia,
Maricarmen Fernández González-Aragón,
Adriana Martínez Mayorga,
Richard J. Staba,
Mario Alonso-Vanegas
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410
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