Imaging small animal models of epileptogenesis [2007] - 496KB
by B Jupp, J Williams, D Binns, R Hicks, T O’Brien
In-vivo neuroimaging of small animal models of epilepsy offers the ability to serially examine the progressive structural and functional changes that occur during the development of chronic epilepsy (...

A possible role of cell cycle re-entry in epileptogenesis as observed in the abnormal plasticity of EL mice brain [2007] - 338KB
by YL Murashima, J Suzuki, M Yoshii
We demonstrated that there was DNA fragmentation in the hippocampus of epileptic mutant EL mice, where neuronal cell loss was not found even after frequent seizures during development. The level of ne...

Prevalence of epilepsy in Phu Linh - Soc Son – Hanoi, a rural region in North Vietnam [2007] - 106KB
by QC Le, VH Nguyen, P Jallon
The prevalence of epilepsy is usually quoted at about 5 per thousand populations. The epidemiological data of epilepsy is not well studied in Vietnam. In 2003, we conducted a prevalence study of epile...

Premature mortality in people with epilepsy in rural China [2007] - 106KB
by D Ding, WZ Wang, JZ Wu, GY Ma, XY Dai, B Yang, TP Wang, CL Yuan, Z Hong, HM de Boer, L Prilipko, JW Sander
Mortality in epilepsy is assessed by means of particular parameters: the mortality rate, the proportional mortality rate (PMR), and the standardized mortality ratio (SMR). However, the mortality rate ...

Application of a newly proposed diagnostic scheme of seizure and epilepsy classification 2001 to adult patients [2007] - 243KB
by M Kinoshita, A Ikeda, R Takahashi
The major concepts of a newly proposed diagnostic scheme of seizure and epilepsy classification by International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) in 2001 (the 2001 scheme) were to provide a standardized...

Call centre workers: An emerging class of people with epilepsy? [2007] - 99KB
by A Garg
The business process outsourcing industry in India employs more than 350,000 workers. Call centres, run by these companies, operate round the clock. This creates work schedules that involve working ov...

Mesial frontal lobe epilepsy as a clinical entity with characteristic symptom complexes: The relevance of ictal body turning along three axis [2007] - 129KB
by H Leung, K Schindler, H Clusmann, CG Bien, A PÖPel, J Schramm, P Kwan, LKS Wong, CE Elger
Semiology distinguishing mesial-frontal seizures from lateral-frontal and orbitofrontal seizures helps with presurgical evaluation of refractory epilepsy.1 The clinical utility of mesial-frontal semio...

Variable clinical features in Japanese families with autosomal dominant lateral temporal lobe epilepsy (ADLTLE) [2007] - 110KB
by A Ikeda, J Kawamata, R Matsumoto, S Takaya, K Usui, H Fukuyama, R Takahashi
Autosomal dominant lateral temporal lobe epilepsy (ADLTLE) is one of the hereditary partial epilepsies caused by abnormality of a gene of leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1(LGI-1) or epitempin. There w...

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in dysplastic lesions [2007] - 103KB
by T Otsubo, S Imamura, K Nakamura, K Arita, T Fujimoto, H Kawano, K Iida, H Shirotsu
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of epilepsy patients often indicates lesions such as cortical dysplasia. Although closer examination is necessary, the conventional evaluations alone may pose certain ...

The relationship between MRI findings and clinical features in patients with hypothalamic hamartoma [2007] - 144KB
by Y Mogami, K Ogawa, Y Toribe, K Yanagihara, T Okinaga, K Kagitani-Shimono, K Imai, Y Suzuki
Hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) is a non-neoplastic lesion characterized by peculiar symptoms, including precocious puberty, mental retardation, behavioral problems, and epilepsy. However, little is kno...