Epilepsy Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Epilepsy, including details on symptoms, causes, treatment, drugs, information.

Volume 1 (2004), Issue 4 (November)

1. Epilepsia partialis continua of the abdominal muscles: a detailed electrophysiological study of a case.
   Mov Disord, 19(11): 1375-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Serial MRI after experimental febrile seizures: altered T2 signal without neuronal death.
   Ann Neurol, 56(5): 709-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. A GABAA receptor mutation linked to human epilepsy (gamma2R43Q) impairs cell surface expression of alphabetagamma receptors.
   J Biol Chem, 279(45): 47034-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Neurologic complications associated with influenza A in children during the 2003-2004 influenza season in Houston, Texas.
   Pediatrics, 114(5): e626-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Cardiac asystole during a temporal lobe seizure.
   Seizure, 13(8): 595-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Effects of levetiracetam on spike and wave discharges in WAG/Rij rats.
   Seizure, 13(8): 591-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Vagus nerve stimulation therapy: 5-year or greater outcome at a university-based epilepsy center.
   Seizure, 13(8): 587-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Spinal muscular atrophy and progressive myoclonic epilepsy: one case report and characteristics of the epileptic syndrome.
   Seizure, 13(8): 582-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. The pharmacokinetic inter-relationship of tiagabine in blood, cerebrospinal fluid and brain extracellular fluid (frontal cortex and hippocampus).
   Seizure, 13(8): 574-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. The contribution of the EEG technologists in the diagnosis of Panayiotopoulos syndrome (susceptibility to early onset benign childhood autonomic seizures).
    Seizure, 13(8): 565-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. The Department of Health Action Plan "Improving Services for People with Epilepsy": a significant advance or only a first step?
    Seizure, 13(8): 553-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Full neurologic recovery after fulminant thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura with status epilepticus.
    Seizure, 13(8): 549-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Antiepileptic drug treatment in seizure-free mesial temporal lobe epilepsy patients with hippocampal sclerosis following selective amygdalohippocampectomy.
    Seizure, 13(8): 534-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Two-year outcome audit in an adult learning disability population with refractory epilepsy.
    Seizure, 13(8): 529-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. A anticonvulsive fraction from Scaptocosa raptoria (Araneae: Lycosidae) spider venom.
    Neurosci Lett, 371(2): 171-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Ictal functional TCD for the lateralization of the seizure onset zone--a report of two cases.
    Epilepsy Res, 62(1): 89-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Predictors of epilepsy surgery outcome: a meta-analysis.
    Epilepsy Res, 62(1): 75-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Effect of pentylenetetrazol-induced epileptic seizure on thiol redox state in the mouse cerebral cortex.
    Epilepsy Res, 62(1): 65-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Refractory atypical absence seizures in rat: a two hit model.
    Epilepsy Res, 62(1): 53-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. The ketogenic diet does not alter brain expression of orexigenic neuropeptides.
    Epilepsy Res, 62(1): 35-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. c-Fos immunohistochemical mapping of the audiogenic seizure network and tonotopic neuronal hyperexcitability in the inferior colliculus of the Frings mouse.
    Epilepsy Res, 62(1): 13-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Carbamazepine pharmacokinetics are not affected by zonisamide: in vitro mechanistic study and in vivo clinical study in epileptic patients.
    Epilepsy Res, 62(1): 1-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Leptomeningeal angiomatosis with infantile spasms.
    Pediatr Neurol, 31(5): 353-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Topiramate slow dose titration: improved efficacy and tolerability.
    Pediatr Neurol, 31(5): 349-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Do serum sodium levels predict febrile seizure recurrence within 24 hours?
    Pediatr Neurol, 31(5): 342-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease presenting as refractory nonconvulsive status epilepticus.
    J Intensive Care Med, 19(6): 345-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. A randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial of melatonin add-on therapy in epileptic children on valproate monotherapy: effect on glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase enzymes.
    Br J Clin Pharmacol, 58(5): 542-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Inherited myoclonus-dystonia and epilepsy: further evidence of an association?
    Mov Disord, 19(12): 1456-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. A novel epilepsy mutation in the sodium channel SCN1A identifies a cytoplasmic domain for beta subunit interaction.
    J Neurosci, 24(44): 10022-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Subregional changes in discharge rate, pattern, and drug sensitivity of putative GABAergic nigral neurons in the kindling model of epilepsy.
    Eur J Neurosci, 20(9): 2377-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Homocysteine levels in patients classified according to Lesch's typology.
    Alcohol Alcohol, 39(6): 493-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Comparison of standard and optimized voxel-based morphometry for analysis of brain changes associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Neuroimage, 23(3): 860-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Soman-induced convulsions in rats terminated with pharmacological agents after 45 min: neuropathology and cognitive performance.
    Neurotoxicology, 26(1): 39-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Caffeine-induced epileptiform field potentials in rat hippocampal slices: a pharmacological characterization.
    Neuropharmacology, 47(6): 926-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Kynurenine administered together with probenecid markedly inhibits pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures. An electrophysiological and behavioural study.
    Neuropharmacology, 47(6): 916-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Cavernous haemangiomas, epilepsy and treatment strategies.
    Acta Neurol Scand, 110(6): 393-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Focally injected adenosine prevents seizures in the rat.
    Exp Neurol, 190(2): 544-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Learning and memory impairment in rats with chronic atypical absence seizures.
    Exp Neurol, 190(2): 328-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Repeated 4-aminopyridine seizures reduce parvalbumin content in the medial mammillary nucleus of the rat brain.
    Brain Res Mol Brain Res, 131(1): 110-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Serum amylase, pancreatic amylase and lipase concentrations in epileptic children treated with carbamazepine monotherapy.
    Clin Chim Acta, 350(1): 175-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Hashimoto's encephalopathy: an unusual cause of seizures in the intensive care unit.
    Pediatr Crit Care Med, 5(6): 578-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. A pilot study on lidocaine tape therapy for convulsions with mild gastroenteritis.
    Brain Dev, 26(8): 525-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. EEG spectral analysis in children with febrile delirium.
    Brain Dev, 26(8): 513-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Lithium inhibits the modulatory effects of morphine on susceptibility to pentylenetetrazole-induced clonic seizure in mice: involvement of a nitric oxide pathway.
    Brain Res, 1029(1): 48-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Elevated voltage-gated Ca2+ channel immunoreactivities in the hippocampus of seizure-prone gerbil.
    Brain Res, 1029(2): 168-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. The United Kingdom Infantile Spasms Study comparing vigabatrin with prednisolone or tetracosactide at 14 days: a multicentre, randomised controlled trial.
    Lancet, 364(9447): 1773-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Neurotrophin receptor immunoreactivity in the hippocampus of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol, 30(6): 651-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Fusion of MRI and CT with subdural grid electrodes.
    Zentralbl Neurochir, 65(4): 174-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Severe lactic acidosis following alcohol related generalised seizures.
    Anaesthesia, 59(12): 1228-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. A genetic switch for epilepsy in adult mice.
    J Neurosci, 24(46): 10568-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Stimulus and potassium-induced epileptiform activity in the human dentate gyrus from patients with and without hippocampal sclerosis.
    J Neurosci, 24(46): 10416-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Predictive value of death certification in the case ascertainment of epilepsy.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 75(12): 1756-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Role of histaminergic neurons in development of epileptic seizures in EL mice.
    Brain Res Mol Brain Res, 132(1): 13-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Somatostatin receptors differentially affect spontaneous epileptiform activity in mouse hippocampal slices.
    Eur J Neurosci, 20(10): 2711-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Motor conversion symptoms and pseudoseizures: a comparison of clinical characteristics.
    Psychosomatics, 45(6): 492-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. EEG dipole source localisation of interictal spikes acquired during routine clinical video-EEG monitoring.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 115(12): 2738-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Seizure incidence during single- and paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in individuals with epilepsy.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 115(12): 2728-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Quantitative visualization of ictal subdural EEG changes in children with neocortical focal seizures.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 115(12): 2718-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Necrosis of hippocampus and piriform lobe: clinical and neuropathological findings in two Italian cats.
    J Feline Med Surg, 6(6): 377-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Contributions of mossy fiber and CA1 pyramidal cell sprouting to dentate granule cell hyperexcitability in kainic acid-treated hippocampal slice cultures.
    J Neurophysiol, 92(6): 3582-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Current drug treatment of epilepsy in adults.
    Lancet Neurol, 3(12): 729-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Computational models of epileptiform activity in single neurons.
    Biosystems, 78(1): 1-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Anticonvulsant action of GBR-12909 and citalopram against acute experimentally induced limbic seizures.
    Neuropharmacology, 47(7): 1053-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Effects of distinct classes of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists on seizures, axonal sprouting and neuronal loss in vitro: suppression by NR2B-selective antagonists.
    Neuropharmacology, 47(7): 1008-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. A note on gelastic epilepsy.
    Eur Neurol, 52(3): 172-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Aquaporin-4 is increased in the sclerotic hippocampus in human temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Acta Neuropathol (Berl), 108(6): 493-502. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Perivascular clustering in temporal lobe epilepsy: oligodendroglial cells of unknown function.
    Acta Neuropathol (Berl), 108(6): 471-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Epilepsy surgery with intraoperative MRI at 1.5 T.
    Neurosurg Clin N Am, 16(1): 173-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Dysfunction of the brain calcium channel CaV2.1 in absence epilepsy and episodic ataxia.
    Brain, 127: 2682-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Cefoselis, a beta-lactam antibiotic, easily penetrates the blood-brain barrier and causes seizure independently by glutamate release.
    J Neural Transm, 111(12): 1523-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Interactions between riluzole and conventional antiepileptic drugs -- a comparison of results obtained in the subthreshold method and isobolographic analysis.
    J Neural Transm, 111(12): 1511-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Electroconvulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in children and adolescents: a review and report of two cases of epilepsia partialis continua.
    Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am, 14(1): 193-210, viii-ix. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Neurofeedback treatment of epilepsy.
    Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am, 14(1): 163-76, viii. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Ketogenic diet fed rats have low levels of S100B in cerebrospinal fluid.
    Neurosci Res, 50(4): 375-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Galanin and galanin receptors in epilepsy.
    Neuropeptides, 38(6): 331-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Anticonvulsant effects of carbenoxolone in genetically epilepsy prone rats (GEPRs).
    Neuropharmacology, 47(8): 1205-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Suppression of excitatory synaptic transmission can facilitate low-calcium epileptiform activity in the hippocampus in vivo.
    Brain Res, 1030(1): 57-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. In vivo 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy, T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted MRI during lithium-pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus in the rat.
    Brain Res, 1030(1): 11-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. Maternal water intoxication as a cause of neonatal seizures.
    J Paediatr Child Health, 40(12): 709-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. Prevalence of epilepsy in adults with mental retardation and related disabilities in primary care.
    Am J Ment Retard, 110(1): 48-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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