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 2 (2005), Issue 2 (February)

1. A simple method to monitor plasma concentrations of oxcarbazepine, carbamazepine, their main metabolites and lamotrigine in epileptic patients.
   Pharmacol Res, 51(4): 297-302. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Up-regulation of peripherin is associated with alterations in synaptic plasticity in CA1 and CA3 regions of hippocampus.
   Neurobiol Dis, 18(2): 409-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Role of nitric oxide in cerebral blood flow changes during kainate seizures in mice: genetic and pharmacological approaches.
   Neurobiol Dis, 18(2): 270-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Real-time display of artifact-free electroencephalography during functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in an animal model of epilepsy.
   Magn Reson Med, 53(2): 456-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Sequential 123I-iododexetimide scans in temporal lobe epilepsy: comparison with neuroimaging scans (MR imaging and 18F-FDG PET imaging).
   Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 32(2): 180-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. AAV-mediated hippocampal expression of short and long Homer 1 proteins differentially affect cognition and seizure activity in adult rats.
   Mol Cell Neurosci, 28(2): 347-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Coeliac disease, unilateral occipital calcifications, and drug-resistant epilepsy: successful lesionectomy.
   Acta Neurol Scand, 111(3): 202-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Interaction between lamotrigine and felbamate in the maximal electroshock-induced seizures in mice: an isobolographic analysis.
   Eur Neuropsychopharmacol, 15(2): 133-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Neuropeptide Y suppresses absence seizures in a genetic rat model.
   Brain Res, 1033(2): 151-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Clinical experience of levetiracetam monotherapy for adults with epilepsy: 1-year follow-up study.
    Seizure, 14(2): 139-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Genital and sexual manifestations in drug-resistant partial epilepsy.
    Seizure, 14(2): 133-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Efficacy of continuous midazolam infusion and mortality in childhood refractory generalized convulsive status epilepticus.
    Seizure, 14(2): 129-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. A novel SCN1A mutation associated with severe GEFS+ in a large South American pedigree.
    Seizure, 14(2): 123-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. A systematic review of treatment of typical absence seizures in children and adolescents with ethosuximide, sodium valproate or lamotrigine.
    Seizure, 14(2): 117-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The use of lamotrigine, vigabatrin and gabapentin as add-on therapy in intractable epilepsy of childhood.
    Seizure, 14(2): 112-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Prevalence of epilepsy its treatment gap and knowledge, attitude and practice of its population in sub-urban Senegal an ILAE/IBE/WHO study.
    Seizure, 14(2): 106-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Perceived self-control of seizures in patients with uncontrolled partial epilepsy.
    Seizure, 14(2): 100-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Generator replacement in epilepsy patients treated with vagus nerve stimulation.
    Seizure, 14(2): 89-99. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. A randomised open-label study of tiagabine given two or three times daily in refractory epilepsy.
    Seizure, 14(2): 81-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Expression analysis of metabotropic glutamate receptors I and III in mouse strains with different susceptibility to experimental temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Neurosci Lett, 375(3): 192-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Effects of rapid rewarming on cerebral nitric oxide production and cerebral hemodynamics after hypothermia therapy for kainic acid-induced seizures in immature rabbits.
    Pediatr Int, 47(1): 53-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Tiagabine as add-on therapy may be more effective with valproic acid--open label, multicentre study of patients with focal epilepsy.
    Eur J Neurol, 12(3): 176-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Pulmonary hypertension during epileptic seizure with evidence of increased angiotensin II in pulmonary artery.
    Heart Vessels, 20(1): 37-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Resective surgery to treat refractory status epilepticus in children with focal epileptogenesis.
    Neurology, 64(3): 567-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Organization of receptive language-specific cortex before and after left temporal lobectomy.
    Neurology, 64(3): 481-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Safety and efficacy of two pregabalin regimens for add-on treatment of partial epilepsy.
    Neurology, 64(3): 475-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Involvement of NO in the convulsive behavior and oxidative damage induced by the intrastriatal injection of methylmalonate.
    Neurosci Lett, 376(2): 116-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Increased susceptibility of glutathione peroxidase-1 transgenic mice to kainic acid-related seizure activity and hippocampal neuronal cell death.
    Exp Neurol, 192(1): 203-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Structural and functional alterations in mitochondrial membrane in picrotoxin-induced epileptic rat brain.
    Exp Neurol, 192(1): 79-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Epilepsy and the immune system: is there a link?
    Eur J Paediatr Neurol, 9(1): 29-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Levetiracetam in the treatment of infantile spasms.
    Eur J Paediatr Neurol, 9(1): 19-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. The seroprevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis among epileptic patients in León, Nicaragua, as evaluated by ELISA and western blotting.
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol, 99(1): 41-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Paternal reactions to a child with epilepsy: uncertainty, coping strategies, and depression.
    J Adv Nurs, 49(4): 367-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. A targeted mutation in Cacng4 exacerbates spike-wave seizures in stargazer (Cacng2) mice.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102(6): 2123-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Integration of newly born dentate granule cells into adult brains: hypotheses based on normal and epileptic rodents.
    Brain Res Brain Res Rev, 48(1): 43-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Mitochondrial DNA mutations in RRF of healthy subjects of different age.
    Neurobiol Aging, 26(5): 655-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Interictal SPECT in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and psychosis: a case-control study.
    Psychiatry Res, 138(1): 75-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Probability matching in the right hemisphere.
    Brain Cogn, 57(2): 165-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Taking the high road on subcortical transfer.
    Brain Cogn, 57(2): 162-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Boundary ambiguity, coping patterns and depression in mothers caring for children with epilepsy in Taiwan.
    Int J Nurs Stud, 42(3): 273-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Naked DNA prevents soman intoxication.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 328(4): 901-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Pediatric hypocalcemic seizures: a case of rickets.
    J Emerg Med, 28(2): 161-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Hemodynamic response (BOLD/fMRI) in focal epilepsy with reference to benzodiazepine effect.
    Magn Reson Imaging, 22(10): 1487-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. The MR detection of neuronal depolarization during 3-Hz spike-and-wave complexes in generalized epilepsy.
    Magn Reson Imaging, 22(10): 1441-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Plants used to treat epilepsy by Tanzanian traditional healers.
    J Ethnopharmacol, 97(2): 327-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Emotion recognition from facial expressions in a temporal lobe epileptic patient with ictal fear.
    Neuropsychologia, 43(3): 434-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Expression of nestin in the hippocampal formation of rats submitted to the pilocarpine model of epilepsy.
    Neurosci Res, 51(3): 285-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Anti-brain but not celiac disease antibodies in Landau-Kleffner syndrome and related epilepsies.
    J Neuroimmunol, 160(1): 228-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Cortical silent period in a patient with focal epilepsy and Parry-Romberg syndrome.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 270-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Eating seizures and emotional facial paresis: evidence suggesting the amygdala is a common anatomophysiological substratum.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 266-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. A spell in the epilepsy clinic and a history of "chronic pain" or "fibromyalgia" independently predict a diagnosis of psychogenic seizures.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 264-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Add-on therapy with topiramate in progressive myoclonic epilepsy.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 260-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Serum lipid levels during carbamazepine therapy in epileptic children.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 257-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Apparent diffusion coefficient measurements in the hippocampus and amygdala of patients with temporal lobe seizures and in healthy volunteers.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 250-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Experimental design for functional MRI of scene memory encoding.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 242-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Language laterality determined by MEG mapping with MR-FOCUSS.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 235-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Magnetoencephalographic localization of the basal temporal language area.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 229-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Social competence in pediatric epilepsy: insights into underlying mechanisms.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 218-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Diagnostic and localizing value of ictal SPECT in patients with nonconvulsive status epilepticus.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 212-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Defining meaningful postoperative change in epilepsy surgery patients: measuring the unmeasurable?
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 207-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Risk factors for childhood epilepsy: a case-control study.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 203-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. A blinded pilot study of artwork in a comprehensive epilepsy center population.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 196-202. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Serum IgA, IgG, and IgM concentrations in patients with epilepsy and matched controls: a cohort-based cross-sectional study.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 191-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Effect of ACTH-induced hypercortisolemia on the EEG in patients with stress-related epilepsy.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 187-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Knowledge and attitude of the Greek educational community toward epilepsy and the epileptic student.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 179-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Frequency of panic symptoms in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 174-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Cognitive deterioration and electrical status epilepticus during slow sleep.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 167-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Predictors of seizure reduction after self-regulation of slow cortical potentials as a treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 156-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Memory and intelligence outcome following surgery for intractable temporal lobe epilepsy: relationship to seizure outcome and evaluation using a customized neuropsychological battery.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 147-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Attenuating 5alpha-pregnane-3alpha-ol-20-one formation in the hippocampus of female rats increases pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures.
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 140-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Did all those famous people really have epilepsy?
    Epilepsy Behav, 6(2): 115-39. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Antiepileptic popular ketogenic diet: emerging twists in an ancient story.
    Prog Neurobiol, 75(1): 1-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Topiramate in long-term treatment of epilepsy in the intellectually disabled.
    J Intellect Disabil Res, 49: 183-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Abnormal GABAA receptors from the human epileptic hippocampal subiculum microtransplanted to Xenopus oocytes.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102(7): 2514-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. The role of periventricular nodular heterotopia in epileptogenesis.
    Brain, 128: 641-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. A new clinical and molecular form of Unverricht-Lundborg disease localized by homozygosity mapping.
    Brain, 128: 652-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Vagus nerve stimulation: predictors of seizure freedom.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 76(3): 384-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. Neuropsychiatric porphyria in patients with refractory epilepsy: report of three cases.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 76(3): 380-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. Phospholipase D1-promoted release of tissue plasminogen activator facilitates neurite outgrowth.
    J Neurosci, 25(7): 1797-805. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. Spontaneous release of neuropeptide Y tonically inhibits recurrent mossy fiber synaptic transmission in epileptic brain.
    J Neurosci, 25(7): 1718-29. [Abstract] [Full-text]
81. Human mediotemporal EEG characteristics during propofol anesthesia.
    Biol Cybern, 92(2): 92-100. [Abstract] [Full-text]
82. Developing a computer algorithm to identify epilepsy cases in managed care organizations.
    Dis Manag, 8(1): 1-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
83. Language in benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes abbreviated form: rolandic epilepsy and language.
    Brain Lang, 92(3): 300-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
84. Epilepsy and social identity: the stigma of a chronic neurological disorder.
    Lancet Neurol, 4(3): 171-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
85. Electrical brain-stimulation paradigm for estimating the seizure onset site and the time to ictal transition in temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 718-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
86. On the predictability of epileptic seizures.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 569-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
87. Preictal state identification by synchronization changes in long-term intracranial EEG recordings.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 559-68. [Abstract] [Full-text]
88. Signal complexity and synchrony of epileptic seizures: is there an identifiable preictal period?
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 552-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
89. Multivariate linear discrimination of seizures.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 545-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
90. Long-term prospective on-line real-time seizure prediction.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 532-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
91. Accumulated energy revisited.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 527-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
92. Continuous energy variation during the seizure cycle: towards an on-line accumulated energy.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 517-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
93. A multi-feature and multi-channel univariate selection process for seizure prediction.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 506-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
94. The First International Collaborative Workshop on Seizure Prediction: summary and data description.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 116(3): 493-505. [Abstract] [Full-text]
95. Genetic modifiers of the Kv beta2-null phenotype in mice.
    Genes Brain Behav, 4(2): 77-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
96. Cellular and network properties of the subiculum in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy.
    J Comp Neurol, 483(4): 476-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
97. Serum alanine aminotransferase in skeletal muscle diseases.
    Hepatology, 41(2): 380-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
98. Is epilepsy surgery on both hemispheres effective?
    Stereotact Funct Neurosurg, 82(5): 214-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
99. Sudden death in epileptic rats exposed to nocturnal magnetic fields that simulate the shape and the intensity of sudden changes in geomagnetic activity: an experiment in response to Schnabel, Beblo and May.
    Int J Biometeorol, 49(4): 256-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
100. Characterization of cell proliferation in the adult dentate under normal conditions and after kainate induced seizures using ribonucleotide reductase and BrdU.
     Brain Res, 1036(1): 7-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
101. Medical therapy of epilepsy: when to initiate treatment and when to combine?
     J Neurol, 252(2): 125-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
102. Rhythmic bursting in the cortico-subthalamo-pallidal network during spontaneous genetically determined spike and wave discharges.
     J Neurosci, 25(8): 2092-101. [Abstract] [Full-text]
103. Antiepileptic effects of botulinum neurotoxin E.
     J Neurosci, 25(8): 1943-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
104. Surgery for symptomatic infant-onset epileptic encephalopathy with and without infantile spasms.
     Neurology, 64(4): 746-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
105. Obtaining a driver's license and seizure relapse in patients with childhood-onset epilepsy.
     Neurology, 64(4): 680-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
106. Dexmedetomidine decreases the convulsive potency of bupivacaine and levobupivacaine in rats: involvement of alpha2-adrenoceptor for controlling convulsions.
     Anesth Analg, 100(3): 687-96, table of contents. [Abstract] [Full-text]
107. Effect of cotherapy reduction on tolerability of epilepsy add-on therapy: a randomized controlled trial.
     Ann Pharmacother, 39(3): 418-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
108. Acute seizures due to a probable interaction between valproic acid and meropenem.
     Ann Pharmacother, 39(3): 533-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
109. Metallothionein reduces central nervous system inflammation, neurodegeneration, and cell death following kainic acid-induced epileptic seizures.
     J Neurosci Res, 79(4): 522-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
110. Epileptiform activity during rewarming from moderate cerebral hypothermia in the near-term fetal sheep.
     Pediatr Res, 57(3): 342-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
111. Focal seizure and cerebral contrast retention after cardiac catheterization.
     Pediatr Neurol, 32(3): 213-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
112. A case of psychosis with temporal lobe epilepsy: SPECT changes with treatment.
     Pediatr Neurol, 32(3): 197-200. [Abstract] [Full-text]
113. Electroencephalographic patterns in unresponsive pediatric patients.
     Pediatr Neurol, 32(3): 162-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
114. Electroencephalography in neonatal seizures: comparison of a reduced and a full 10/20 montage.
     Pediatr Neurol, 32(3): 155-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
115. Epilepsy's role in the historical differentiation of religion, magic, and science.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 452-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
116. Ictal smile lateralizes to the right hemisphere in childhood epilepsy.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 449-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
117. Extended-release divalproex in child and adolescent outpatients with epilepsy.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 440-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
118. The effects on cognitive performance of tailored resection in surgery for nonlesional mesiotemporal lobe epilepsy.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 431-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
119. Ipsilateral and contralateral MRI volumetric abnormalities in chronic unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy and their clinical correlates.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 420-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
120. Consistent localization of interictal epileptiform activity on EEGs of patients with tuberous sclerosis complex.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 415-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
121. Dipole modeling of epileptic spikes can be accurate or misleading.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 397-408. [Abstract] [Full-text]
122. Seizure anticipation: do mathematical measures correlate with video-EEG evaluation?
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 385-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
123. Phenobarbital pharmacokinetics in old age: a case-matched evaluation based on therapeutic drug monitoring data.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 372-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
124. Changes in baroreflex responses of kindled rats.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 367-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
125. Increased seizure susceptibility of the hippocampus compared with the neocortex of the immature mouse brain in vitro.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 356-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
126. Pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic interaction studies of loreclezole with felbamate, lamotrigine, topiramate, and oxcarbazepine in the mouse maximal electroshock seizure model.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 344-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
127. Proteomic identification of the involvement of the mitochondrial rieske protein in epilepsy.
     Epilepsia, 46(3): 339-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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