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 8 (August)

1. Validation of a method for localised microinjection of drugs into thalamic subregions in rats for epilepsy pharmacological studies.
   J Neurosci Methods, 146(2): 191-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Perioperative management of a patient with May-Hegglin anomaly requiring craniotomy.
   Am J Hematol, 79(4): 303-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Seizure-induced changes of mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors in the hippocampus in seizure sensitive gerbils.
   Neurosci Res, 53(1): 14-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Sodium channel mutations in epilepsy and other neurological disorders.
   J Clin Invest, 115(8): 2010-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. To BDNF or not to BDNF: that is the epileptic hippocampus.
   Neuroscientist, 11(4): 282-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Do interictal spikes drive epileptogenesis?
   Neuroscientist, 11(4): 272-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Seizures manifesting as an urge to defecate, with an ictal discharge in the right hemisphere.
   Epilepsia, 46(8): 1330-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Is the sleep-deprivation EEG a burden for both child and parent?
   Epilepsia, 46(8): 1328-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Nonconvulsive status epilepticus after temporal lobectomy.
   Epilepsia, 46(8): 1325-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Status gelasticus after temporal lobectomy: ictal FDG-PET findings and the question of dual pathology involving hypothalamic hamartomas.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1313-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Antiglial cell autoantibodies and childhood epilepsy: a case report.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1308-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Fast and sustained efficacy of levetiracetam during titration and the first 3 months of treatment in refractory epilepsy.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1304-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Socioeconomic status is a risk factor for epilepsy in Icelandic adults but not in children.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1297-303. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Quality of phenobarbital solid-dosage forms in the urban community of Nouakchott (Mauritania).
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1293-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Management of women with epilepsy: Are guidelines being followed? Results from case-note reviews and a patient questionnaire.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1286-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Predictive clinical factors for the differential diagnosis of childhood extratemporal seizures.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1280-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Prognostic factors for the surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: longitudinal analysis.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1273-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Application of magnetoencephalography in epilepsy patients with widespread spike or slow-wave activity.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1264-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Familial temporal lobe epilepsy as a presenting feature of choreoacanthocytosis.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1256-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Epileptogenesis due to peripheral injury as a cause of focal epilepsy.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1252-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Poststroke epilepsy: occurrence and predictors--a long-term prospective controlled study (Akershus Stroke Study).
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1246-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Characteristics of headache associated with intractable partial epilepsy.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1241-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Hyperorality in epileptic seizures: periictal incomplete Klüver-Bucy syndrome.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1235-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Reflex seizures in patients with malformations of cortical development and refractory epilepsy.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1224-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials in patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1219-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Characterizing the patterned images that precipitate seizures and optimizing guidelines to prevent them.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1212-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Thiol redox state and lipid and protein oxidation in the mouse striatum after pentylenetetrazol-induced epileptic seizure.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1205-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. A comparison of the ability of a 4:1 ketogenic diet and a 6.3:1 ketogenic diet to elevate seizure thresholds in adult and young rats.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1198-204. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Increased high-frequency oscillations precede in vitro low-Mg seizures.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1188-97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Time course and mapping of cerebral perfusion during amygdala secondarily generalized seizures.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1178-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Separation of antiepileptogenic and antiseizure effects of levetiracetam in the spontaneously epileptic rat (SER).
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1170-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Suppression of kindled seizures by paracrine adenosine release from stem cell-derived brain implants.
    Epilepsia, 46(8): 1162-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Transient depression of excitatory synapses on interneurons contributes to epileptiform bursts during gamma oscillations in the mouse hippocampal slice.
    J Neurophysiol, 94(2): 1225-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Furosemide and mannitol suppression of epileptic activity in the human brain.
    J Neurophysiol, 94(2): 907-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Rat subicular networks gate hippocampal output activity in an in vitro model of limbic seizures.
    J Physiol, 566: 885-900. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Cell type-specific action of seizure-induced intracellular zinc accumulation in the rat hippocampus.
    J Physiol, 566: 821-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Involvement of extracellular regulated kinase and p38 kinase in hippocampal seizure tolerance.
    J Neurosci Res, 81(4): 581-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Gamma-aminobutyric acid and mefloquine-induced seizures in mice.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 29(6): 917-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Laser evoked potentials and carbamazepine in epileptic patients.
    Neurophysiol Clin, 35(2): 93-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. EEG evaluation of fixation-off sensitivity in eyelid myoclonia with absences.
    Pediatr Neurol, 33(2): 142-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Epilepsy and intrathecal baclofen therapy in children with cerebral palsy.
    Pediatr Neurol, 33(2): 110-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. 1-Ethyl-2-benzimidazolinone (EBIO) suppresses epileptiform activity in in vitro hippocampus.
    Neuropharmacology, 49(3): 376-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. 5-HT1A receptor agonists modify epileptic seizures in three experimental models in rats.
    Neuropharmacology, 49(3): 367-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Scopolamine-induced convulsions in fasted mice after food intake: effects of glucose intake, antimuscarinic activity and anticonvulsant drugs.
    Neuropharmacology, 49(3): 293-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. An epileptic seizure prediction algorithm based on second-order complexity measure.
    Physiol Meas, 26(5): 609-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Abnormal expression of epilepsy-related gene ERG1/NSF in the spontaneous recurrent seizure rats with spatial learning memory deficits induced by kainic acid.
    Brain Res, 1053(1): 195-202. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Glutamate and GABA immunocytochemical electron microscopy in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of normal and genetic absence epilepsy rats.
    Brain Res, 1053(1): 108-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Lack of the alanine-serine-cysteine transporter 1 causes tremors, seizures, and early postnatal death in mice.
    Brain Res, 1052(2): 212-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Immunization with the glutamate receptor-derived peptide GluR3B induces neuronal death and reactive gliosis, but confers partial protection from pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures.
    Exp Neurol, 195(1): 92-102. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Endovascular ablation of a temporal lobe epileptogenic focus - a complication of Wada testing.
    Acta Neurol Scand, 112(3): 189-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Parenchymal lesions in pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy: dual and multiple pathology.
    Acta Neurol Scand, 112(3): 151-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Experience with topiramate monotherapy in elderly patients with recent-onset epilepsy.
    Acta Neurol Scand, 112(3): 144-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Maternal valproate dosage and foetal malformations.
    Acta Neurol Scand, 112(3): 137-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Cocaine alters catalase activity in prefrontal cortex and striatum of mice.
    Neurosci Lett, 387(1): 53-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Transcriptional profiling of a mouse model for Lafora disease reveals dysregulation of genes involved in the expression and modification of proteins.
    Neurosci Lett, 387(2): 62-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Comparative effects of levobupivacaine and racemic bupivacaine on excitotoxic neuronal death in culture and N-methyl-D-aspartate-induced seizures in mice.
    Eur J Pharmacol, 518(2): 111-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Perception and attitude to epilepsy among teachers in primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions in middle belt Nigeria.
    Trop Doct, 35(3): 153-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Egr3 stimulation of GABRA4 promoter activity as a mechanism for seizure-induced up-regulation of GABA(A) receptor alpha4 subunit expression.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102(33): 11894-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Neurosteroids exhibit differential effects on mIPSCs recorded from normal and seizure prone rats.
    J Neurophysiol, 94(3): 2171-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Extra-hippocampal grey matter density abnormalities in paediatric mesial temporal sclerosis.
    Neuroimage, 27(3): 635-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Sacred disease secrets revealed: the genetics of human epilepsy.
    Hum Mol Genet, 14(17): 2491-500. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Kainic acid-induced status epilepticus alters GABA receptor subunit mRNA and protein expression in the developing rat hippocampus.
    J Neurochem, 94(5): 1384-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Lateralized anterior mesiotemporal lobe activation: semirandom functional MR imaging encoding paradigm in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy--initial experience.
    Radiology, 236(3): 996-1003. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Sensory stimulation reduces seizure severity but not afterdischarge duration of partial seizures kindled in the hippocampus at threshold intensities.
    Neurosci Lett, 388(1): 33-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Seizures induced by microperfusion of glutamate and glycine in the hippocampus of rats pretreated with latrunculin A.
    Neurosci Lett, 388(2): 81-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. No evidence of ATP1A2 involvement in 12 multiplex Italian families with benign familial infantile seizures.
    Neurosci Lett, 388(2): 71-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Cyclosporin A aggravates electroshock-induced convulsions in mice with a transient middle cerebral artery occlusion.
    Cell Mol Neurobiol, 25(5): 923-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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