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 6 (2009), Issue 9 (September)

1. Efficacy and tolerability of zonisamide as add-on in brain tumor-related epilepsy: preliminary report.
   Acta Neurol Scand, 120(3): 210-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Ictal hallucination and hemispheric specialization: findings from 217 cases with a unilateral epileptic focus.
   Biol Psychol, 82(2): 133-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Self-reinforcing loop mechanism in epilepsy.
   Med Hypotheses, 73(4): 608-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Risk factors for early post-operative psychiatric symptoms in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy.
   Acta Neurol Scand, 120(3): 176-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Obesity is a common comorbidity for pediatric patients with untreated, newly diagnosed epilepsy.
   Neurology, 73(9): 658-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Recurrent seizures induce a reversible impairment in a spatial hidden goal task.
   Hippocampus, 19(9): 817-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors in pediatric patients.
   Brain Dev, 31(9): 671-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Study of antiseizure effects of Matricaria recutita extract in mice.
   Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1171: 300-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Vagus nerve stimulation.
   Neurosurg Focus, 27(3): E5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Epileptogenic potential of mefloquine chemoprophylaxis: a pathogenic hypothesis.
    Malar J, 8: 188. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Loss of dendritic HCN1 subunits enhances cortical excitability and epileptogenesis.
    J Neurosci, 29(35): 10979-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. An fMRI case study of visual memory in a patient with epilepsy: comparison before and after temporal lobe surgery.
    Brain Struct Funct, 213(4): 457-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Slow oscillation state facilitates epileptiform events in the hippocampus.
    J Neurophysiol, 102(3): 1880-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Neurophysiological characterization of high-dose magnetic seizure therapy: comparisons with electroconvulsive shock and cognitive outcomes.
    J ECT, 25(3): 157-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Gene expression analysis on anterior temporal neocortex of patients with intractable epilepsy.
    Synapse, 63(11): 1017-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Characterization of an epilepsy-associated variant of the human Cl-/HCO3(-) exchanger AE3.
    Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 297(3): C526-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Febrile seizures and cognitive function in young adult life: a prevalence study in Danish conscripts.
    J Pediatr, 155(3): 404-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Clinical Neonatal Seizures are Independently Associated with Outcome in Infants at Risk for Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury.
    J Pediatr, 155(3): 318-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Glial cell activation in response to electroconvulsive seizures.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 33(7): 1119-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Antipyretic agents for preventing recurrences of febrile seizures: randomized controlled trial.
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 163(9): 799-804. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. A fuzzy rule-based system for epileptic seizure detection in intracranial EEG.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 120(9): 1648-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. How wrong can we be? The effect of inaccurate mark-up of EEG/fMRI studies in epilepsy.
    Clin Neurophysiol, 120(9): 1637-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Approaches to seizure risk assessment in preclinical drug discovery.
    Drug Discov Today, 14(17): 876-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Hemispheric lateralization and language skill coherence in temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Cortex, 45(10): 1178-89. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Status epilepticus and epileptic seizures in dogs.
    J Vet Intern Med, 23(5): 970-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Uncoupling of astrogliosis from epileptogenesis in adenosine kinase (ADK) transgenic mice.
    Neuron Glia Biol, 4(2): 91-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Gingival overgrowth, congenital generalized hypertrichosis, mental retardation and epilepsy: case report and overview.
    Clin Dysmorphol, 18(4): 205-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. A 58 year old woman with a corpus callosum nodule at autopsy.
    Brain Pathol, 19(4): 743-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. 22-year-old girl with status epilepticus and progressive neurological symptoms.
    Brain Pathol, 19(4): 727-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Effect of CYP3A5*3 genotype on serum carbamazepine concentrations at steady-state in Korean epileptic patients.
    J Clin Pharm Ther, 34(5): 569-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Hippocampal sclerosis: progress since Sommer.
    Brain Pathol, 19(4): 565-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Three human ARX mutations cause the lissencephaly-like and mental retardation with epilepsy-like pleiotropic phenotypes in mice.
    Hum Mol Genet, 18(19): 3708-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Familial and sporadic 15q13.3 microdeletions in idiopathic generalized epilepsy: precedent for disorders with complex inheritance.
    Hum Mol Genet, 18(19): 3626-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. CCR3, CCR2A and macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1a, monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) in the mouse hippocampus during and after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus (PISE) .
    Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol, 35(5): 496-514. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Interrater reliability of EEG-video monitoring.
    Neurology, 73(11): 843-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Seizure frequency and lateralization affect progression of atrophy in temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Neurology, 73(11): 834-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Altered distribution and function of A2A adenosine receptors in the brain of WAG/Rij rats with genetic absence epilepsy, before and after appearance of the disease.
    Eur J Neurosci, 30(6): 1023-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Epilepsy in children with infantile thiamine deficiency.
    Neurology, 73(11): 828-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Differences in cortical versus subcortical GABAergic signaling: a candidate mechanism of electroclinical uncoupling of neonatal seizures.
    Neuron, 63(5): 657-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Heat opens axon initial segment sodium channels: a febrile seizure mechanism?
    Ann Neurol, 66(2): 219-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Seizures associated with levofloxacin: case presentation and literature review.
    Eur J Clin Pharmacol, 65(10): 959-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Effects of vagus nerve stimulation on pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine induction in patients with refractory epilepsy.
    J Neuroimmunol, 214(1): 104-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Epilepsy and insular Grade II gliomas: an interdisciplinary point of view from a retrospective monocentric series of 46 cases.
    Neurosurg Focus, 27(2): E8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Challenges in the surgical treatment of epilepsy patients with cortical dysplasia.
    Epilepsia, 50: 45-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. From human tissue to animal models: Insights into the pathogenesis of cortical dysplasia.
    Epilepsia, 50: 28-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Clinical, functional, and neurophysiologic assessment of dysplastic cortical networks: Implications for cortical functioning and surgical management.
    Epilepsia, 50: 19-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. New directions in clinical imaging of cortical dysplasias.
    Epilepsia, 50: 9-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. The electrocortical effects of enflurane: experiment and theory.
    Anesth Analg, 109(4): 1253-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Making sense of nonsense GABA(A) receptor mutations associated with genetic epilepsies.
    Trends Mol Med, 15(9): 430-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Prediction of antiepileptic drug efficacy: the use of intracerebral microdialysis to monitor biophase concentrations.
    Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol, 5(10): 1267-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Early seizures and cerebral oedema after trivial head trauma associated with the CACNA1A S218L mutation.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 80(10): 1125-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Pre- and postoperative fMRI and clinical memory performance in temporal lobe epilepsy.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 80(10): 1099-106. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Neurosurgical management of intractable rolandic epilepsy in children: role of resection in eloquent cortex. Clinical article.
    J Neurosurg Pediatr, 4(3): 199-216. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. What has positron emission tomography told us about the epileptogenic zone?
    Rev Neurol (Paris), 165(10): 739-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Neuroethological approach to frontolimbic epileptic seizures and parasomnias: The same central pattern generators for the same behaviours.
    Rev Neurol (Paris), 165(10): 762-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Magnetic source imaging.
    Rev Neurol (Paris), 165(10): 742-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Epilepsy surgery for insular lesions.
    Rev Neurol (Paris), 165(10): 755-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Familial cortical myoclonic tremor with epilepsy (FCMTE): Clinical characteristics and exclusion of linkages to 8q and 2p in a large French family.
    Rev Neurol (Paris), 165(10): 812-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. De novo mutations of voltage-gated sodium channel alphaII gene SCN2A in intractable epilepsies.
    Neurology, 73(13): 1046-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy 25 years after seizure onset: a population-based study.
    Neurology, 73(13): 1041-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Child Neurology: Dravet syndrome: when to suspect the diagnosis.
    Neurology, 73(13): e59-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. The treatment gap of epilepsy in a rural district of Vietnam: a study from the EPIBAVI project.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2320-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Extent of initial injury determines language lateralization in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS).
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2249-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Disparities in epilepsy: report of a systematic review by the North American Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2285-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Bilateral reorganization of the dentate gyrus in hippocampal sclerosis: a postmortem study.
    Neurology, 73(13): 1033-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Pediatric convulsive status epilepticus in Honduras, Central America.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2314-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor facilitates TrkB down-regulation and neuronal injury after status epilepticus in the rat hippocampus.
    J Neurochem, 111(2): 428-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Lateralizing language with magnetic source imaging: validation based on the Wada test.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2242-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Incidence of newly diagnosed epileptic seizures in a French South Indian Ocean Island, La Réunion (EPIREUN).
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2207-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Multitask electrical stimulation for cortical language mapping: hints for necessity and economic mode of application.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2267-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Prevalence, incidence, and clinical characteristics of epilepsy--a community-based door-to-door study in northern Tanzania.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2310-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Economic burden of epilepsy in a developing country: a retrospective cost analysis in China.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2192-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Natural history and mortality of chronic epilepsy in an untreated population of rural Bolivia: a follow-up after 10 years.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2199-206. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Distributed source modeling of language with magnetoencephalography: application to patients with intractable epilepsy.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2256-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Economic impact of epilepsy in the United States.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2186-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Underlying cause of death in incident unprovoked seizures in the urban community of Northern Manhattan, New York City.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2296-300. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Language lateralization in epilepsy patients: fMRI validated with the Wada procedure.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2225-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. Prevalence of epilepsy and seizures in the Navajo Nation 1998-2002.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2180-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. The social causes of inequality in epilepsy and developing a rehabilitation strategy: a U.K.-based analysis.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2175-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. Utilization of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy: comparative patterns in 38 countries based on data from the EURAP registry.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2305-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
81. Cerebral lesions can impair fMRI-based language lateralization.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2213-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
82. A systematic review of the epidemiology of epilepsy in Arab countries.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2301-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
83. Neuropsychological and functional MRI studies provide converging evidence of anterior language dysfunction in BECTS.
    Epilepsia, 50(10): 2276-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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