Epilepsy Research Group

Epilepsy Research Group

We read, with interest, the article by Dr. Zaidi and coworkers published in a recent issue of your journal regarding the use of an implantable ECG monitor and its effectiveness in diagnosing convulsive syncope1. We have recently investigated a very similar patient with recurrent fortnightly episodes of loss of consciousness with cardiac asystole (up to 25 seconds duration) who was diagnosed wit...

An Introduction to Focus Group Research

A focus group refers to a group of people who share some common characteristics. A researcher gathers these people in the group in order that they share their points of view and interact with each other over a specific issue. Focus group and Interview group are used interchangeably in the scientific literature and both refer to a method of collecting data in qualitative studies. Given the impor...

tDCS clinical research - highlights: Epilepsy

Genetics of epilepsy: epilepsy research foundation workshop report.

The Sixth Epilepsy Research Foundation workshop, held in Oxford in March 2006, brought together basic scientists, geneticists, epidemiologists, statisticians, pharmacologists and clinicians to consider progress, issues and strategies for harnessing genetics to improve the understanding and treatment of the epilepsies. General principles were considered, including the fundamental importance of c...

Science and epilepsy. Neuroscience gains in epilepsy research

JAMES L. O'LEARY and SIDNEY GOLDRING, Science and epilepsy. Neuroscience gains in epilepsy research, New York, Raven Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xv, 287, illus., $22.50. It is claimed that this is "a historic monograph", but in fact it is an amalgam of pickings from what has been written already, especially the definitive work by Owsei Temkin, and a review of the more recent technical literature. The...