Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy: There is Bad, Good, and Very Good News!

MR spectroscopy of temporal lobe epilepsy: good news and bad news.

While temporal lobe epilepsy remains a clinical challenge, recent advances in diagnosis and treatment have significantly improved patient outcome. Scalp electroencephalography (EEG) has been improved by higher-density montages and computer-assisted analysis, resulting in a greater percentage of patients with clearly defined electrical foci. MR can now show most gross lesions, including tumors a...

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

The paroxysmal motor events during sleep are certainly common.The systematic use of nocturnal video-polysomnography has largely improved the diagnostic yield in patients with clusters of nocturnal motor events. Two broad nosological categories have been identified: parasomnias (sleep terror and sleep-walking), which are thought to represent disorders of arousal during sleep,and the epileptic se...

hiv/aids good news and bad news

Symptomatic nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is a disorder characterised by clusters of brief motor seizures during sleep, often without surface EEG epileptiform abnormalities’“. For these reasons, the prevalence of this disorder has probably been underestimated. Moreover, in the past, many patients with clusters of nocturnal motor attacks have been diagnosed as having nocturnal paroxysmal dystonia5,...

The Good News and the Bad News

There is much that is attractive about Michael Burawoy’s examination of the critical turn to a public sociology. I find plausible his account of the academic nature of 1970s radical sociology especially that mobilized notions such as Althusser’s “theoretical practice.” I also was cheered to read the account of the positive developments currently in train in the USA and especially with how socia...