The mean age of petit mal epilepsy

Epilepsy, Grand Mal, Petit Mal Convulsions

traneous" hormones, (e) metabolic studies, (f) sensitivity of presumed target organ, (g) effects of removal of certain of the endocrines, (h) effect of hypophysectomy on target organs (related to subject "g"), and (i) graft studies. No student of experimental embryology should be denied the opportunity of reading Jost's essay. Finally, the essay by Greep on the interrelations of pituitary funct...

Petit Mal or Pyknolepsy

A Case of Minor Epilepsy (Petit mal) Due to Cerebral Trauma

on epilepsy, observes that traumatic epilepsy falls" into a special group among the epilepsies. Further, he calls attention to a-very important point in connection with so-called traumatic epilepsy, namely, that one should be very cautious in ascribing the fits to a cranial injury even when a definite scar exists on the head of the patient in the left parietal region. Mus'keris would go so far ...

Tridione compared with malidone in the treatment of petit mal.

Tridione (3,5,5,-trimethyloxazolidine-2 4dione) has been extensively used in the treatment of petit mal for five years, and its success in more than 60% of cases has been well established. Its dangers and limitations are also well recognized (Richards and Everett, 1944; Lennox, 1947). During the past two years 25 men between the ages of 17 and 52 who suffered from frequent petit mal, and 15 of ...

Differential effects of petit mal anticonvulsants and convulsants

1 Currents evoked by applications of y-aminobutyric acid (GABA) to acutely dissociated thalamic neurones were analysed by voltage-clamp techniques, and the effects of the anticonvulsant succinimides ethosuximide (ES) and a-methyl-a-phenylsuccinimide (MPS) and the convulsants tetramethylsuccinimide (TMS), picrotoxin, pentylenetetrazol (PTZ), and bicuculline methiodide were assessed. 2 TMS (1 juM...