Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurologic disorders. Pharmacoresistance and adverse effects of current antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) necessitate development of new drugs and strategies for treatment of epilepsy. Omega 3-Polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω3-PUFAs) are safe nutritional supplements that recently considered for treatment of epilepsy. Anticonvulsant effect of docosahexa...

PURPOSE Dravet syndrome (DS) is a rare disorder with seizure onset in the first year of life, typically beginning with prolonged febrile hemiclonic seizures or generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Photosensitivity is reported in more than 40% of patients. We present two cases of DS in which we had the chance to record occipital seizures induced by Intermittent Photic Stimulation (IPS). METHOD W...

We report a patient with prolonged monoparesis and parietal periodic lateralised epileptiform discharges (PLEDs). The patient was a 73-year-old man with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia who developed persisting monoparesis of the right arm, sensory aphasia, and finger agnosia, initially associated with focal clonic seizures. These neurological deficits remained for seven days without subsequent...

how to cite this article: talebian a, jahangiri m, rabiee m, masoudi alavi n, akbari h, sadat z. the etiology and clinical evaluations of neonatal seizures in kashan, iran. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):29-41.   abstract objective detection of seizure, its etiology, and clinical types is important for guiding therapy. this study was designed to evaluate the etiology and clinical evaluat...

Repeated kindled seizures induce long-lasting physiological and morphological alterations in the hippocampal formation. In the dentate gyrus (DG), the morphological alterations induced by kindled seizures include loss of polymorphic neurons in the hilus, mossy fiber axon sprouting, and synaptic reorganization of the mossy fiber pathway. In this study, quantitative stereological methods were use...

In this report a 20-year-old male patient who had suffered tonic-clonic seizure after a single induction dose of etomidate until a bispectral index value of 60 is presented. Our best knowledge, this case is the first report of pure etomidate (with induction dose) induced generalized tonic clonic seizure proven with EEG. Anaesthesiologists should be careful against such a complication even in th...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal injuries stemming from forceful muscular contractions during seizures have been documented in the literature. Reports of multiple seizure-induced spinal fractures, in the absence of external trauma and without risk factors for fracture, are rare. CASE PRESENTATION A 28-year-old male, newly diagnosed with epilepsy, presented to a chiropractic clinic with the complain...

AIM The changes of seizure susceptibility of transgenic mice overexpressing GABA transporter-1 (GAT-1) were studied to clarify the possible role of GABAergic transmission in epileptogenesis. METHODS Seizures were induced by intraperitoneal administration of pentylenetetrazol (PTZ), picrotoxin (PIC), or kainic acid (KA) respectively. The anticonvulsant effect of ethyl nipecotate was tested by ...