We read with interest the letter by Parisi et al. as comment to our review. They discuss our proposal of a preferential use of the term ‘‘Epileptic headache’’ instead of ‘‘Ictal epileptic headache (IEH)’’. In our review it was pointed out, even with references to dictionaries, that the term ‘‘ictal’’ is redundant with respect to the term ‘‘epileptic’’. Moreover, an epileptic headache is necessa...

Diffuse low-grade gliomas are highly epileptogenic brain tumours. We aimed to explore the natural course of epileptic seizures, their predictors and the prognostic significance of their occurrence in adult patients harbouring a diffuse low-grade glioma. An observational retrospective multicentre study examined 1509 patients with diffuse low-grade gliomas to identify mutual interactions between ...

Although treated properly for epilepsy, a number of epileptic children have intractable seizures and about 5-10 per cent of them do not respond to anti -epileptic drugs. In the years 1986-1996 about 10,000 epileptic patients were treated in the Children's Medical Center in Tehran. A retrospective study of their medical records revealed that 41 of them had intractable seizures. I Of these 4...

how to cite this article: hashemiaghdam a, sharifi a, miri m, tafakhori a. seizure-control effect of levatiracetam on juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and other epileptic syndromes: literature review of recent studies. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):1-8. abstract objective various epileptic syndromes may present in adolescence and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (jme) is known to be the most comm...

UNLABELLED A study of concentrated attention patterns in epileptic patients was conducted with the objectives: characterization of the patients' epileptic condition; assessment of the concentrated attention levels in epileptic and nonepileptic individuals; comparison of the attention levels of the two groups. An evaluation was performed of 50 adult outpatients with complex partial seizures and ...

INTRODUCTION Considering the prevalence of epilepsy and the failure of available treatments for many epileptic patients, finding more effective drugs in the treatment of epilepsy seems necessary. Oxidative stress has a special role in the pathogenesis of epileptic syndrome. Therefore, in the present study, we have examined the anti-epileptic and anti-oxidant properties of the Ferula Assa Foetid...

PURPOSE To investigate the association between genotype (methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2 gene mutation)) and epileptic seizure phenotype in Rett syndrome. METHODS We used the British Isles Rett syndrome survey to identify 137 subjects with one of the nine most frequent MECP2 gene mutations and invited their parents or carers to participate in a postal questionnaire and telephone interview...

Investigators from the University Leipzig and University of Tübingen report mutations of KCNA2 as a novel cause of epileptic encephalopathy.

β-Carotene has been established as a known free radical scavenger with chain-breaking antioxidant properties. It has been documented for the treatment of epileptic convulsions at a 200 mg/kg body weight dose. The reported pathogenesis for epileptic convulsions is oxidative stress. Hence, experimental epileptic convulsions via oxidative stress was induced in albino mice epileptic models (maximal...