The aim of this study was to assess the number of fever episodes as a risk factor for febrile seizure recurrence during the first 6 months after the last previous febrile seizure. In a 6-month follow-up study of 155 children, aged 3 months to 5 y, with a first or a recurrent febrile seizure, the occurrence of fever episodes and febrile seizure recurrences was prospectively documented. Using log...

A review of patients with epilepsy showed that 5.9% had seizures exclusively in sleep (ES) and 4.7% had seizures predominantly but not exclusively in sleep (PS). These groups were compared with a group (W) with seizures mainly in wakefulness. The following significant differences were obtained: 1) generalized convulsions predominated in the ES while partial seizures were more common among PS an...

More than 65 million people worldwide are affected by epilepsy. There numerous techniques to assist epileptics. The primary danger their lives, however, is unconsciousness and convulsions. Novel for shortening the time it takes regain awareness given in this research. This accomplished programming fabricating ARM Cortex M4F LPC4330 microcontroller a six-layer printed circuit board (PCB) capable...

A relation between pyridoxine and convulsive phenomena has been established over several years (Snyderman, Holt, Carretero, and Jacobs, 1953; Molony and Parmelee, 1954; Adams, Bessey, Bussey, and Hansen, 1954; May, 1954; Coursin, 1954, 1955). This led to a search for evidence of pyridoxine deficiency among children with cryptogenic epilepsy. Soon patients were discovered who, though receiving a...

Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy (HHE) syndrome is an uncommon outcome of prolonged focal status epilepticus in childhood. The prolonged focal motor seizure usually occurs during the course of a febrile illness and is followed by hemiplegia ipsilateral to the side of convulsions. This is accompanied by radiologic evidence of acute cytotoxic edema in the affected hemisphere followed by chronic...

Abstract Background Women have a slightly lower prevalence of epilepsy and unprovoked seizures than men; however, women with several exceptional dilemmas, including the use anti-seizure medications (ASMs) in addition to effects ASMs on sexual function, contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, congenital fetal malformations, breastfeeding. This study assessed knowledge obstetricians family medicine...

L-Deprenyl (Selegeline) introduced for use in parkinson's disease, is implicated to show beneficial effects in epilepsy, alzheimer's disease, cognition, depression and other age related neurological diseases. In this study, we investigated the CNS effects of L-deprenyl with special reference to epilepsy, anxiety and cognition and memory in mice. L-deprenyl (10, 20 and 40 mg/kg) showed a signifi...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the possible association between Apo E polymorphisms and age at seizure onset in patients with non-lesional temporal lobe epilepsy. Eighty patients with non-lesional temporal lobe epilepsy with or without bilateral tonic-clonic propagation were analyzed. Age at seizure onset was defined as age at the first unequivocal seizure (excluding febrile convulsions)....

Background: There is a consensus that migraine and epilepsy are comorbid conditions. The novel concept explored and developed in this case series is that of the primacy of headaches in generating seizures in those patients suffering from migraine-triggered epilepsy (i.e., migralepsy). As demonstrated in the five cases descried here, much like the effect of ketogenic-diet on migraine-triggered e...