Continuous electroencephalography (EEG) is a major tool for monitoring patients admitted to the intensive care unit after refractory convulsive status epilepticus, following control of movements. We review values different EEG patterns observed in critically ill prognosis and seizure risk, together with proposed criteria non-convulsive epilepticus diagnosis (Salzburg Criteria), scores (Epidemio...

it has been reported that fractures are more common in epileptic patients relative to the general population. seizures by repeated muscular contractions can increase fracture risk throughout the skeleton, but the reported papers about non traumatic vertebral fractures following a single episode of seizure are rare and mostly located in thoracic spine with only one or two vertebral fracture. the...

RCDP is a rare autosomal recessively inherited skeletal dysplasia characterized by rhizomelia, ichthyosis, seizures, repeated infections, congenital cataracts and joint contractures. Radiological features include epiphyseal stippling, metaphyseal abnormalities and clefts in vertebral bodies. We report a case of RDCP in a neonate because of its rarity.

In a group of 166 patients who had received electroconvulsive therapy more than one year previously the prevalence of epilepsy did not differ significantly from that found in the community as a whole. The findings suggest that a kindling process is not a clinical hazard following repeated electrically induced seizures.

Systemic administration of the potassium channel blocker 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) elicits acute convulsions. Synchronized tonic-clonic activity develops during the first hour after the treatment. However, subsequent chronic spontaneous seizures do not appear which suggests changes in neuronal excitability. The aim of our present work was to evaluate alterations in the glutamatergic transmission i...

Neurophysiological studies are often designed to examine relationships between measures from different testing conditions, time points, or analysis techniques within the same group of participants. Appropriate statistical techniques that can take into account repeated measures and multivariate predictor variables are integral and essential to successful data analysis and interpretation. This wo...