The term déjà vu is used to refer to the feeling of having already witnessed or experienced a current situation, despite the exact circumstances of the prior encounter being unclear. Although the déjà vu experience may be a benign occurrence, it may also be one of the first warning signs of a neurological event such as temporal lobe epilepsy. Symptoms of epilepsy may be difficult to recognize i...

About one-third of the 65 million people worldwide affected by epilepsy are treatment-resistant, and the degree to which they suffer from seizures and convulsions can vary widely. Problems occur when nerve cells in the brain fail to communicate properly. A new study has found that inhibiting an enzyme that is critical in metabolic communication has an anti-seizure effect in epileptic mice. Thes...

HISTORICAL. MEDIJNA in 1934 introduced therapeutic convulsions for schizophrenic states on the assumption, later proved to be quite erroneous, that there was an antagonism between dementia proecox and epilepsy. Meduna used various convulsant agents before finally discovering the advantages of cardiazol. Although convulsant therapy was found to be disappointing for dementia praecox, the conditio...

Case Report: A 35-year-old man with a history of juvenile absence epilepsy had 2 new onset generalized convulsions. EEG (Electroencephalogram) recorded 95 K-complexes periodically during sleep, 22 of which were epileptiform K-complexes. Small spike and polyspike were superimposed on either the ascending or the descending limb of the slow wave of K-complex. In addition, spike/polyspike-wave disc...

The prognosis of partial epilepsy in childhood (excluding cases of benign partial epilepsy) was studied; the average follow up period was 7.4 years. Improvement rate of seizure status was 82.3%. We studied favourable prognostic factors and found that those most often associated with seizure improvement were familial convulsions and idiopathic forms, no generalised seizures before partial onset,...

Syncope is a condition often misdiagnosed as epilepsy. Syncope caused by cardiac disturbance is a life-threatening condition and accurate diagnosis is crucial for patient outcome. We present a case study of a 71-year-old woman who was referred to our epilepsy centre with a diagnosis of refractory epilepsy. We diagnosed convulsive syncope caused by malignant cardiac arrhythmia based on the prese...

the differentiation of vasovagal syncope and epileptic seizure is sometimes problematic, since vasovagal syncope may mimic epileptic seizures in many ways. the present report describes a patient who had been diagnosed and treated as having epilepsy with medically-refractory sei-zures for 16 years. often, unlike epileptic seizures, tonic-clonic convulsions and postictal confusion are uncommon fe...

EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS IN EPILEPSY 133 5.1. Background 133 5.1.1. Classification of excitatory amino acid receptors 133 5.2. Role of Excitatory Amino Acids in Transmission of Hyperactivity 133 5.3. Role of excitatory amino acids in Primary Events 135 5.3.1. Convulsions induced by glutamate 135 5.3.2. Excitotoxic action 135 5.3.3. Neurotoxic lesions as epileptic foci 136 5.3.4. Quinolinic acid 1...

PURPOSE The aim of this research is to assess youth's knowledge and attitude towards their epileptic peers. MATERIAL AND METHODS The present study concerned 181 students of two secondary schools in Poznań, including 107 girls and 74 boys. The tool used was a self-made questionnaire. The criterion of including a questionnaire into data was the answer to the following question: "Have you heard ...