Febrile seizures are the most common type of seizure in children. Brief febrile seizures are now thought to be a relatively benign syndrome. While children who have experienced them are slightly more likely than other children to later develop unprovoked seizures and epilepsy, the febrile seizures are most likely a marker for, rather than a cause of, the subsequent seizures. Thus, a history of ...

Temporal lobe seizures have a significant chance to induce impairment of normal brain functions. Even after the termination of ictal discharges, during the post-ictal period, loss of consciousness, decreased responsiveness or other cognitive dysfunctions can persist. Previous studies have found various anatomical and functional abnormalities accompanying temporal lobe seizures, including an abn...

Temporal lobe seizures have a significant chance to induce impairment of normal brain functions. Even after the termination of ictal discharges, during the post-ictal period, loss of consciousness, decreased responsiveness or other cognitive dysfunctions can persist. Previous studies have found various anatomical and functional abnormalities accompanying temporal lobe seizures, including an abn...

Objective: To study the clinical spectrum of seizures and efficacy of anticonvulsive treatment in children. Study Design: A descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: Military Hospital (MH) Rawalpindi from October 2011 to March 2012. Material and Methods: One hundred children of either gender aged 1 month to 12 years presenting with seizures at Military Hospital Rawalpindi were evaluated a...

We retrospectively studied 90 patients with postinfarction seizures to determine the clinical features (onset, number, type), prognosis, and electroencephalographic and computed tomographic findings; we included infarctions of all etiologies. Thirty-three percent of the 90 seizures appeared early (within 2 weeks after the infarction), and 90% of the 30 early seizures appeared within 24 hours af...

We studied possible relations between seizures and problem behavior in 3 adults with developmental disabilities. Each person was observed for between 56 and 92 days to record occurrences of seizures and problem behavior. Results of our descriptive analysis indicated an association between seizures and problem behavior for each participant. For Stan, most problem behavior occurred following abse...

Nonepileptic seizures can be difficult to distinguish from epileptic seizures: they may look exactly like epileptic seizures. The difference is that during a nonepileptic seizure, there are no abnormal electrical discharges in the brain of the type seen in epileptic seizures. Nonepileptic seizures can have many causes; however, the most common cause is a psychiatric illness. In these illnesses ...

Background: Seizures due to posterior fossa lesions is an uncommon phenomenon. In this study, a systemic literature review was done (i) study the incidence of seizures in lesions, (ii) determine factors associated with high risk for seizures, and (iii) ascertain role prophylactic antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) such cases. Methods: Systemic done, MeSH terms “posterior cranial fossa” AND “seizures” “...

INTRODUCTION There is little published data on the duration of depressed consciousness following epileptic seizures. A prolonged recovery time may be a symptom of underlying brain pathology. This prospective paediatric cohort study investigates whether recovery is prolonged following symptomatic seizures. METHODS Children aged 1-16 years, who had a witnessed seizure in which consciousness was...

Objective: The detection of epileptic seizures from scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) signals can facilitate early diagnosis and treatment. Previous studies suggested that the Gaussianity EEG distributions changes depending on presence or absence seizures; however, no general signal models explain such in within a unified scheme. Methods: This paper describes formulation stochastic model based m...