how to cite this article: inaloo s, katibeh p. an epidemiologic study of 389 children with epilepsy in southern iran.iranian journal of child neurology2011;5(4):15-20 objective approximately 4% of the world's population experience one or more febrile seizures during their lifetime, and 0.5-1% of the population has active epilepsy.less than one-third of the reported seizures are categorized as e...

The emergence of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has motivated a paradigm shift in patient monitoring and disease control. Epilepsy management is one of the areas that could especially benefit from the use of WSN. By using miniaturized wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors, it is possible to perform ambulatory EEG recording and real-time seizure detection outside clinical settings. One ma...

Epileptic seizures constitute a serious neurological condition for patients and, if untreated, considerably decrease their quality of life. Early and correct diagnosis by semiological seizure analysis provides the main approach to treat and improve the patients’ condition. To obtain reliable and quantifiable information, medical professionals perform seizure detection and subsequent analysis us...

objective the lennox-gastaut syndrome (lgs: the triad of intractable seizures of various types, a slow spike-wave pattern in eeg and mental retardation) is one of the most difficult epilepsy syndromes to treat. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of zonisamide (zns) as add-on therapy in seizures of children with lgs. materials & methods in a quasi- experimental study, ...

Automated seizure detection with high specificity and sensitivity is a highly desirable but elusive goal. The failure to develop a reliable system despite decades of effort is due in part to the non-stationary and noise in the EEG/ECoG signals, as well as to the rudimentary mathematical treatment it has received. Another important limitation of present methods is their inability to perform seiz...

On Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) many vital parameters are recorded but monitoring of brain function by Electroencephalography (EEG) is rare, mainly because signal interpretation requires expert visual inspection. In 1-6 % of newborns on the NICU (sub clinical) seizures occur and even more frequent in prematures and lowbirth weight children [1]. Failure of detection and subsequent lack o...