BACKGROUND Reading epilepsy is a rare form of epilepsy, classified among idiopathic, age- and localisation-related (partial) epilepsies as a reflex epilepsy syndrome. Seizures usually consist of myoclonic jerks restricted to the jaw. However, distinct ictal features including visual symptoms and paroxysmal a- or dyslexia are described in some patients. The anatomical substrate of ictogenesis in...

Occipital intermittent rhythmic delta activity (OIRDA) is considered good prognostic factor in typical absences (TA). We report electroclinical evolution in 14 patients with TA and OIRDA, which performed video-EEG. Seven patients were female; 9 had childhood absence epilepsy and the others did not present electroclinical characteristics for syndromic classification according to ILAE's classific...

PEARLS & OY-STERS: ICTAL SYNCOPE IN A PATIENT WITH TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY Nitin K. Sethi, New York: Varade et al. reported ictal syncope in a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). The MRI revealed a right temporal-occipital cavernous angioma and the seizure showed onset in the right posterior temporal electrode (T6) on EEG, all compatible with a diagnosis of symptomatic localization-relate...

background: deltamethrin (dm) is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide that can elicit neurotoxicity, leading to apoptosis. there is accumulating evidence that oleuropein (oe) has anti-apoptotic effect. the purpose of this study was to determine the anti-apoptotic effect of oe pretreatment in the neuronal cells of cerebral cortex. methods: rats were randomly divided into four groups each containin...

BACKGROUND Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a remediable epileptic syndrome. About 40% of patients continue to have seizures after standard temporal lobectomy. It has been suggested that some of these patients could actually suffer from a more complex epileptogenic network. Because a few papers have been dedicated to this topic, we decided to write an article updating this theme. METHOD...

Alterations in hippocampal neuronal Ca(2+) and Ca(2+)-dependent systems have been implicated in mediating some of the long-term neuroplasticity changes associated with acquired epilepsy (AE). However, there are no studies in an animal model of AE that directly evaluate alterations in intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) and Ca(2+) homeostatic mechanisms (Ca(2+) dynamics) during the...