PURPOSE To determine whether patients with comorbid epilepsy and psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (PNES) and their caregivers can distinguish between these two events at least one year after initial diagnosis, and to investigate factors associated with correct identification. METHODS Adult patients with at least a one year diagnosis of both epilepsy and PNES, confirmed through video-electroen...

Exact low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (eLORETA) is a technique for three-dimensional representation of the distribution of sources of electrical activity in the brain. Kurtosis analysis allows for identification of spiky activity in the brain. To evaluate the reliability of eLORETA kurtosis analysis, the results of the analysis were compared with those of equivalent current dipo...

Background: Seizures in childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) are typically easily controlled with anti-seizure medications (ASMs). Factors predictive of treatment resistance remain unclear. Our objectives were to assess prevalence neuropsychiatric problems and factors influencing a cohort CAE at single centre. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed patients diagnosed between January 1999 December 201...

Introduction. Idiopathic generalized epilepsies account for approximately 15-20% of individuals with epilepsy. However, there is no consensus on how to cancel anticonvulsant therapy in patients these epileptic syndromes after achieving remission, and what can be considered as risk factors relapse seizures.
 Purpose: identification predictors seizure recurrence discontinuation idiopathic ep...

how to cite this article: fayyazi a, karimzadeh p, torabian s, damadi s, khaje a. comparison of intravenous midazolam drip with intermittent intravenous diazepam in the treatment of refractory serial seizures in children. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 15-19.   objective serial seizures occur commonly in inpatient epileptic children. this type ofseizure due to its characteristics has a signifi...

COMMENT. The authors comment that the benefit in persistent migraine relief rates found for dexamethasone in this study should be interpreted with caution because this was a subgroup analysis. Becker WJ, Kryscio RJ, in an editorial (Neurology 2007;69:2034-2035), note that others have reported benefits of dexamethasone, especially with larger doses and with headache endpoints beyond 24 hours pos...

Childhood cerebral hemiatrophy is a rare clinical condition. Its causes are numerous, but they can be divided into two categories: congenital and acquired. The type develops intrauterine, whereas the acquired early in life, usually before age of two. Cerebral syndromes characterized by wide range neurological symptoms. epilepsy, mental retardation, neuropsychiatric disorders common, movement su...

objective systemic lupus erythematosus (sle), an autoimmune systemic disease with unknown etiology, affects virtually every part of the body; involvement of the central nervous system (cns) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) patients and is the least understood aspect of the disease. neutropenia is very uncommon in childhood lupus. true n...

Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome (DDMS) is a rare disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, facial asymmetry, contralateral hemiplegia, radiologic features of cerebral hemiatrophy, and ipsilateral compensatory hypertrophy of the skull bone and sinuses. We describe three cases of children with DDMS, who initially presented with refractory seizure to the pediatric department of North Bengal Medi...

Early discussions on epilepsy rarely differentiated between epilepsies in childhood and those in adult life. The history of classification of the epilepsies might be defined in three major eras: the philosophical era before the twentieth century, marked by patient observation and, to a large degree, philosophical speculation as to the nature of the disease; the era of the localizationalists and...