Objectives: to describe preliminary data referred to epileptic seizures and the probability of occurring these epileptic seizures in the infants ́ first months of life with congenital Zika virus (ZIKV) syndrome. Methods: concurrent cohort study including newborns and infants with congenital Zika virus syndrome attended at the specialized outpatient clinic at IMIP, Recife, Pernambuco, from Octobe...

Non-epileptic seizures (NES) is a descriptive term for a diverse group of disorders that refer to paroxysmal events that can be mistaken for epilepsy, but are not due to an epileptic disorder. “Non-epileptic seizure” is the preferred term. As confirmed by Steven Schachter, MD in his 1966 survey of American epileptologists, the majority of respondents considers this to be the preferred term as o...

Little is known about the types of mental health treatment that are most effective for psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) patients who have high rates of comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dissociation. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has proved to be effective in the treatment of PTSD, anxiety states, dissociative symptoms and somatoform disorders. Th...

When dogs or cats get seizures, epileptic seizures and epilepsy are usually thought of. However, it is important to take into account the existence of that similar but do not belong (non-epileptic seizures). Nonepileptic occur suddenly, short-term, disappear as quickly they occur, recur have no etiology can be non-neurological neurological origin. Unlike non-epileptic a specific neural origin r...

objective: lamotrigine is an antiepileptic drug, widely used in the treatment of epilepsy; long-term use of this drug can cause hepatotoxicity. zingiber officinale roscoe (ginger) possesses antioxidant properties. in present research, the effect ofhydroalcoholic extract of ginger (heg) on the liver of lamotrigine-treated epileptic rats was investigated material and methods: forty-eight female w...

In humans, HHcy causes various symptoms such as mental retardation, epilepsy, epileptic seizures and atherosclerosis, whose pathology is not fully understood. Pro-inflammatory mediators released by activated microglia secrete various neurotoxic factors such as NO and ROS, which contribute to neuronal degeneration in neurodegenerative diseases [1,2]. Within this context, HHcy proved to cause neu...

We report a case of graphogenic epilepsy as a variant of language-induced epilepsy. A 25-year-old, right-handed woman had noticed for the previous 10 years that writing almost always provoked jerks or a jerking sensation in her right hand. No other triggers, including facets of language function such as reading and speaking, elicited any epileptic seizures. Ictal EEG demonstrated an initial lef...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the anxiety and depression symptom severity in a group of epileptic children and compare the results to healthy controls. Additionally, the frequency of psychiatric disorders in epileptic children was also assessed. METHOD The study compared 30 children, ranging in age from 8 to 16 years with epileptic disorder who attended a children's neurology ...

There is evidence that focal epilepsy may involve the dysfunction of a brain network in addition to the focal region. To delineate the characteristics of this epileptic network, we collected EEG/fMRI data from 23 patients with frontal lobe epilepsy. For each patient, EEG/fMRI analysis was first performed to determine the BOLD response to epileptic spikes. The maximum activation cluster in the f...