In addition to causing polymalformative syndrome, 22q11.2 deletion can lead to various neuropsychiatric disorders including mental retardation, psychosis, and epilepsy. However, few reports regarding epilepsy-related psychosis in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) exist. We describe the clinical characteristics and course of 22q11.2DS in a Japanese patient with comorbid mild mental retardati...

Sometimes childhood epilepsy may present with an acute onset of catastrophic seizures, rapidly progressing to intractable status epilepticus with poor outcome. One such example is postencephalitic epilepsy (1), which is a rare epileptic condition and is characterized by different names, such as acute encephalitis with refractory repetitive partial seizures (2), idiopathic catastrophic epileptic...

Vol. 1, No. 4 ■ May 2001 U ntil quite recently, the seizure disorders of childhood were broadly associated with generalized disruptions in brain maturation and, by association, the complete range of behavioral and intellectual deficits common in children with epilepsy. This concept of pediatric epilepsy as a cause of diffuse cognitive problems was supported by several lines of evidence as well ...

Epilepsy and migraine are quite common neurological disorders in the worldwide population characterized by episodic, paroxysmal manifestations. A common etiopathogenetical basis has been hypothesized. Peri-ictal headache is present in the majority of the epileptic patients, however, it may be neglected by the patients themselves as seizures represent the predominant disabling symptom. Comorbidi...

Background: Epilepsy is a chronic condition that affects considerable portion of the population, being one most frequent neurological diseases. The high incidence and losses proceeded from low seizure control, lead to need know peculiarities epilepsy in order promote adequate intervention patient transition. Epileptic patients end their childhood become adolescents adults with disease. Therefor...

PURPOSE This study aimed to explore cognitive functions in patients with childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (CEOP) and to compare the performance of these patients with that of patients with symptomatic occipital epilepsy (SOE) and healthy control subjects. METHOD Twenty-eight patients with epilepsy (17 CEOP, 11 SOE) were enrolled. The control group had similar demographical characte...

BACKGROUND Malformations of cortical development (MCD) usually manifest in childhood with epilepsy, developmental delay and focal neurological abnormalities. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the presentation and severity of epilepsy in the different types of MCD. METHOD We evaluated the first 100 consecutive patients with a neuroimaging diagnosis of MCD. They were identified among all the high resolut...

Investigators from Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain, studied the relationship between the etiology of refractory childhood epilepsy, CSF neurotransmitters, pterins, and amino acids, and response to a ketogenic diet in 60 patients with refractory epilepsy, 83% focal and 52% idiopathic.

Epilepsy with continuous spike- and -waves during slow-wave sleep and Landau-Kleffner syndrome are two rare childhood epilepsy syndromes. The underlying pathophysiology remains unknown. The current opinions about epidemiologic risk factors, genetic predisposition, EEG and MEG findings, influence of anti-epileptic drugs, neuroradiology, positron emission tomopgraphy, evoked potentials, auto-immu...

1 Ebru Kolsal1, Ayse Serdaroglu2, Sebnem Soysal2, Esra Gurkas2, Unsal Yılmaz2 1Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Research Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, İstanbul, 2Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Ankara, Türkiye Oksipital Epilepsilerde Nörokognisyon / Neurocognition in Occipital Epilepsy Cognitive Findings in Benign Childhood Epilepsy with Occipital P...