background: epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that has a great impact on people's lives. patients with epilepsy are at increased risk for poor quality of life (qol). the objective of this study was to evaluate the qol of epileptic patients in comparison to healthy persons.   methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 52 epileptic patients from golbu region in neyshabu...

how to cite this article: allahdin s, khademvatan s, rafiei a, momen aa, rafiei r. frequency of toxoplasma and toxocara sp. antibodies in epileptic patients, in south western iran. iran j child neurol. autumn 2015;9(4):32-40. abstract objective epilepsy is a disorder of the brain characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate seizures. infectious agents are mentioned in its etiology. w...

background: epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that has a great impact on people’s lives. patients with epilepsy are at increased risk for poor quality of life (qol). the objective of this study was to evaluate the qol of epileptic patients in comparison to healthy persons.   methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 52 epileptic patients from golbu region in neyshabu...

BackgroundPsychological symptoms are common problems in chronic medical patients who often overlooked or treated incompletely. Inaccuracy timely diagnosis and treatment of these can have important consequences for patients.ObjectiveThe aim this study was to investigate the effects substance abuse on anxiety, depression, stress epileptic patients.MethodologyThe population descriptive case-contro...

PURPOSE The semiology of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) can resemble epileptic seizures, and differentiation between epileptic seizures with no EEG-correlate and PNES can be challenging even for trained experts. Therefore, there has been a search for a quantitative measure, other than EEG and semiology that could distinguish PNES from epileptic seizures. We used ECG to measure heart ...

Electroencephalographic characteristics and clinical symptoms of an avian genetic reflex epilepsy have been transferred from Fayoumi epileptic (Fepi) chickens to non-epileptic chickens by embryonic homotopic grafts of brain neuroepithelium. Transplanted tissues belonging to the prosencephalic vesicle transferred epileptic electrical features while tissues from the mesencephalic vesicle were res...

This present study was aimed to investigate the localizable diagnostic value of magnetoencephalography (MEG) combined with synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM) in childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). Thirteen CAE patients underwent MEG detection at resting state and after hyperventilation, and then the epileptic foci were located by SAM. In the thirteen CAE patients, epileptic foci were found in ...

It is important but difficult to distinguish convulsive syncope from epileptic seizure in many patients. We report a case of a man who presented to emergency department after several witnessed seizure-like episodes. He had a previous medical history of systolic heart failure and automated implantable converter defibrillator (AICD) in situ. The differential diagnoses raised were epileptic seizur...