The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of epilepsy among students of the Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. This cross sectional epidemiological study was performed on 4762 of 19,988 Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University students in the academic year 2007-2008. Participants that answered "epilepsy" to the question "Do you have any disease diagnosed by a doctor?" in a questionnaire i...

Introduction: The management of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) during pregnancy is a matter of continued debate. Imatinib therapy for CML might be associated with fetal anomalies and discontinuation of the drug with disease progression. We present the achievement and management of a pregnancy in a woman with both CML and epilepsy. We describe the first uneventful pregnancy and successful delive...

PURPOSE Cornelia de Lange (CdLS) syndrome is characterized by multiple congenital anomalies and mental retardation. Epilepsy is a clinical feature found in about 20% of cases, but there are no data about its electroclinical features and long-term outcome. METHODS we describe a clinical series of fourteen Caucasian CdLS paediatric patients who developed epilepsy, with special reference to the ...

The objective of this study was to assess the effect on health-related quality of life of acupuncture and sham acupuncture as adjunctive treatment in intractable epilepsy. We performed a randomized controlled trail with two parallel treatment arms at The National Center for Epilepsy in Norway, a comprehensive epilepsy center. Thirty-four patients with long-standing drug resistant epilepsy compl...

OBJECTIVE Population-based studies on infantile epilepsy syndromes are scarce. Our aim was to provide syndrome-specific data on the incidence and outcome of epilepsy in a population-based cohort of infants with epilepsy onset in the first year. METHODS Included were all infants born in 1997 through 2006 whose epileptic seizures started before 12 months of age and who were residents of the Hel...

The management of a group of epilepsy patients from primary care, in a geographical area with clear epilepsy management guidelines and secondary care clinics is surveyed. Suggestions are made to improve liaison between primary and secondary care as well as epilepsy management in primary care. All 42 local primary care practices were invited to take part in this project. A study day providing a ...

Neuroendocrine dysfunction is prevalent among women with epilepsy or bipolar disorder. The manifestations of neuroendocrine dysfunction can include insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, dyslipidemia, and obesity—all of which are risk factors for coronary artery disease. Hyperandrogenism, another common neuroendocrine finding, is associated with anovulation, fertility loss, and altered sex drive...

The ketogenic diet has been used for the treatment of epilepsy in childhood for almost 100 years. Although initial use was wide, the advent of antiepileptic drugs led to reduced utilisation. However, an apparently 'forgotten treatment' gained further popularity in the early 1990s when significant individuals gained benefit. This aside, although there are many open label trials to suggest benefi...

anxiety and depression are very common in population and occur in a wide range of clinical states and is very common in epileptic patients. many recent epidemiological studies have found a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in epileptic patients. these studies found that epileptic patients suffered from depression and anxiety than those without epilepsy. the prevalence of depression or a...

Some patients with epilepsy not controlled by medication will benefit from surgical removal of the seizure focus in the brain, if the seizure focus can be identified. The seizure focus has to be localized in one hemisphere only. This is referred to as refractory complex partial epilepsy. The problem is that identification of the seizure focus is not easily accomplished. One way to identify the ...