background epilepsy, a well-known mostly idiopathic neurologic disorder, has to be correctly diagnosed and properly treated. up to now, several diagnostic approaches have been processed to determine the epileptic focus. objectives the aim of this study was to discover whether proton-mr-spectroscopic imaging (mrsi) aids in the diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy in conjunction with classical ele...

Investigators from the University of California, San Francisco studied the yield of continuous video EEG (vEEG) in diagnosing electrographic seizures in their neonatal intensive care unit.

AIM Comprising large areas of association cortex, the parietal lobe is part of an extensive synaptic network elaborately intertwined with other brain regions. We hypothesize that such widespread projections are responsible for producing inaccurate localisation readings on scalp EEG and clinical semiology in patients with parietal lobe epilepsies, as opposed to frontal or temporal lobe epilepsie...

Interictal or ictal discharges are the basis of EEG interpretation when seizure localization is the goal, but a new report suggests an alternative. It has been known for over 40 years that, when DC recordings are made, seizures may be associated with localized, very slow, sustained voltage changes, which do not oscillate (ictal DC shift).1 These voltage changes occur more or less simultaneously...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: e pilepsy is a common, chronic neurological disorder that affects more than 40 million people worldwide. epilepsy is characterized by interictal and ictal functional disturbances. the presence of interictal epileptiform discharges (ieds) can help to confirm a clinical diagnosis of epilepsy, and their location a...

PURPOSE There is a need for a seizure-detection system that can be used long-term and in home situations for early intervention and prevention of seizure related side effects including SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epileptic patients). The gold standard for monitoring epileptic seizures involves video/EEG (electro-encephalography), which is uncomfortable for the patient, as EEG electrodes a...

The value of video-electroencephalographic monitoring (EEG-VM) in evaluating patients with epileptic disorders constitutes a major research field. This study investigates the usefulness of inpatient long-term EEG-VM for pediatric neurology patients under four headings: pre-surgical evaluation; seizure classification; epileptic seizure and non-epileptic paroxysmal event differentiation; and anti...

Restructuring of healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to lockdown Epilepsy Monitoring Units (EMUs) in many hospitals. The ad-hoc taskforce International League Against (ILAE) and Federation Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) highlights detrimental effect postponing video-EEG monitoring patients with epilepsy other paroxysmal events. calls for action continue functioning emergen...

Temporal plus epilepsies are a relatively frequent undiagnosed condition in temporal lobe epilepsies. We report two cases of temporal plus epilepsies suspected on ictal clinical and scalp-video EEG findings. No invasive EEG or functional imaging was performed since clinical, neuropsychological, neuroimaging data and video-EEG recordings are concordant. Our two patients underwent temporal lobect...

OBJECTIVE Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) poses a poorly understood but considerable risk to people with uncontrolled epilepsy. There is controversy regarding the significance of postictal generalized EEG suppression as a biomarker for SUDEP risk, and it remains unknown whether postictal EEG suppression has a neurologic correlate. Here, we examined the profile of autonomic alteratio...