background: driver fatigue is one of the major implications in transportation safety and accounted for up to 40% of road accidents. this study aimed to analyze the eeg alpha power changes in partially sleep-deprived drivers while performing a simulated driving task. methods: twelve healthy male car drivers participated in an overnight study. continuous eeg and eog records were taken during driv...

RATIONALE The objective of this study was to ascertain the accuracy of clinical reports to determine the seizure frequency in children diagnosed with epilepsy. METHODS We reviewed the clinical record of 78 children (January-May of 2006) admitted to the EEG-video monitoring with epilepsy diagnosis. Clinical reports of parents and the files of EEG-video monitoring were reviewed to determine par...

BACKGROUND Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is becoming standard of care in newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). The prognostic value of the EEG and the incidence of seizures during TH are uncertain. OBJECTIVE To describe evolution of EEG background and incidence of seizures during TH, and to identify EEG patterns predictive for MRI brain injury. METHODS A total of 41 newborns w...

PURPOSE Ictal spitting is rarely reported in patients with epilepsy. More often it is observed in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and is presumed to be a lateralizing sign to language nondominant hemisphere. We report three patients with left TLE who had ictal spitting registered during prolonged video-EEG monitoring. METHODS Medical charts of all patients with medically refractory...

s 79 sclerosis (MTS) was present. Patients with MTS were more likely to have had a precipitating event after the postnatal period (P = 0.005). Conversely, 7 of 11 patients in the non-MTS group and 1 of 6 patients in the group with MTS had a possible anteor perinatal adverse event. Patients with MTS were also more likely to have a right-sided ischaemic lesion (P = 0.03). There was no difference ...

s 79 sclerosis (MTS) was present. Patients with MTS were more likely to have had a precipitating event after the postnatal period (P = 0.005). Conversely, 7 of 11 patients in the non-MTS group and 1 of 6 patients in the group with MTS had a possible anteor perinatal adverse event. Patients with MTS were also more likely to have a right-sided ischaemic lesion (P = 0.03). There was no difference ...

s 79 sclerosis (MTS) was present. Patients with MTS were more likely to have had a precipitating event after the postnatal period (P = 0.005). Conversely, 7 of 11 patients in the non-MTS group and 1 of 6 patients in the group with MTS had a possible anteor perinatal adverse event. Patients with MTS were also more likely to have a right-sided ischaemic lesion (P = 0.03). There was no difference ...

OBJECTIVE A diagnostic accuracy of conventional electroencephalography (EEG) is approximately 50% at best. We aimed to determine the accuracy of video-EEG monitoring (VEM) for a correct diagnosis and the feasibility of its clinical application. The data from all 55 patients (M:F=31:24) with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) who underwent VEM were reviewed according to the clinical history, brai...