Investigators from University of Gaziantep, Turkey described the clinical and EEG findings of patients with benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) experiencing postictal Todd paralysis.

Pain is a most unusual manifestation of epilepsy, and it is rarer still for chest pain to be the primary manifestation of a seizure disorder. We report here a 6 year old boy with epileptic chest pain--'chest epilepsy'--an entity not previously described in children.

This paper examines three respects in which the study of epileptic absence seizures promises to inform our understanding of consciousness. Firstly, it has the potential to bear on debates concerning the behavioural and cognitive functions associated with consciousness. Secondly, it has the potential to illuminate the relationship between background states (or 'levels') of consciousness and the ...

OBJECTIVE To produce practical evidence-based guidelines for the management of paediatric epilepsy in secondary care settings. DESIGN Question-specific systematic literature review and local service audit. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Grade of recommendation for specific management issues. RESULTS There is little good quality research to support many existing epilepsy guidelines for secondary ca...

In recent years several new anti-epileptic drugs have been introduced, also for the treatment of childhood epilepsy. A major concern is their effect on learning and cognitive development. Testing the genuine effects on cognition of the anti-epileptic drugs is methodologically not easy. At this moment there are very few controlled trials that systematically examine the cognitive side effects of ...

High prevalence of eating epilepsy has previously been reported from the Central Province of Sri Lanka, though it is considered to be a rare condition in the rest of the world. We prospectively studied 526 patients in a different province for seizure provoking factors. Eating epilepsy was found among 28 patients (5.3%) supporting previous observations.

Investigators from Lingfield, Surrey, UK; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK, and other centers, conducted psychological assessment including measures of IQ, working memory and processing speed in 85 (74%) of 115 school aged children with active epilepsy (a seizure in the past year and/or on AEDs) from a population-based sample, without exclusion for inte...

The factual knowledge of epilepsy is often insufficient among patients with this disorder. Compliance problems due to ignorance are common, and counselling is extremely important. We have developed a simple 1-day, low-cost group education programme for patients with epilepsy, intended to be suitable in routine care. The programme aims to help patients to achieve an improved understanding of the...

Epilepsy adversely affects the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children living with it. Even though almost 80% of children with epilepsy live in developing countries very little research has been conducted with the specific population. The present study took place in Albania and aimed to investigate parental perceptions of the HRQoL of their children with epilepsy. Considering the wel...

symptoms; (2) on the varying interpretation physicians have placed on those symptoms. These remarks refer exclusively to the physical phenomena. There was nothing in the mental symptoms calling for any special notice. The subject was an unmarried man, aged 31, who had been farming in the Colonies for some time past. Family History.?His father suffered from queer kind of seizures, in which he tu...