conclusions attribution retraining improved mental health in the epileptic children in our study. it, therefore, seems to be an appropriate intervention for promoting the mental health of children. results the findings showed that the experimental group, in comparison with the control group, experienced a reduction in physical symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, and depression a...

UNLABELLED Background: Epilepsy is the most common neurological disease in children. The patient must take antiepileptic drug for controlling the seizure at least 2 years. Many previous studies show the effect of antiepileptic drug to vitamin D status and bone health. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and bone mineral density in the children who are taking antiepilepti...

1 Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, P.O. Box 7897, Riyadh 11159, Saudi Arabia 2 Clinic of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Medical School, University of Salerno, S.Giovanni e Ruggi Hospital, Largo d’Ippocrate, 84100 Salerno, Italy 3 Divisions of Child and Adolescent Neurology, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW No. W4...

Despite the well-acknowledged link between autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and epilepsy, prevalence significance of electroencephalogram (EEG) changes in epileptic children absence clinical seizures remains underdetermined. Aim. The primary goal this study is to report EEG abnormalities non-epileptic or pre-epileptic autistic children, investigate their association with a set pre-determined ri...

BackgroundAbout 15 to 40% of children with seizures are refractory to standard anti-epileptic drugs and for such patients, other treatments such as surgery and the ketogenic diet can reduce seizure frequency. Melatonin is a natural pineal gland hormone. The use of melatonin for controlling pediatric seizures is still controversial. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of melatonin on seizure...

We aimed to investigate and compare the effects of chronic antiepileptic therapy on bone health in pediatric patients using quantitative ultrasound of the phalanges (QUS) and controlling for potential confounding factors, particularly nutrient intake. The amplitude-dependent speed of sound (Ad-SoS) was measured in 33 epileptic children and 32 healthy children aged 6.5 ± 3.1 and 6.3 ± 1.1 (mean ...

PURPOSE To establish whether the disability in benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) is the result of the number of seizures, the anti-epileptic therapy or is an inherent characteristic of the syndrome itself. METHODS Thirty-six children with BECTS were tested for cognitive functions prior to commencing treatment with anti-epileptic drugs, and the findings were compared with thos...

Sometimes childhood epilepsy may present with an acute onset of catastrophic seizures, rapidly progressing to intractable status epilepticus with poor outcome. One such example is postencephalitic epilepsy (1), which is a rare epileptic condition and is characterized by different names, such as acute encephalitis with refractory repetitive partial seizures (2), idiopathic catastrophic epileptic...

background: the physiologic function of carnitine, oxidation of fatty acid and lipid  metabolism, is severely affected in carnitine deficiency, secondary forms of which lead to renal tubular disorders and chronic renal failure. reduction in serum carnitine has been frequently reported in patients and experimental animals treated with antiepileptic drugs, one of which, valproic acid has consiste...

Mozart K.448 has been shown to improve cognitive function, leading to what is known as the Mozart Effect. Our previous work reveals positive effects of Mozart K.448 in reducing epileptiform discharges in epileptic children. In this study, we evaluated the effect of Mozart K.545 and compared the effects with those of Mozart K.448 on epileptiform discharges in children with epilepsy. Thirty-nine ...