Dietary therapies are established as beneficial for symptomatic generalized epilepsies such as Lennox-Gastaut syndrome; however, the outcome for idiopathic generalized epilepsy has never been specifically reported. The efficacy of the ketogenic and modified Atkins diet for childhood and juvenile absence epilepsy was evaluated from both historical literature review and patients treated at Johns ...

OBJECTIVE Simple Febrile Seizure (SFS) is the most common seizure disorder in childhood, and is frequently described as inoffensive disorder. Nevertheless, there is evidence suggesting the association between neonatal febrile seizures and hippocampal abnormalities in adulthood. This study was conducted at evaluating the hippocampal expression of pro-apoptotic Bax and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 protei...

INTRODUCTION Clinical and outcome profiles of childhood seizures can be different in resource limited settings where neurologists face lots of challenges in diagnosis and management of seizure. This study was conducted to investigate the clinical profile, causes and outcome of afebrile seizures in children in resource limited settings. METHODS This was a prospective hospital based study. Chil...

PURPOSE To study the relationship between seizure-related factors, non-verbal intelligence, and socio-economic status (SES) in a population-based sample of children with epilepsy. METHODS The latest ILAE International classifications of epileptic seizures and syndromes were used to classify seizure types and epileptic syndromes in all 6-12 year old children (N=198) with epilepsy in Hordaland ...

PURPOSE Idiopathic focal epilepsies in childhood including benign childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (BEOP) or benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BCECTS) are characterized by specific focal electrographic patterns as the name indicates. Generalized spike-wave discharges in children with idiopathic focal epilepsy can suggest a neurobiological continuum with the idiop...

PURPOSE To evaluate the demographic and clinical manifestations and postsurgical outcome of childhood-onset mesial temporal sclerosis and temporal lobe epilepsy (MTS-TLE) and establishing the potential differences as compared to the patients with adult-onset MTS-TLE. METHOD In this retrospective study all patients with a clinical diagnosis of medically refractory TLE due to mesial temporal sc...

patients and methods the study adopts a quasi-experimental research design. a total of 102 mothers of children presenting with febrile seizure and admitted to a teaching hospital in iran were equally assigned to three groups: group i received no intervention (control group), group ii received a febrile seizure information pamphlet, and group iii received the febrile seizure information pamphlet...