Although cognitive impairment is one of the common problems among many patients with epilepsy, it still not well defined in childhood absence epilepsy. Here, authors assess and executive function epilepsy a group school‐age children Egypt. They discuss need for early identification neuropsychological dysfunction so that appropriate management can be implemented.

BACKGROUND The history of sickness absence has been found to predict future sickness absence. AIMS To establish the review period of historical sickness absence data that is needed to predict future sickness absence. METHODS The individual number of days and episodes of sickness absence were ascertained for 762 hospital employees from 2004 to 2008 inclusive. Past sickness absence was includ...

The low-temperature form of the equilibrium relativistic mass distribution is subject to the Galilean limit by taking c → ∞. In this limit the relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution passes to the usual nonrelativistic form and the Dulong-Petit law is recovered.

Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies: Clinical Syndromes and Pathogenesis. Most kinds of idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE) such as juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), absence epilepsy in infancy (CAE), myoclonic absence epilepsy (MAE), juvenile absence epilepsy

PURPOSE To investigate possible neuronal dysfunction of the thalamus in patients suffering from typical absence epilepsy, using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). Special attention was paid to levels of N-acetylaspartate (NAA) and creatine (Cr), and to the NAA/Cr ratio. METHODS MRS was performed over the right and left thalamus in nine patients suffering from typical absence epilepsy, and...

The cases are described of eight children, five of them girls, who had epilepsy with myoclonic absences. The mean age of onset was 4.9 years. Brief episodes of loss of awareness with bilateral clonic jerking of the upper limbs were associated with rhythmic 3 cycles/second spike-wave discharges on electroencephalogram. Generalised tonic-clonic or astatic seizures, or both, also occurred in seven...