OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to observe for any change in baseline seizure frequency with acupuncture in children with cerebral palsy. METHODS A randomized controlled study was conducted: Group I consisted of integrated acupuncture, tuina, and rehabilitation (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and hydrotherapy) for 12 weeks; and Group II consisted of rehabilitation (physiothera...

Background: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is an epileptic encephalopathy, characterized by drug-resistant multiple seizure types. The aim of this study was to determine if the adjunctive use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in patients with LGS and drug-resistant epilepsy is efficacious in decreasing their seizure frequency and also to investigate its safety and tolerability.   Method...

Previous techniques for seizure detection in newborn are inefficient. The main reason for their relative poor performance resides in their assumption of stationarity of the EEG. To remedy this problem, we use time-frequency distributions (TFD) to analyse and characterise the newborn EEG seizure patterns as a first step toward a time-frequency (TF) based seizure detection and classification sche...

OBJECTIVE About one third of partial seizures are refractory to treatment. Several anticonvulsant drugs have entered the market in recent decades but concerns about intolerance, drug interactions, and the safety of the drug are notable. One of these new anticonvulsants is pregabalin, a safe drug with almost no interaction with other antiepileptic drugs. METHODS In this open label clinical tri...

BACKGROUND Temporal lobectomy can lead to favorable seizure outcomes in medically-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Although most studies focus on seizure freedom after temporal lobectomy, less is known about seizure semiology in patients who "fail" surgery. Morbidity differs between seizure types that impair or spare consciousness. Among TLE patients with seizures after surgery, how doe...

conclusions the high light finding of our study was the higher frequency of seizure in infants without pvl. these findings can be explained by the inclusion criteria of our study. results totally 45 infants were studied. about 55.6% were male and 44.6% female. the mean of pregnancy duration was 32.72 - 2.78 weeks. seizure frequency was 42.2%. the pvl grading was: 28.9% mild, 20% moderate and 4....

The aim of this study was to understand the current burden of primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures (PGTCS) associated with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) as a function of seizure frequency. We analyzed data for (IGE) as a proxy measure of PGTCS. Little is known about the quality of life (QoL), health utility, productivity, healthcare resource utilization (HRU), and cost burden of PG...

In presurgical monitoring, focal seizure onset is visually assessed from intracranial electroencephalogram (EEG), typically based on the selection of channels that show strongest changes in amplitude and frequency. As epileptic dynamics increasingly considered to reflect potentially distributed neural networks, it becomes important also assess interrelationships between channels. We propose a w...