objective epilepsy occurs with a yearly incidence of 40 per 100,000 children, of which more than 25% are resistant to drug therapy. epilepsy may occur in autoimmune diseases like lupus, celiac disease and myasthenia gravis. in this study, the relationship between celiac disease and refractory epilepsy was evaluated in children with idiopathic epilepsy. material & methods hundred-fifty-five chil...

anxiety and depression are very common in population and occur in a wide range of clinical states and is very common in epileptic patients. many recent epidemiological studies have found a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in epileptic patients. these studies found that epileptic patients suffered from depression and anxiety than those without epilepsy. the prevalence of depression or a...

background: mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (tle) is a remediable epileptic syndrome. about 40% of patients continue to have seizures after standard temporal lobectomy. it has been suggested that some of these patients could actually suffer from a more complex epileptogenic network. because a few papers have been dedicated to this topic, we decided to write an article updating this theme. methods...

objective:   intractable epilepsy is a serious neurologic problem with different etiologies. decreased levels of pyridoxal phosphate in central spinal fluid level of patients with intractable epilepsy due to pyridoxine dependency epilepsy were reported. the aim of this study was to compare plasma pyridoxal 5´-phosphate level in patients with intractable and controlled epilepsy. materials   &   ...

how to cite this article: asadi-pooya aa, torabi-nami m. knowledge and attitude towards epilepsy among biology teachers in fars province, iran. iranianjournal of child neurology 2012;6(1):13-18. objective this study investigates the awareness and perception on “epilepsy” amongst biology teachers in fars province, iran. materials & methods a sample of high school biology teachers in fars provinc...

how to cite this article: najafi mr, najafi ma, safaei a. association of family history of epilepsy with earlier age onset of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):10-15. abstract objective juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (jme) is supposedly the most frequent subtype of idiopathic generalized epilepsies (ige). the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of j...

Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures over time. A seizure is a sudden change in the electrical and chemical activity in the brain. A single seizure that does not happen again is NOT epilepsy. Most children with epilepsy live a normal life. Certain types of childhood epilepsy go away or improve with age, usually in the late teens or 20s. Nearly 80% of people with ...