how to cite this article: pattanayak rd, sagar r. psychiatric aspects of childhood epilepsy. iran j child neurol 2012;6(2):9-18. childhood epilepsy is a chronic, recurrent disorder of unprovoked seizures. theonset of epilepsy in childhood has significant implications for brain growth anddevelopment. seizures may impair the ongoing neurodevelopmental processes and compromise the child’s intellec...

psychiatric disorders are very prevalent in epilepsy, 30 to 50 percent of epileptic patients suffer from psychiatric problems. on the other hand, many psychiatric disorders such as dissociative disorder, sleep disorder, impulse control disorder and cyclic disorders have clinical features like epilepsy. therefore, differential dagnosis is very important in dealing with epilepsy. epilepsy has man...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurologic diseases around the world and more significantly in Iran (0.4-1 % worldwide and 5% in Iran). Almost one-third of these patients suffer from treatment-resistant epilepsy, which reduces their quality of life by recurring epileptic onsets. There are different approaches for the treatment of both treatment-resistant and treatment-nonresistant epilepsy, ...

Purpose10-year retrospective study to assess burden of illness in individuals with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) identified from German healthcare data.MethodsPatients TSC were by International Classification Diseases code Q85.1. Patients epilepsy diagnosis or antiseizure medication (ASM) prescription after diagnosis.ResultsUsing data 2016 (final year), 100 patients (mean [range] age: 38 [1–...

background previous studies provided inconsistent associations of smoking, stroke, and serious psychological distress (spd) with epilepsy while urban-rural differences in the associations of risk factors with epilepsy are not well documented. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the associations of lifestyle, health conditions, and spd with epilepsy and to examine whether the associations di...

abstract aim and background: evaluation of cognition is fundamental for every comprehensive epilepsy program. we sought to conduct this study to assess memory state of patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy before decision for epilepsy surgery. method and materials: in a case-control study, 20 patients with right temporal lobe epilepsy and 20 patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy w...

how to cite this article: shamsaei f, cheraghi f, zamani ghr. comparing mental health of school-age children with and without epilepsy: a case control study. iran j child neurol. summer 2016; 10(3):35-41.   abstract objective mental health problems frequently occur in children with epilepsy but the diagnosis is frequently missed and therapeutic opportunities are often lost. the aim of this stud...

epilepsy is a disorder categorized by recurrent seizures and leads to changes in neuronal death and neurogenesis. recently the search for new targets in the therapy of epilepsy has focused on brain inflammation because brain inflammation and the associate blood brain barrier damage appears to be basic part of epilepsy pathophysiology-erythropoietin (epo) regulates biological processes counting ...