Epilepsy - Etiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Epilepsy in later life.

29 Sep 2009 Epilepsy is most likely to develop in later life. The burden of this disorder on health-care resources will rise further as the world's population continues to age. Making a secure diagnosis can be challenging because the clinical manifestations of ... Read more...

Prediction by modeling that epilepsy may be caused by very small functional changes in ion channels.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To use computer simulation to perform a "genetic sensitivity" analysis to predict which genes are best positioned to increase risk as well as to predict functionally how variants in these genes might increase network excitability. ... Read more...

Hemispherotomy: efficacy and analysis of seizure recurrence.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECT: Hemispherotomy generally is performed in hemiparetic patients with severe, intractable epilepsy arising from one cerebral hemisphere. In this study, the authors evaluate the efficacy of hemispherotomy and present an analysis of the factors ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Epilepsy - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Epilepsy in later life. 29 Sep 2009
• Prediction by modeling that epilepsy may be caused by very small functional changes in ion channels. 29 Sep 2009
• Hemispherotomy: efficacy and analysis of seizure recurrence. 29 Sep 2009
• Minimally invasive magnetic resonance imaging-guided stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation for epileptogenic hypothalamic hamartomas. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical reasoning: cerebral cavernous malformations. 30 Aug 2009
• Efficacy and tolerability of zonisamide as add-on in brain tumor-related epilepsy: preliminary report. 30 Aug 2009
• Uncoupling of astrogliosis from epileptogenesis in adenosine kinase (ADK) transgenic mice. 11 Aug 2009
• Incidence of newly diagnosed epileptic seizures in a French South Indian Ocean Island, La Réunion (EPIREUN). 6 Aug 2009
• Kindling, long-term potentiation and spatial memory performance. 30 Jul 2009
• Common medical comorbidities associated with cerebral palsy. 30 Jul 2009
• Functional outcome after language mapping for insular World Health Organization Grade II gliomas in the dominant hemisphere: experience with 24 patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Chronic epilepsy associated with temporal tumors: long-term surgical outcome. 30 Jul 2009
• Brain tumors in the mesial temporal lobe: long-term oncological outcome. 30 Jul 2009
• Tumor-associated epilepsy. 30 Jul 2009
• Seizures in Alzheimer disease: who, when, and how common? 30 Jul 2009
• Prognostic implications of periodic epileptiform discharges. 30 Jul 2009
• Transcriptome profiling reveals TGF-beta signaling involvement in epileptogenesis. 13 Jul 2009
• Epilepsy and temporal lobe injury after skull base proton beam therapy. 30 Jun 2009
• Epilepsy in children with infantile thiamine deficiency. 29 Jun 2009
• A rescuable folding defective Nav1.1 (SCN1A) sodium channel mutant causes GEFS+: common mechanism in Nav1.1 related epilepsies? 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Epilepsy'

Definition: A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure), (2) etiology (e.g., post-traumatic), (3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure), (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns (e.g., nocturnal epilepsy). (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p313)

Descriptor UI: D004827

Alternative terms: Epilepsy; Epilepsies; Seizure Disorder; Seizure Disorders; Seizures, Epileptic; Epileptic Seizures; Epileptic Seizure; Seizure, Epileptic; Single Seizure; Seizure, Single; Seizures, Single; Single Seizures; Epilepsy, Cryptogenic; Cryptogenic Epilepsies; Cryptogenic Epilepsy; Epilepsies, Cryptogenic; Aura; Auras; Awakening Epilepsy; Epilepsy, Awakening;

Related Mesh Headings: Seizures;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.228.140.490;

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics