Epilepsy - Pathology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Hughlings Jackson's suggestion for the treatment of epilepsy.

4 Oct 2009 John Hughlings Jackson articulated a neurologic method of systematically evaluating the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of every patient with neurologic disease. He used this mode of analysis to develop a theory of the physiology of epilepsy. We ... Read more...

Relationships between essential cortical language sites and subcortical pathways.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECT: Maps produced using either electrical stimulation or functional imaging have demonstrated a distributed network of cortical regions involved in expressive and receptive language tasks. The pattern of connectivity among components of this ... Read more...

Task-free presurgical mapping using functional magnetic resonance imaging intrinsic activity.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECT: Low-frequency components of the spontaneous functional MR imaging signal provide information about the intrinsic functional and anatomical organization of the brain. The ability to use such methods in individual patients may provide a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Epilepsy - Pathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Hughlings Jackson's suggestion for the treatment of epilepsy. 4 Oct 2009
• Relationships between essential cortical language sites and subcortical pathways. 29 Sep 2009
• Task-free presurgical mapping using functional magnetic resonance imaging intrinsic activity. 29 Sep 2009
• Animal models of focal cortical dysplasia and tuberous sclerosis complex: recent progress toward clinical applications. 29 Sep 2009
• From human tissue to animal models: Insights into the pathogenesis of cortical dysplasia. 29 Sep 2009
• Magnetic source imaging. 3 Sep 2009
• More than meets the eyes in focal epilepsy. 30 Aug 2009
• Focal cortical dysplasia type II: biological features and clinical perspectives. 30 Aug 2009
• Neurologic aspects of MECP2 gene duplication in male patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Diffusion-weighted imaging: not all that glitters is gold. 30 Aug 2009
• Astrocytic dysfunction in epileptogenesis: consequence of altered potassium and glutamate homeostasis? 24 Aug 2009
• Epilepsy surgery for insular lesions. 10 Aug 2009
• Reflections on the epileptic encephalopathies. 30 Jul 2009
• Insular cortex epilepsy: an overview. 30 Jul 2009
• Kindling as a model of human epilepsy. 30 Jul 2009
• Treating epilepsy via adaptive neurostimulation: a reinforcement learning approach. 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
• Alterations of the microvascular network in sclerotic hippocampi from patients with epilepsy. 30 Jul 2009
• Dynamic connectivity map on ECoG: a new computed signature in defining epileptogenic zone. 22 Jul 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