Epilepsy - Physiopathology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Vagus nerve stimulation for refractory epilepsy in children: More to VNS than seizure frequency reduction.

13 Dec 2009 PURPOSE: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is used increasingly as adjunctive therapy for refractory epilepsy. Studies of VNS in children report mainly seizure frequency reduction as a measure of efficacy and clinical details are often scanty. We report ... Read more...

Sequential processing of lexical, grammatical, and phonological information within Broca's area.

14 Oct 2009 Words, grammar, and phonology are linguistically distinct, yet their neural substrates are difficult to distinguish in macroscopic brain regions. We investigated whether they can be separated in time and space at the circuit level using intracranial ... Read more...

Intracranial EEG reveals a time- and frequency-specific role for the right inferior frontal gyrus and primary motor cortex in stopping initiated responses.

5 Oct 2009 Inappropriate response tendencies may be stopped via a specific fronto/basal ganglia/primary motor cortical network. We sought to characterize the functional role of two regions in this putative stopping network, the right inferior frontal gyrus ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Epilepsy - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Vagus nerve stimulation for refractory epilepsy in children: More to VNS than seizure frequency reduction. 13 Dec 2009
• Astrocyte-neuron interactions: implications for epilepsy. 18 Oct 2009
• Sequential processing of lexical, grammatical, and phonological information within Broca's area. 14 Oct 2009
• Neuroscience. The speaking brain. 14 Oct 2009
• Intracranial EEG reveals a time- and frequency-specific role for the right inferior frontal gyrus and primary motor cortex in stopping initiated responses. 5 Oct 2009
• Hughlings Jackson's suggestion for the treatment of epilepsy. 4 Oct 2009
• Prediction by modeling that epilepsy may be caused by very small functional changes in ion channels. 29 Sep 2009
• Task-free presurgical mapping using functional magnetic resonance imaging intrinsic activity. 29 Sep 2009
• Spikes and epilepsy. 29 Sep 2009
• Advances in spike localization with EEG dipole modeling. 29 Sep 2009
• Magnetoencephalography and magnetic source imaging in epilepsy. 29 Sep 2009
• Automatic EEG spike detection. 29 Sep 2009
• "All that spikes is not fits", mistaking the woods for the trees: the interictal spikes--an "EEG chameleon" in the interface disorders of brain and mind: a critical review. 29 Sep 2009
• Epileptiform discharges in psychiatric patients: a controversy in need of resurrection. 29 Sep 2009
• An animal model to study the clinical significance of interictal spiking. 29 Sep 2009
• Epileptiform EEG spikes and their functional significance. 29 Sep 2009
• The interictal spike: what does it mean? 29 Sep 2009
• Animal models of focal cortical dysplasia and tuberous sclerosis complex: recent progress toward clinical applications. 29 Sep 2009
• Clinical, functional, and neurophysiologic assessment of dysplastic cortical networks: Implications for cortical functioning and surgical management. 29 Sep 2009
• The intriguing case of Christina the Astonishing. 13 Sep 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