Seizures
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Clinical features, surgical treatment, and long-term outcome in adult patients with moyamoya disease. Clinical article.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECT: The object of this study was to report the clinical features, surgical treatment, and long-term outcomes in adults with moyamoya phenomenon treated at a single institution in the US. METHODS: Forty-three adult patients with moyamoya disease ... Read more...

Efficacy and safety of 800 and 1200 mg eslicarbazepine acetate as adjunctive treatment in adults with refractory partial-onset seizures.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) as adjunctive therapy in adults with partial-onset seizures. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multicenter study consisting of an ... Read more...

Death in a toddler following endosulfan ingestion.

30 Oct 2009 INTRODUCTION: Endosulfan, an organochlorine insecticide widely used in agriculture, is rapidly absorbed following ingestion, inhalation, or skin exposure. Poisonings rarely result in morbidity and mortality. Symptoms occur rapidly following exposure ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Seizures'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Clinical features, surgical treatment, and long-term outcome in adult patients with moyamoya disease. Clinical article. 30 Oct 2009
• Efficacy and safety of 800 and 1200 mg eslicarbazepine acetate as adjunctive treatment in adults with refractory partial-onset seizures. 30 Oct 2009
• Death in a toddler following endosulfan ingestion. 30 Oct 2009
• Astrocyte-neuron interactions: implications for epilepsy. 18 Oct 2009
• Cortical deactivation induced by subcortical network dysfunction in limbic seizures. 12 Oct 2009
• Reflections: neurology and the humanities: reflections for October. 11 Oct 2009
• Correlation of enzyme-inducing anticonvulsant use with outcome of patients with glioblastoma. 11 Oct 2009
• Water intoxication following labour and surgery: blaming oxytocin--the easy way out? 29 Sep 2009
• A 58 year old woman with a corpus callosum nodule at autopsy. 29 Sep 2009
• 22-year-old girl with status epilepticus and progressive neurological symptoms. 29 Sep 2009
• [6/12. Convulsions in childhood] 29 Sep 2009
• Seizure relapse and development of drug resistance following long-term seizure remission. 29 Sep 2009
• Nerve growth factor attenuates proliferation of astrocytes via the p75 neurotrophin receptor. 29 Sep 2009
• The electrocortical effects of enflurane: experiment and theory. 29 Sep 2009
• Cavernous angioma: a clinical study of 35 cases with review of the literature. 29 Sep 2009
• Interhemispheric propagation of seizures in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. 28 Sep 2009
• Expanding the clinical and neuroradiologic phenotype of primary microcephaly due to ASPM mutations. 20 Sep 2009
• Levetiracetam monotherapy for childhood occipital epilepsy of gastaut. 13 Sep 2009
• Interrater reliability of EEG-video monitoring. 13 Sep 2009
• Sequelae due to bacterial meningitis among African children: a systematic literature review. 12 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Seizures'

Definition: Clinical or subclinical disturbances of cortical function due to a sudden, abnormal, excessive, and disorganized discharge of brain cells. Clinical manifestations include abnormal motor, sensory and psychic phenomena. Recurrent seizures are usually referred to as EPILEPSY or "seizure disorder."

Descriptor UI: D012640

Alternative terms: Seizures; Seizure; Seizures, Visual; Seizure, Visual; Visual Seizure; Visual Seizures; Convulsive Seizures; Convulsive Seizure; Seizure, Convulsive; Seizures, Motor; Motor Seizure; Motor Seizures; Seizure, Motor; Seizures, Convulsive; Jacksonian Seizure; Seizure, Jacksonian; Seizures, Auditory; Auditory Seizure; Auditory Seizures; Seizure, Auditory; Seizures, Clonic; Clonic Seizure; Clonic Seizures; Seizure, Clonic; Seizures, Focal; Focal Seizure; Focal Seizures; Seizure, Focal; Seizures, Generalized; Generalized Seizure; Generalized Seizures; Seizure, Generalized; Seizures, Gustatory; Gustatory Seizure; Gustatory Seizures; Seizure, Gustatory; Seizures, Olfactory; Olfactory Seizure; Olfactory Seizures; Seizure, Olfactory; Convulsion, Non-Epileptic; Convulsion, Non Epileptic; Convulsions, Non-Epileptic; Non-Epileptic Convulsion; Non-Epileptic Convulsions; Seizures, Somatosensory; Seizure, Somatosensory; Somatosensory Seizure; Somatosensory Seizures; Seizures, Tonic; Seizure, Tonic; Tonic Seizure; Tonic Seizures; Seizures, Tonic-Clonic; Seizure, Tonic-Clonic; Seizures, Tonic Clonic; Tonic-Clonic Seizure; Tonic-Clonic Seizures; Seizures, Vertiginous; Seizure, Vertiginous; Vertiginous Seizure; Vertiginous Seizures; Seizures, Vestibular; Seizure, Vestibular; Vestibular Seizure; Vestibular Seizures; Seizures, Sensory; Seizure, Sensory; Sensory Seizure; Sensory Seizures; Convulsions; Convulsion;

Related Mesh Headings: Anticonvulsants; Convulsants; Eclampsia; Epilepsy; Kindling, Neurologic;

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: C10.228.140.490.631; C10.597.742; C23.888.592.742;

History Note: 1979; for CONVULSIVE SEIZURES & SEIZURES, CONVULSIVE use CONVULSIONS 1998-1999; for JACKSONIAN SEIZURE use EPILEPSY, PARTIAL 1992-1999

Technical Notes: note other specific seizure terms in MeSH; audiogenic or acoustic seizures = REFLEX EPILEPSY, AUDIOGENIC