Assessing the impact of Dravet syndrome on caregivers’ quality of life and perceived burden in Poland by Jan Domaradzki, Dariusz Walkowiak, Association for People with Severe Refractory Epilepsy DRAVET.PL

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Caregivers’ experiences and challenges of the diagnostic odyssey in Dravet syndrome by Jan Domaradzki, Dariusz Walkowiak, the Association for People with Severe Refractory Epilepsy Dravet.pl

“…Results 106 family caregivers connected with the Association for People with Severe Refractory Epilepsy DRAVET.PL completed an anonymised, self-administered, computer-assisted online survey on parents’ experiences of the diagnostic journey conducted from March to June 2024. …”
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Rufinamide (inovelon) in the treatment of Lennox–gastaut syndrome (a review of literature) by К. Yu. Мukhin, О. A. Pylaeva

Subjects: “…epilepsy…”
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Could sudden cardiac death in epilepsy be related to the occurrence of thalamic dysfunction or anatomic change?... by Fulvio A. Scorza, Lineu Calderazzo, Marly de Albuquerque, Ricardo M. Arida, Antonio-Carlos G. de Almeida, Esper A. Cavalheiro

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Benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes: evolutive clinical, cognitive and EEG aspects Epilepsia benigna da infância com pontas centrotemporais: aspectos evolutivos clínicos, cognitivos e do EEG by Glória M.A.S Tedrus, Lineu C Fonseca, Dioraci P Castilho, Elizabeth M.C Pacheco, Amanda A Campregher, Marina C Bittar

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Síndrome de personalidade interictal na epilepsia do lobo temporal não-dominante: relato de caso Interictal personality syndrome in temporal lobe epilepsy: case report by PAULO C. TREVISOL-BITTENCOURT, ANDRÉ R. TROIANO

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Hospitalisation rates for epilepsy, asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes in 796 190 school-aged children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities: a record-linkage cohort study by Angela Henderson, Sally-Ann Cooper, Craig Melville, Michael Fleming, Gillian S Smith, Jill Pell, Deborah Cairns

“…After adjusting for prevalence, pupils with intellectual disabilities and epilepsy had more epilepsy-related admissions than their peers (adjusted Hazard Ratio (aHR) 2.24, 95% CI 1.97, 2.55). …”
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First, do no harm: the risks of overtreating children with epilepsy Primeiramente, não causar dano: os riscos do excesso de medicações no tratamento da epilepsia na infância by Eunice Chuang, Marilisa M. Guerreiro, Sara Y. Tsuchie, Angelica Santucci, Carlos A. M. Guerreiro, Maria Augusta Montenegro

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Association of lamotrigine and valproate in refractory epilepsies of children and adolescents Associação de lamotrigina e valproato de sódio no tratamento de epilepsia refratária em crianças e adolescentes by Karen P. Grisotto, Isac Bruck, Sérgio A. Antoniuk, Lúcia H.C. Santos

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Corrigendum: Riluzole attenuates acute neural injury and reactive gliosis, hippocampal-dependent cognitive impairments and spontaneous recurrent generalized seizures in a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy by Thomas Kyllo, Dominic Allocco, Laine Vande Hei, Heike Wulff, Jeffrey D. Erickson

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Correlation of serum screening and neuroimaging studies: A comparative analysis for diagnostic evaluation of neurocysticercosis among people with epilepsy attending mental health clinics in selected district hospitals of Tanzania. by Charles E Makasi, Bernard Ngowi, Andrew Kilale, Godfrey Guga, Michael J Mahande, Johnson Mshiu, Abisai Kisinda, Blandina T Mmbaga

“…<h4>Background</h4>Involvement of Taenia solium cysts in the nervous system (Neurocysticercosis -NCC), is responsible for about 30% of preventable acquired epilepsy among people with epilepsy in endemic areas. …”
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Seizure First Aid Training For people with Epilepsy (SAFE) frequently attending emergency departments and their significant others: results of a UK multi-centre randomised controlled pilot trial by Steve Goodacre, Myfanwy Morgan, Dyfrig A Hughes, Adam J Noble, Leone Ridsdale, Anthony G Marson, Emily A Holmes, Dee Snape, Sarah Nevitt, Catrin Tudur-Smith, Mark Buchanan, Jane McVicar, Elizabeth MacCallum

“…Objective To determine the feasibility and optimal design of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of Seizure First Aid Training For Epilepsy (SAFE).Design Pilot RCT with embedded microcosting.Setting Three English hospital emergency departments (EDs).Participants Patients aged ≥16 with established epilepsy reporting ≥2 ED visits in the prior 12 months and their significant others (SOs).Interventions Patients (and their SOs) were randomly allocated (1:1) to SAFE plus treatment-as-usual (TAU) or TAU alone. …”
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Iconographic Analysis of Scenes of the Miracle of Healing Patients with Epilepsy in Manuscripts of Florence Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. 6.23 and Paris Bibliothéque National de France Grec 74 by Fatma Yaşar, Zeliha Demirel Gökalp

“…The subject of this article is to provide an iconographic analysis of patients with epilepsy healing scenes. It is illustrated in the inventory numbers of manuscripts Plut 6.23 and Grec 74. …”
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Avaliação de parâmetros cardíacos em animais com epilepsia: possível causa de morte súbita? Analysis of cardiac parameters in animals with epilepsy: possible cause of sudden death? by Diego Basile Colugnati, Paulo Alberto Paes Gomes, Ricardo Mario Arida, Marly de Albuquerque, Roberta Monterazzo Cysneiros, Esper Abrão Cavalheiro, Fulvio Alexandre Scorza

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Case report: Clinical and genetic characterization of a novel ALDH7A1 variant causing pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy, developmental delay, and intellectual disability in two siblings by Mustafa A. Salih, Albandary AlBakheet, Rawan Almass, Ahlam A. A. Hamed, Ali AlOdaib, Namik Kaya

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The impact of certain anti-seizure medications on cognitive status, behavior, anxiety, and depression in school-aged children with newly diagnosed epilepsy: A six-month follow-up study by Rogač Željka, Dimitrijević Aleksandar, Andrić Ivana, Miranović Vesna, Stevanović Dejan

“…Previously, we have shown that six months after initiating monotherapy in school-age children with new-onset uncomplicated epilepsy, minimal changes in cognition and significant symptoms of anxiety, depression, and behavioral changes were observed. …”
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Assessment of the epilepsy treatment gap in two cities of south-east of Brazil A lacuna de tratamento em epilepsia em duas cidades do sudeste do Brasil by Ana Lúcia Andrade Noronha, Lúcia Helena Marques, Moacir Alves Borges, Fernando Cendes, Carlos Alberto Mantovani Guerreiro, Li Min Li

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Application of a novel three-day repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy in dogs: single-blinded randomised sham-controlled clinical trial by Marios Charalambous, Delia Hünting, Nina Meyerhoff, Friederike Twele, Sebastian Meller, Sebastian Meller, Holger A. Volk, Holger A. Volk

“…The objective was to assess the antiseizure effect and safety of a novel three-day rTMS protocol in dogs with drug-resistant idiopathic epilepsy. A single-blinded, randomized, sham-controlled clinical trial was conducted by randomly allocating 20 dogs with drug-resistant idiopathic epilepsy or epilepsy of unknown origin into active (n = 10) or sham (n = 10) rTMS. …”
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Mimosapudica L. aqueous extract protects mice against pilocarpine–picrotoxin kindling-induced temporal lobe epilepsy, oxidative stress, and alteration in GABAergic/cholinergic pathways and BDNF expression by Hart Mann Alain Youbi Mambou, Simon Pale, Orelien Sylvain Mtopi Bopda, Vanessa Tita Jugha, Nji Seraphin Ombel Musa, Tambong Ako Ojongnkpot, Bertrand Yuwong Wanyu, Raymond Bess Bila, Rashed N. Herqash, Abdelaaty A. Shahat, Germain Sotoing Taiwe

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Generation of induced pluripotent stem cell line, NIMHi013-A, from PBMCs of a female child with epilepsy carrying a novel SCN1A variant by Gautham Arunachal, Madhura Milind Nimonkar, Pavithra Mahadeva, Ramya Sukrutha, Kenchaiah Raghavendra, Ghati K. Chetan, Manjunatha M. Venkataswamy, Bhupesh Mehta, Yogananda S. Markandeya

“…The iPSC line NIMHi013-A was generated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a paediatric patient with drug resistant epilepsy. The proband was found to have a likely pathogenic missense variant in the SCN1A gene in heterozygous state, which segregated in the affected in dominant fashion. …”
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