Ketogenic diets and β-hydroxybutyrate in the prevention and treatment of diabetic kidney disease: current progress and future perspectives by Junle Li, Wanhong He, Qianshi Wu, Yuanyuan Qin, Changfang Luo, Zhuojun Dai, Yang Long, Pijun Yan, Wei Huang, Ling Cao

“…KD have been used to treat epilepsy, obesity, type-2 diabetes mellitus, polycystic ovary syndrome, cancers, and other diseases. …”
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Suspicion diagnostic of Hirschsprung's disease in an adult intraoperatively: A case report by Thaimye Joseph, Axler Jean Paul, Abigaël Francis, Olnick Joseph

“…Case description: He is a 20-year-old male patient with past medical history of epilepsy, psychomotor delay and recently a perineal perforating injury, admitted in the emergency room with initial diagnosis of peritonitis by perforated viscus with Frankel grad B spinal cord injury. …”
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CD4+ T-cell transcription factors predict phenoconversion in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder by Monica Pinoli, Michele Terzaghi, Franca Marino, Cristoforo Comi, Maurizio Versino, Marco Cosentino

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Development of KCC2 therapeutics to treat neurological disorders by Shilpa D. Kadam, Shane V. Hegarty

“…Herein, we highlight KCC2 hypofunction as a fundamental and conserved pathology contributing to neuronal circuit excitation/inhibition (E/I) imbalances that underly epilepsies, chronic pain, neuro-developmental/-traumatic/-degenerative/-psychiatric disorders. …”
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What We Know and Would Like to Know about CDKL5 and Its Involvement in Epileptic Encephalopathy by Charlotte Kilstrup-Nielsen, Laura Rusconi, Paolo La Montanara, Dalila Ciceri, Anna Bergo, Francesco Bedogni, Nicoletta Landsberger

“…In the last few years, the X-linked serine/threonine kinase cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) has been associated with early-onset epileptic encephalopathies characterized by the manifestation of intractable epilepsy within the first weeks of life, severe developmental delay, profound hypotonia, and often the presence of some Rett-syndrome-like features. …”
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Emergency department utilization by spina bifida patients in Florida 2016–2020 by Sarah Whitteker, Dhyey Desai, Hannah Baker, Sudarshan Srirangapatanam, Lucas R. Wiegand, Hubert S. Swana

“…The most common presenting diagnoses were infections (23.1%) followed by epilepsy and seizure (17.3%). Transitional groups were responsible for the most emergency department encounters across all categories (p < 0.001). …”
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A case of imported neurocysticercosis in Portugal by Emilia Valadas, Robert Badura, Tiago Marques, Miguel Neno, Márcia Boura, Ana Filipa Sutre, Sílvia Beato, Maria Amélia Grácio, José Cordeiro Neves

“…Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common cause of acquired epilepsy in resource-poor countries. We report the case of a 24-year-old woman born and residing in Guinea-Bissau, who was transferred to Portugal two months after the onset of a possible meningitis (fever, headache, seizures, and coma) that did not respond to antibiotic treatment. …”
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The ethics and economics of organoid commercialization: potential donors’ perspectives by Hanna de Groot, Manon van Daal, Regina W. Hofland, Inez Bronsveld, Karin R. Jongsma, Renske M.T. ten Ham

“…One focus group included individuals with neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease) (n = 4) and the other consisted of individuals with neurological disease (epilepsy) (n = 5). Four themes were identified: (1) benefits and concerns regarding commercial involvement, (2) trust in involved parties in research, (3) control over commercial parties and (4) appreciation of donors. …”
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Impact of dendritic size and dendritic topology on burst firing in pyramidal cells. by Ronald A J van Elburg, Arjen van Ooyen

“…Our results suggest that alterations in size or topology of pyramidal cell morphology, such as observed in Alzheimer's disease, mental retardation, epilepsy, and chronic stress, could change neuronal burst firing and thus ultimately affect information processing and cognition.…”
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EXPERIENCE OF LONG TERM EEG AND ECG MONITORING IN THE DIAGNOSTIC OF PAROXYSMAL EVENTS EPILEPTIC AND NON EPILEPTICS SEIZURES by V. V. Gnezditskiy, V. A. Karlov, O. S. Korepina, A. A. Skomarohov

“…It is shown in the concrete examples, that the ambulatory monitoring EEG considerably enlarges the possibilities of inspection EEG and poligraphic indices and it makes it possible to obtain new information about the state of the brain. In diagnostics of epilepsy, with differential diagnostics of the epileptic and non epileptic forms of paroxysm, and prolonged monitoring makes it possible to improve diagnostics. …”
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Laterality, sexual dimorphism, and human vagal projectome heterogeneity shape neuromodulation to vagus nerve stimulation by Natalia P. Biscola, Petra M. Bartmeyer, Youssef Beshay, Esther Stern, Plamen V. Mihaylov, Terry L. Powley, Matthew P. Ward, Leif A. Havton

“…Abstract Neuromodulation by vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) provides therapeutic benefits in multiple medical conditions, including epilepsy and clinical depression, but underlying mechanisms of action are not well understood. …”
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Dual Adaptive Filtering by Optimal Projection Applied to Filter Muscle Artifacts on EEG and Comparative Study by Samuel Boudet, Laurent Peyrodie, William Szurhaj, Nicolas Bolo, Antonio Pinti, Philippe Gallois

“…Muscle artifacts constitute one of the major problems in electroencephalogram (EEG) examinations, particularly for the diagnosis of epilepsy, where pathological rhythms occur within the same frequency bands as those of artifacts. …”
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The Quality of Life of a Teenager with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis — Case Report by Marta Lewicka, Ewa Barczykowska, Bogumiła Małecka, Ewa Kontna

“…It is characterized by resistant to treatment epileptic seizures. Mainly, these are epilepsy partialis continua (EPC) seizures. In the course of the disease, regress of cognitive function and progressive neurological deficits follow, primarily, hemiparesis. …”
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Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries by Marta Silva, Xiongbo Wu, Marc Sabio, Estefanía Conde-Blanco, Pedro Roldán, Antonio Donaire, Mar Carreño, Nikolai Axmacher, Christopher Baldassano, Lluís Fuentemilla

“…Here, we recorded intracranial electrophysiological data from ten epilepsy patients watching a movie. Ripples were analyzed in the hippocampus and neocortical regions (i.e., temporal and frontal cortex). …”
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Naturalistic acute pain states decoded from neural and facial dynamics by Yuhao Huang, Jay Gopal, Bina Kakusa, Alice H. Li, Weichen Huang, Jeffrey B. Wang, Amit Persad, Ashwin Ramayya, Josef Parvizi, Vivek P. Buch, Corey J. Keller

“…Here, we use a multimodal, data-driven approach with intracranial electroencephalography, pain self-reports, and facial expression analysis to study acute pain in twelve epilepsy patients under continuous neural and audiovisual monitoring. …”
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Seizure occurrences among hypoglycemic patients in the emergency department by Seigo Urushidani, Mao Tanabe, Kwangsoo Baek, Koki Miyaguchi, Tetsunori Ikegami

“…Although 16 of the 19 patients had diabetes mellitus, none of the 19 patients had a history of epilepsy. The initial blood sugar levels of the patients with and without seizures were not significantly different (p = 0.97). …”
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CHILDREN’S GIFTEDNESS AND ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS. THE TWICE EXCEPTIONALITY PHENOMENON. GIFTEDNESS AND LEARNING PROBLEMS. GIFTEDNESS AND ATTENTION DEFICIT/ HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (А RE... by O. A. Pylaeva

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SincVAE: A new semi-supervised approach to improve anomaly detection on EEG data using SincNet and variational autoencoder by Andrea Pollastro, Francesco Isgrò, Roberto Prevete

“…Over the past few decades, electroencephalography monitoring has become a pivotal tool for diagnosing neurological disorders, particularly for detecting seizures. Epilepsy, one of the most prevalent neurological diseases worldwide, affects approximately 1% of the population. …”
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Behavioral Phenotype, Electroclinical Features, and Treatment Options in Twins with Lrp2 Candidate Variants (Donnay–Barrow/Foar Syndrome) by Alessia Mingarelli, Giovanni Battista Pipitone, Giacomo Torini, Maria Grazia Patricelli, Martina Totaro, Clara Colonna, Paola Carrera, Federico Raviglione

“…LRP2 is implicated in an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by dimorphisms, ocular anomalies, sensorineural deafness, proteinuria, epilepsy, and intellectual disability: a clinical condition called Donnai–Barrow syndrome (DBS) or facio-oculo-acoustico-renal (FOAR) syndrome. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Changes in Taenia solium Cysticercosis Seroprevalence among Pigs in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania by Mwemezi L. Kabululu, Bamidele N. Ogunro, Helena A. Ngowi

“…Taenia solium remains among the major causes of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the geospatial distribution of the parasite is important to inform control strategies. …”
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