Congenital malformations in children of epileptic pregnant women in the Cienfuegos province (2008-2018) by María Soledad Vilches León, Carmen Niurka Piña Loyola, Maylé Santos Solís, Vivian Rosa Vázquez Martínez, Cristóbal Jorge Torres González, Niurys Gonzales Cano

“…<p><strong>Background</strong>: in pregnant women, epilepsy is one of the most frequent neurological disorders, considered high risk due to the complications it produces. …”
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Sequelae following an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis in Niger in 2022. by Abdoul-Aziz Idrissa, Salifou Atti, Roger Kiamvu Wasaulua, Serge Kazadi, Ousmane Sani, Elhadji Ibrahim Tassiou, Ousmane Guindo, Georges Tonamou, Iza Ciglenecki, Matthew E Coldiron

“…The most common sequelae were hearing loss (6%), paralysis (3%) and epilepsy (2%).<h4>Discussion</h4>Case fatality during the epidemic appears to have been higher than reported in routine surveillance. …”
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Multimodal assessment of sleep-wake perception in insomnia disorder by Carlotta L. Schneider, Kristoffer D. Fehér, Elisabeth Hertenstein, Fabian Hügli, Marina Wunderlin, Marc A. Züst, Christian Mikutta, Antoine R. Adamantidis, Thomas Berger, Dieter Riemann, Bernd Feige, Christoph Nissen

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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors for Cysticercosis in Mexican Americans in Starr County, Texas by Megan M. Duffey, Elise M. O’Connell, Morgan Jibowu, Fanny E. Moron, Lauren M. Leining, Nina L. Tang, Craig L. Hanis, Eric L. Brown, Sarah M. Gunter

“…Cysticercosis with central nervous system involvement, or neurocysticercosis, is a leading cause of chronic headaches and epilepsy in endemic regions, including Latin America and Asia. …”
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Neuroborreliosis with encephalitis: a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations by Dominica Hudasch, Franz Felix Konen, Nora Möhn, Lea Grote-Levi, Ulrich Wurster, Gabriel Welte, Josef Conzen, Nima Mahmoudi, Thomas Skripuletz, Philipp Schwenkenbecher

“…Conclusion Neuroborreliosis can present with symptoms that mimic various neurological disorders, such as dementia, movement disorders, and epilepsy. Radiculitis, peripheral facial palsy or meningitis are an additional hint for this infectious disease. …”
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Advancement in Graph Neural Networks for EEG Signal Analysis and Application: A Review by S. M. Atoar Rahman, Md Ibrahim Khalil, Hui Zhou, Yu Guo, Ziyun Ding, Xin Gao, Dingguo Zhang

“…The applications of GNNs are summarized in the domains of emotion detection, epilepsy seizure detection, stroke rehabilitation, Alzheimer&#x2019;s disease diagnosis, motor imagery detection, neurological disease diagnosis, major depressive disorder, and driving fatigue detection. …”
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Long-term conditions, multimorbidity and colorectal cancer risk in the UK Biobank cohort by Neave ME Corcoran, Frances S Mair, Barbara Nicholl, Sara Macdonald, Bhautesh Dinesh Jani

“…CRC mortality was higher in presence of epilepsy (HR 1.83, CI 1.03–3.26), diabetes (HR 1.32, CI 1.02–1.72), osteoporosis (HR 1.67, CI 1.12–2.58). …”
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Pneumococcal meningitis in the newborn period in a prevaccination era: a 10-year experience at a tertiary intensive care unit by Ahmet Yağmur Baş, Nihal Demirel, Mustafa Aydin, Ayşegül Zenciroglu, Alparslan Tonbul, Gönül Tanir

“…In the surviving patients, two had epilepsy, one sensorineural hearing loss, and two mental-motor retardation. …”
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Protocol for EpiCom: A phase 3b/4 study of behavioral outcomes following adjunctive cannabidiol for the management of tuberous sclerosis complex-associated neuropsychiatric disorde... by Agnies M van Eeghen, Elizabeth A Thiele, Sam Amin, Debopam Samanta, Anna C Jansen, Joanne Stevens, Lisa Moore-Ramdin, Petrus J de Vries

“…Anecdotal evidence also suggests psychiatric, neuropsychological, and behavioral benefits of CBD. EpiCom (Epilepsy Comorbidities; NCT05864846; EU-CT, 2023-507426-17), a multicenter, open-label, phase 3b/4 study, with hybrid decentralized approach, was designed in collaboration with patient advisory groups and healthcare professionals to evaluate behavioral and other outcomes following adjunctive CBD treatment in individuals with TSC-associated seizures. …”
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EEG-Based Seizure Detection Using Dual-Branch CNN-ViT Network Integrating Phase and Power Spectrograms by Zhuohan Wang, Yaoqi Hu, Qingyue Xin, Guanghao Jin, Yazhou Zhao, Weidong Zhou, Guoyang Liu

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder with pathological mechanisms closely associated with the spatiotemporal dynamic characteristics of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. …”
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Essential oil–related status epilepticus: A small case series study by Thomas Mathew, Saji K. John, Vikram Kamath, Shiva Kumar R, Rakesh Jadav, Asha Shaji, Raghunandan Nadig, Gosala Raja Kukkuta Sarma, Gareth J. Parry

“…Two had de novo generalized tonic–clonic status epilepticus, and 1 with posttraumatic occipital lobe epilepsy had focal‐impaired awareness status epilepticus. …”
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Movement Disorders and Smart Wrist Devices: A Comprehensive Study by Andrea Caroppo, Andrea Manni, Gabriele Rescio, Anna Maria Carluccio, Pietro Aleardo Siciliano, Alessandro Leone

“…The selected articles mainly investigate the relationship between smart wrist devices and Parkinson’s disease. Epilepsy and seizure detection are also research topics of interest, while there are few papers analyzing gait disorders, Huntington’s Disease, ataxia, or Tourette Syndrome. …”
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Hepatic toll of keto: unveiling the inflammatory and structural consequences of ketogenic diet in rats by Khatereh Rezazadeh, Mohammad Barzegar, Erfan Nezamdoost, Maryam Shoaran, Mehran Mesgari Abbasi, Babollah Ghasemi, Solmaz Madadi, Sina Raeisi

“…Abstract Background The ketogenic diet (KD) has been used as a therapeutic diet for a range of diseases such as epilepsy, obesity, and cancer. However, it may cause some adverse effects that are not well known. …”
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Advanced Trans-EEGNet Deep Learning Model for Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Severity Grading by Dong-Her Shih, Feng-I Chung, Ting-Wei Wu, Shuo-Yu Huang, Ming-Hung Shih

“…HIE patients may face long-term complications such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, vision loss, and developmental delays. Therefore, prompt identification and treatment of hypoxic-ischemic symptoms can help reduce the risk of severe sequelae in patients. …”
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A single main-chain hydrogen bond required to keep GABAA receptors closed by Cecilia M. Borghese, Jason D. Galpin, Samuel Eriksson Lidbrink, Yuxuan Zhuang, Netrang G. Desai, Rebecca J. Howard, Erik Lindahl, Christopher A. Ahern, Marcel P. Goldschen-Ohm

“…Genetic mutations causing their dysfunction are related to a broad spectrum of human disorders such as epilepsy, neurodevelopment and intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, and depression. …”
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Controlling the local extracellular electric field can suppress the generation and propagation of seizures and spikes in the hippocampus by Muthumeenakshi Subramanian, Chia-Chu Chiang, Cedric Levi, Dominique M. Durand

“…Recruitment of neurons in epilepsy occurs in part due to electric field coupling in addition to synaptic mechanisms. …”
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Price and affordability of key essential medicines for children in Sri Lanka, a lower-middle-income country: comparison of two national cross-sectional surveys done 8 years apart by Shalini Sri Ranganathan, Thiyahiny Sunil Navaratinaraja, Ramasamy Balasubramaniam, Hemantha Beneragama

“…Standard drug therapy for mild lower respiratory tract infections and acute gastroenteritis remained affordable, and treating epilepsy with carbamazepine syrup remained unaffordable.Conclusion Economic access to key essential medicines for children has not improved in Sri Lanka in the 8 years’ time since the initial survey in 2009.…”
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Beyond early and late adopters: Reimagining health technology readiness through health-related circumstances by Tuuli Turja, Virpi Jylhä, Milla Rosenlund, Hanna Kuusisto

“…The study used survey data (N = 287) collected from people with multiple sclerosis or epilepsy in Finland. In the first phase, the technology adoption outcome measured in the multidimensional readiness and enablement index for health technology was categorized into early, majority, and late adopters through cluster analysis. …”
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Taenia solium infection in Peru: a collaboration between Peace Corps Volunteers and researchers in a community based study. by Nathaniel S Watts, Monica Pajuelo, Taryn Clark, Maria-Cristina I Loader, Manuela R Verastegui, Charles Sterling, Jon S Friedland, Hector H Garcia, Robert H Gilman, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

“…<h4>Background</h4>Neurocysticercosis is a leading cause of seizures and epilepsy in most of the world, and it occurs when Taenia solium larval cysts infect the central nervous system. …”
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From Molecules to Medicines: The Role of AI-Driven Drug Discovery Against Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Neurological Disorders by Mashael A. Alghamdi

“…A detailed literature review was performed to gather evidence regarding the most recent AI tools for drug discovery against AD, Parkinson’s disease (PD), multiple sclerosis (MLS), and epilepsy, focusing on biological markers, early diagnoses, and drug discovery using various databases like PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus, and ScienceDirect to collect relevant literature. …”
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