IS WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME (PRES) TRUE? by Özlem Karabay Akgül, Erhan Okuyan, Evrim Ebru Kovalak, Güzide Ece Akıncı, Mehmet Salih Sevdi, Hakan Güraslan, Nurşen Kurtoğlu Aksoy, Neşe Hayıroğlu

“…Every patient was discharged with outpatient follow-up. Epilepsy continues in one patient, HT in two patients, and isolated nephropathy in one patient after PRES. …”
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Advanced imaging techniques and artificial intelligence in pleural diseases: a narrative review by Guido Marchi, Mattia Mercier, Jacopo Cefalo, Carmine Salerni, Martina Ferioli, Piero Candoli, Leonardo Gori, Federico Cucchiara, Giovanni Cenerini, Giacomo Guglielmi, Michele Mondoni

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Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices in Patients Admitted to The Pediatric Neurology Outpatient Clinic by Deniz Yüksel, Ergin Atasoy, Ülkühan Öztoprak, Erhan Aksoy, Fatih Mehmet Akif Özdemir, Halil Celik, Nesrin Ceylan

“…Just over half (55.3%) of the patients were followed up with a diagnosis of epilepsy, 56.6% of the parents stated that they had used traditional and complementary therapy methods before, 43.4% stated that they did not use it, 46.54% stated that they used prayer and 23,9% used vitamin methods, respectively. …”
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Best practices for clinical trials of deep brain stimulation for neuropsychiatric indications by Alexandra G. Tremblay-McGaw, Alexandra G. Tremblay-McGaw, Elissa J. Hamlat, Elissa J. Hamlat, Natalie C. Becker, Natalie C. Becker, Daniela A. Astudillo Maya, Daniela A. Astudillo Maya, Andrew D. Krystal, Andrew D. Krystal, Kristin K. Sellers, Kristin K. Sellers

“…While DBS is a well-established therapy for Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and medically refractory epilepsy, it is actively being studied in clinical trials for neuropsychiatric disorders including treatment-refractory major depressive disorder (MDD). …”
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Vaccination of a Patient with Rett Syndrome: Case Report by Tatiana A. Kaliuzhnaia, Marina V. Fedoseenko, Nato D. Vashakmadze, Nataliya V. Zhurkova, Firuza Ch. Shakhtakhtinskaya, Svetlana V. Tolstova, Arevaluis M. Selvyan, Olga Ya. Smirnova, Leonid M. Yatsik, Svetlana G. Gubanova, Svetlana E. Kondratova, Leyla S. Namazova-Baranova

“…Common symptoms of Rett syndrome include progressive mental and speech development delay, regression of previously acquired speech and motor skills, respiratory disorders, epilepsy, pathology of the gastrointestinal tract, endocrine, cardiovascular and urinary systems, which significantly impairs the vital functions of patients. …”
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Short-term 30-day adverse events following awake versus asleep deep brain stimulation for movement disorders: a nationwide registry-based study by Victor Gabriel El-Hajj, Ryan Nguyen, Abdul Karim Ghaith, Victor E. Staartjes, Christian Möhrlen, Adrian Elmi-Terander, Rushna Ali

“…Introduction: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is FDA-approved for the management of medically refractory movement disorders and epilepsy. We aim to assess potential differences in adverse eventsamong patients undergoing asleep versus awake DBS, to facilitate a patient centric decision-making process for the selection of ideal anesthesia modality for individuals undergoing DBS procedures. …”
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Intracranial neurophysiological correlates of rumination: A cross-sectional observational study by Xiao Chen, Zhen Fan, Dong Chen, Liang Wang, Liang Chen, Chao-Gan Yan

“…Methods: Here, we examined the intracranial electroencephalogram (iEEG) recordings from 21 patients with epilepsy during a naturalistic, continuous, active rumination state and measured the low frequency (1–8 Hz) and high gamma (70–150 Hz) band oscillation powers. …”
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Peptide-Purified Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor (NMDAR) Autoantibodies Have Inhibitory Effect on Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity by Charlotte Day, John-Paul Silva, Rebecca Munro, Brice Mullier, Véronique Marie André, Christian Wolff, Gary J. Stephens, Angela Bithell

“…The GluN1 (NR1) subunit of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) has been identified as a target of anti-NMDAR Aabs in a number of central nervous system (CNS) diseases, including encephalitis and autoimmune epilepsy. However, the role or the nature of Aabs responsible for effects on neuronal excitability and synaptic plasticity is yet to be established fully. …”
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Suppressing astrocytic GABA transaminase enhances tonic inhibition and weakens hippocampal spatial memory by Mingu Gordon Park, Jiwoon Lim, Daeun Kim, Won-Seok Lee, Bo-Eun Yoon, C. Justin Lee

“…Abstract Pharmacological suppression of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transaminase (GABA-T), the sole GABA-degrading enzyme and a potential therapeutic target for treating brain disorders such as epilepsy, increases not only phasic inhibition but also tonic inhibition. …”
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Metabolites derived from medicinal plants modulating voltage-gated sodium channel activity: A systematic review by José Luis Estela-Zape, Mayra Liliana Pizarro-Loaiza, Gabriel Arteaga, Santiago Castaño, Leonardo Fierro

“…Dysfunction of these channels is associated with neurological disorders such as epilepsy, neuropathic pain, and myopathies. Although plant-derived compounds have shown promise in modulating Nav channels, the molecular mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. …”
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The Anticonvulsant Effect of Hydroethanolic Leaf Extract of Calotropis procera (Ait) R. Br. (Apocynaceae) by Ernest Obese, Robert Peter Biney, Isaac Tabiri Henneh, Emmanuel Awintiig Adakudugu, Daniel Anokwah, Lovia Serwaa Agyemang, Eric Woode, Elvis Ofori Ameyaw

“…Traditionally, Calotropis procera is used extensively in the management of epilepsy. This study is conducted to explore the anticonvulsant effect of a hydroethanolic leaf extract of Calotropis procera (CPE) in murine models. …”
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Associations between refraction and ocular biometry in Chinese preschoolers aged 3–6 years: a cross-sectional study in Shunyi, Beijing by Rui Wang, Aimin Jiang, Jing Yuan, Qing Xu, Liting Zhu, Zhanfeng Li

“…Objective To estimate the associations between refraction and ocular biometry of preschool children (3–6 years old) in Shunyi District, Beijing.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting This study was conducted in 11 kindergartens in Shunyi District, Beijing.Participants A total of 1186 Chinese children aged 3–6 years old without any history of Down’s syndrome, epilepsy, history of ophthalmologic surgery and other psychiatric disorders were selected. …”
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82 Leveraging the biodesign process to create impactful medical technologies: A study in neurosurgery by Arjun Menta, Arjun K. Menta, Ava Taylor, Kenny Nova, Sofia Garcia del Barrio Cervera, Shreya Jindal, Anders Sideris, William S. Anderson, Soumyadipta Acharya, Youseph Yazdi

“…Finally, through iterative evaluation of evidence generation, market opportunity, and stakeholder feedback, five critical unmet needs in stroke, traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, and epilepsy were identified for technological innovation. …”
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http://zmj.zsmu.edu.ua/article/view/18936/16626 by N. P. Shastun

“…The problem of choose of the safe anticonvulsant for the treatment of epilepsy is quite relevant. When choosing a drug, the physician should strive to balance the frequency of attacks and the severity of side effects in each individual patient. …”
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Long-Term Ketogenic Diet Induces Metabolic Acidosis, Anemia, and Oxidative Stress in Healthy Wistar Rats by Aryadi Arsyad, Irfan Idris, Andi A. Rasyid, Rezky A. Usman, Kiki R. Faradillah, Wa Ode U. Latif, Zidni I. Lubis, Aminuddin Aminuddin, Ika Yustisia, Yulia Y. Djabir

“…Ketogenic diet has been used as supportive therapy in a range of conditions including epilepsy, diabetes mellitus, and cancer. Objective. …”
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Two Different Brain Injury Patterns Associated with Compound Heterozygosis of the PIGO Gene in a Term Newborn: A Case Report by Francesco Dellepiane, Giulia Moltoni, Sara Ronci, Alessia Guarnera, Maria Camilla Rossi-Espagnet, Maria Cristina Digilio, Diego Martinelli, Francesca Campi, Daniela Longo

“…We report a case of a male term newborn with two compound heterozygous variants of the PIGO genes, presenting with encephalopathy, drug-resistant epilepsy, and gastrointestinal abnormalities. Brain MRI first showed diffusion restriction in the ponto-medullary tegmentum, ventral mesencephalon, superior cerebellar peduncles, cerebral peduncles, and globi pallidi. …”
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Multi-channel spatio-temporal graph attention contrastive network for brain disease diagnosis by Chaojun Li, Kai Ma, Shengrong Li, Xiangshui Meng, Ran Wang, Daoqiang Zhang, Qi Zhu

“…Finally, a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) is used to classify the brain networks. Experiments on epilepsy and ADNI datasets show that our method outperforms several state-of-the-art approaches in diagnosing performance, and it provides discriminative graph features for related brain diseases.…”
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Clinical significance of periventricular leukomalacia in the formation cerebral palsy by O. K. Kirilochev, Z. G. Tarasova, A. S. Eiberman, L. G. Bochkova

“…In 16 surviving children, the following organic lesions of the central nervous system were formed: cerebral palsy, severe double hemiplegia, symptomatic epilepsy (5 children; 31.3 %); cerebral palsy, severe double hemiplegia (5 children; 31.3 %); cerebral palsy, spastic diplegia (6 children; 37.4 %).…”
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An epidemiological study of hepatitis virus infection in psychiatric patients in East China by Taixiu Liu, Ruirui Chen, Deyun Bu, Zheng Shi, Heng Zhang, Wu Li, Dong Liu

“…Compared with non-psychiatric patients, the “Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol”, “Schizophrenia”, “Mental disorders due to epilepsy”, “Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence”, “Obsessive-compulsive disorder”, “Somatoform disorders” and “Depressive episode” become influencing factors for HBV infection. …”
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Evaluation of functional gastrointestinal disorders in children aged 4-10 years with autism spectrum disorder by Özlem Gülpınar Aydın, Hüseyin Burak Baykara, Kardelen Akın, Sinem Kahveci, Gül Şeker, Yunus Güler, Yeşim Öztürk

“…Some ASD-associated comorbidities are abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, gastroesophageal reflux, sleep disturbances, epilepsy, and psychiatric problems. Nonetheless, there is still limited information about the presence of functional GI disorders (FGIDs) among children with ASD, especially in Türkiye. …”
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