The Efficacy of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) in Children with Attention Problems, Hyperactivity, and Impulsivity in Dubai by Saad A. Al Sehli, Maya Helou, Meshal A. Sultan

“…The first has Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and the second has frontal lobe epilepsy. Both presented with attention problems, hyperactivity, and impulsivity associated with significant impairment in multiple settings. …”
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The Contribution of Thalamocortical Core and Matrix Pathways to Sleep Spindles by Giovanni Piantoni, Eric Halgren, Sydney S. Cash

“…Because spindle mechanisms are often hijacked in epilepsy and schizophrenia, the classification proposed in this review might provide valuable information in defining which pathways have gone awry in these neurological disorders.…”
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Intraparenchymal Hematoma as the Beginning of an Arteriovenous Malformation. Case Report by Juan Ibrahim García Leonard, Ada Sánchez Lozano, Masleidy Valladares Valle

“…They are frequently located in the territory of the great cerebral arteries, but they can appear in any other vascular bed and are causes of intracerebral hemorrhages, epilepsy, focal neurological signs, and other symptoms. …”
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Pharmacokinetics of Anti-Epileptic Drugs and their Clinical Significance by Svein I. Johannessen

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Drug Reaction Syndrome with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms. Case Presentation by Omar Rangel Betarte, Mileny Acosta Fonseca, Vanessa Flores Hernández

“…A case of a 5 year old boy with antecedents of diagnosed epilepsy, treated with carbamazepine, who short time after starting the treatment had fever for 11 days. …”
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Automatized Calculating System for a Ketogenic Diet: CETORAP by Ligia M. Marcos Plasencia, Edelsia Rojas Massipe, Amarilis Barbié Rubiera

“…<strong>Fundament: </strong>The refractory epilepsy when being treated with antiepileptic drugs is one of the problems faced by Neurologists specialized in the Pediatric Branch. …”
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Nature and prevalence of long-term conditions in people with intellectual disability: retrospective longitudinal population-based study by Ashley Akbari, Navjot Kaur, Rania Kousovista, Gemma Lewin, Emeka Abakasanga, Rishika Shivamurthy, Georgina Cosma, Gyuchan Jun, Satheesh Gangadharan

“…When hospital episodes were analysed, epilepsy, diabetes, chronic airway disease and mental illness were commonly treated conditions during hospital admission across both sexes. …”
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A Girl with PRRT2 Mutation Presenting with Benign Familial Infantile Seizures Followed by Autistic Regression by Li Zhang, Zhen-Xia Wan, Jin-Yi Zhu, Hui-Juan Liu, Jin Sun, Xiao-Hui Zou, Ting Zhang, Yan Li

“…Benign familial infantile seizure (BFIS) is an autosomal dominant infantile-onset epilepsy syndrome with a typically benign prognosis. …”
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Clinical and demographic characteristics of autistic children in Al-Hilla city by Ahmed Abdul-Mohsin Alshammary, Qussay Nasser Aljibori, Mohammed Ali Al-Jabory

“…About 62.7% presented with speech delay, 17.6% had a family history of similar problems, 19.6% had sleep disturbance, 41.2% had gastrointestinal problems, 13.7% had epilepsy, and 50.9% had hyperactivity. Conclusion: We found a higher male-to-female ratio, delayed presentation to medical attention, most children present with speech delay and most patients had associated medical and psychiatric problems.…”
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Protective effect of rhizome extracts of the herb, vacha (Acorus calamus) against oxidative damage: An in vivo and in vitro study by M. Devaki, R. Nirupama, M. Nirupama, H.N. Yajurvedi

“…The rhizome of Acorus calamus, an herb widely used in Indian system of medicine for many ailments including epilepsy, mental illness and rheumatism, was subjected to soxhlet extraction to elucidate antioxidant property of different solvent extracts using in vitro assays. …”
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Relationship between Zinc (Zn2+) and Glutamate Receptors in the Processes Underlying Neurodegeneration by Bartłomiej Pochwat, Gabriel Nowak, Bernadeta Szewczyk

“…Under clinical conditions, hyperactivity of the glutamate system is associated with ischemia, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and many others. …”
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Contralateral Metabolic Activation Related to Plastic Changes in the Spinal Cord after Peripheral Nerve Injury in Rats by Ran Won, Bae Hwan Lee

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NREM and REM sleep parasomnias: clinical cases and literature review by K. Teišerskytė, I. Čelpačenko, E. Pajėdienė

“…Detailed sleep history and clinical examination are of essential significance in differential diagnosis between sleep disorders, nocturnal epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders. Non-pharmacological interventions such as sleep hygiene and safe sleeping environment play an important role in management of parasomnias. …”
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Strategies to innovate emergency care of status epilepticus by Jaideep Kapur

“…Many patients with medically refractory epilepsy are at risk for SE. Newly available nasally delivered benzodiazepines: midazolam and diazepam given for seizure clusters may prevent SE. …”
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A human single-neuron dataset for object recognition by Runnan Cao, Peter Brunner, Nicholas J. Brandmeir, Jon T. Willie, Shuo Wang

“…Here, we recorded single-neuron activity from the human amygdala and hippocampus when neurosurgical epilepsy patients performed a one-back task using naturalistic object stimuli. …”
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Factors Associated with Chronic Noncancer Pain in the Canadian Population by Saifudin Rashiq, Bruce D Dick

“…A number of comorbid medical illnesses increased CNCP risk, including some (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, epilepsy and thyroid disease) that have not hitherto been associated with pain. …”
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Widespread Striatal Delivery of GDNF from Encapsulated Cells Prevents the Anatomical and Functional Consequences of Excitotoxicity by Dwaine F. Emerich, Jeffrey H. Kordower, Yaping Chu, Chris Thanos, Briannan Bintz, Giovanna Paolone, Lars U. Wahlberg

“…Because GDNF has been effective in animal models of Parkinson’s disease, stroke, epilepsy, and Huntington’s disease, among other debilitating neurodegenerative diseases, encapsulated cell-based delivery of GDNF might represent one innovative means of slowing the neural degeneration seen in a myriad of currently untreatable neurological diseases.…”
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Infection-Induced Elevated Plasma Perampanel in a Patient with Hemimegalencephaly by Yuya Kinoshita, Hiroe Ueno, Hirofumi Kurata, Chizuru Ikeda, Erika Hori, Takumi Okada, Tomoyuki Shimazu, Isao Fujii, Makoto Matsukura, Hoseki Imamura

“…The patient had refractory epilepsy associated with hemimegalencephaly. During adolescence, perampanel (maximum dose, 10 mg, oral), valproic acid, clobazam, and lacosamide were administered for seizure control. …”
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Treatment of convulsive status epilepticus in Brazil: a review by Luis Otavio Caboclo

“…Status epilepticus (SE) is the most severe presentation of epilepsy. Currently, SE is defined according to 2 sequential time frames: time 1, after which it is unlikely that the seizure will resolve spontaneously, therefore requiring the initiation of therapy; and time 2, when long-term consequences become more likely. …”
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Dravet Syndrome in Lebanon: First Report on Cases with SCN1A Mutations by Saada Alame, Eliane El-Houwayek, Caroline Nava, Sandra Sabbagh, Ali Fawaz, Anne-Celine Gillart, Dana Hasbini, Christel Depienne, André Mégarbané

“…Dravet syndrome, also known as severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy, is a rare disease characterized by the appearance of different types of seizures in a healthy baby, triggered by various factors and stressful events. …”
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