Early Diagnosis of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus Recurrence with Raw EEG of a Bispectral Index Monitor by Aristide Ntahe

“…Background. Seizures are frequent in ICU and their diagnosis is challenging, often delayed or missed. …”
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The Default Mode Network and Altered Consciousness in Epilepsy by Nathan B. Danielson, Jennifer N. Guo, Hal Blumenfeld

“…Interestingly, this same network has been shown to be selectively impaired during epileptic seizures associated with loss of consciousness. Using a wide range of neuroimaging and electrophysiological modalities, decreased activity in the default mode network has been confirmed during complex partial, generalized tonic-clonic, and absence seizures. …”
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Assessment of Patients’ Adherence to Antiepileptic Medications at Dessie Referral Hospital, Chronic Follow-Up, South Wollo, Amhara Region, North East Ethiopia by Gizachew Kassahun, Getachew Moges, Yitayew Demessie

“…An epileptic seizure is a clinical event presumed to result from an abnormal and excessive neuronal discharge. …”
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Pilocarpine-Induced Status Epilepticus Is Associated with Changes in the Actin-Modulating Protein Synaptopodin and Alterations in Long-Term Potentiation in the Mouse Hippocampus by Maximilian Lenz, Marina Ben Shimon, Thomas Deller, Andreas Vlachos, Nicola Maggio

“…Some patients may experience status epilepticus, a life-threatening state of ongoing seizure activity associated with postictal cognitive dysfunction. …”
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Gender-Specific Hippocampal Dysrhythmia and Aberrant Hippocampal and Cortical Excitability in the APPswePS1dE9 Model of Alzheimer’s Disease by Anna Papazoglou, Julien Soos, Andreas Lundt, Carola Wormuth, Varun Raj Ginde, Ralf Müller, Christina Henseler, Karl Broich, Kan Xie, Dan Ehninger, Britta Haenisch, Marco Weiergräber

“…Automatic seizure detection revealed severe electroencephalographic seizure activity in both M1 and CA1 deflection in APPswePS1dE9 mice with gender-specific characteristics. …”
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Corpus callosotomy for treatment of pediatric epilepsy: two clinical cases and a literature review by R. Matonytė, S. Ročka, J. Grikinienė

“…The condition of epilepsy may be traced to various factors and seizure symptoms can vary widely. Controlled seizures are the main goal of epilepsy management. …”
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The challenges associated with a ketogenic diet: a narrative review by Xin Qi, Richard Tester

“…This intervention limits glucose availability and consequently neural ‘excitability’ and seizures. Overall, the diet is high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and restricted protein in design. …”
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome with Stroke in Puerperal Woman with High Titer of Anti-Phospholipid IgM Antibody by Hiroto Hirashima, Masahiro Iwamoto, Tadashi Ozawa, Shigeyoshi Kijima, Shigeki Matsubara, Akihide Ohkuchi

“…She transabdominally delivered a male infant weighing 3,344 g at 40+5 weeks. A tonic-clonic seizure abruptly occurred without either hypertension or proteinuria 5 days after delivery. …”
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Transient epileptic amnesia by J. S. Anužytė, G. Rutkauskaitė, R. Mameniškienė

“… Transient epileptic amnesia is an adult onset form of temporal epilepsy which is characterised by recurrent acute seizure-induced amnesia often accompanied by ongoing memory disturbances of autobiographical, topographical amnesia and accelerated long-term forgetting. …”
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Progress on responsive neurostimulation in treatment of drug⁃resistant epilepsy by FAN Xiu⁃liang, BAI Yu⁃tong, YANG An⁃chao, ZHANG Kai

“…Approximately 1/3 of patients are diagnosed with drug⁃resistant epilepsy (DRE), for which conventional antiepileptic seizure medicine (ASM) and traditional surgery have limited efficacy. …”
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Use of Innovative SPECT Techniques in the Presurgical Evaluation of Patients with Nonlesional Extratemporal Drug-Resistant Epilepsy by Ahmed Yassin, Khalid El-Salem, Abdel-Hameed Al-Mistarehi, Aiman Momani, Anas M. Zein Alaabdin, Palak Shah, James Michael Mountz, Anto I. Bagić

“…Patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) should undergo evaluation for seizure onset zone (SOZ) localization to consider surgical treatment. …”
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First line antiepileptics and their hidden risks - a unique case report on diffuse calvarial thickening and twisted tongue linked to the use of phenytoin and sodium valproate by Sankavi Kaarthic, Selvakumar CJ

“…CASE 2: 45 year old female a case of idiopathic generalised epilepsy was started on sodium valproate for seizure control and she developed lingual dystonia during follow up. …”
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Effect of Lamotrigine on Refractory Epilepsy: Clinical Outcomes and EEG Changes by Li Z, Wu P, Chen Q, Tong X, Yang Q

“…The observation group demonstrated a significantly greater reduction in seizure frequency compared to the control group (P = 0.014). …”
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Italian Police Seize $1 Million Worth of Antiquities From Roman Businessmen by Naomi Rea

“…An article in artnet News published on May 14, 2018, details the seizure of Roman antiquities in Lazio that included several figurative terracottas, including two animal heads of monumental size. …”
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Twenty-three arrests and around 10,000 cultural items seized by Europol Newsroom

“…On 18 November 2019, an international police operation involving over 350 police officers, supported by Europol (within the framework of EMPACT) and Eurojust, dismantled an international organized crime group involved in large-scale trafficking of looted archaeological items resulting in the arrest of 23 individuals, 80 house searches, and the seizure of around 10,000 cultural items, including hundreds of figurative terracottas.…”
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Joseph Fouque (1755-1819) rentoileur de tableaux au Musée du Louvre by Aude Briau

“…The opening of the musée du Louvre at the end of the 18th century allowed a great interest for painting restoration,due to the seizure of artworks all across Europe by the French revolutionaries and then by Napoleon's army. …”
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Neuropsychiatric profile in tuberous sclerosis complex patients with epilepsy by Mahmoud Fawzi Osman, Mahmoud Fawzi Osman, Faisal Hadid, Tawfeg ben Omran, Tawfeg ben Omran, Tawfeg ben Omran, Munira Aden, Fatima Al-Maadid, Sondos Altaraqji, Khalid Mohamed, Ruba Benini, Ruba Benini

“…The findings emphasize the need for tailored management approaches, focusing on early seizure control and comprehensive multidisciplinary care. …”
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Salivary Lactate Dehydrogenase in Relationship to the Severity of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy among Newborn Infants by Hend Elmoursi, Mohamed Abdalla, Bader Eldin Mesbah, Abdelmoneim Khashana

“…The cases in the HIE group were assigned into three stages according to the Sarnat and Sarnat staging system: stage I: mild (irritable, normal, or hypertonia and poor feeding); stage II: moderate (lethargy, hypotonia, and frequent seizure); stage III: severe (coma, flaccid, absent reflexes, and frequent seizure). …”
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A Novel Rat Infant Model of Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Reveals New Insight into the Molecular Biology and Epileptogenesis in the Developing Brain by Carola Wormuth, Anna Papazoglou, Christina Henseler, Dan Ehninger, Karl Broich, Britta Haenisch, Jürgen Hescheler, Rüdiger Köhling, Marco Weiergräber

“…Using implantable video-EEG radiotelemetry, we quantified a complex set of seizure parameters that demonstrated the induction of chronic electroencephalographic seizure activity in our InfRPil-mTLE model, which predominated during the dark cycle. …”
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Epilepsy and Child History in Dr. Jamal Ahmad Rashid Pediatric Teaching Hospital Sulaymaniyah /Iraq by Awayi Ghazy Abdulkareem

“…The results of survey also showed that most of the children were diagnosed between ages one to five while most of the samples have a generalized seizure. On the other hand, there was a statistical significant association between febrile convulsion and family history of epilepsy depending. …”
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