Survival from Maternal Cardiac Arrest Complicating Coronavirus Disease 2019 by Andrea D. Shields, John J. Byrne, Meghan Munisteri, Michael Wood

“…Her postpartum course was also associated with seizures attributed to posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. …”
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Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 in a patient diagnosed with nesidioblastosis. A case presentation by Olivia Elizabeth Altamirano Guerrero, María Gabriela Balarezo García, Juan Sebastián Lima Icaza

“…A 23-years-old male patient with a health history of nesidioblastosis diagnosed at 16 years of age, who attended the Ambato General Teaching Hospital with tonic-clonic seizures and severe hypoglycemia with subsequent epileptic status, is described. …”
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Marchiafava-Bignami Disease: a Reality. A Case Report by Masleidy Valladares Valle, Juan Ibrahim García Leonard, Ada Sánchez Lozano

“…The case of a 55-year-old patient is reported, alcoholic, who attended with generalized epileptic seizures and impaired level of consciousness. Magnetic resonance imaging of the skull revealed demyelination of the corpus callosum, white and gray matter of the parietal and frontal lobes, leading to the diagnosis of acute Marchiafava-Bignami type A disease. …”
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The therapeutic agents that target ATP-sensitive potassium channels by Rubaiy Hussein N.

“…Also, KATP channels are involved in the protection against neuronal seizures and ischaemic stress in the heart, brain and in the regulation of vascular smooth muscle tone. …”
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MELAS Missed for Years: Stroke-Like Lesions Are No Indication for Brain Biopsy by J. Finsterer

“…A 56-year-old female with a history of chronic alcoholism until age 38 y with a relapse between ages 45 and 46 y developed seizures, psychosis, and hemianopia to the left at age 46 y. …”
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Understanding the Pathogenesis of Angelman Syndrome through Animal Models by Nihar Ranjan Jana

“…Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe mental retardation, lack of speech, ataxia, susceptibility to seizures, and unique behavioral features such as easily provoked smiling and laughter and autistic features. …”
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Differentiation of Epileptic Brain Abnormalities among Neurological Patients at Taif Region Using MRI by Nahla L. Faizo, Amani A. Alrehaili

“…The percentage of epilepsy was generally higher in males than in females in the Taif city, and seizures were different between the studied age groups. …”
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Control of Linear-Threshold Brain Networks via Reservoir Computing by Michael McCreesh, Jorge Cortes

“…We illustrate the versatility of this setup in two applications: selective recruitment and inhibition of neuronal populations for goal-driven selective attention, and network intervention for the prevention of epileptic seizures.…”
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Directly Converted Human Fibroblasts Mature to Neurons and Show Long-Term Survival in Adult Rodent Hippocampus by Natalia Avaliani, Ulrich Pfisterer, Andreas Heuer, Malin Parmar, Merab Kokaia, My Andersson

“…In most severe cases of epilepsy, seizures often originate in the hippocampus, where populations of inhibitory interneurons degenerate. …”
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Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient with Profound Hyponatremia and Acute Neurological Symptoms: An Effective Treatment with Fludrocortisone by Jana Jaal, Tõnu Jõgi, Alan Altraja

“…Being usually asymptomatic, hyponatremia may cause symptoms like nausea, fatigue, disorientation, headache, muscle cramps, or even seizures, particularly if severe and rapid decrease of serum sodium levels occurs. …”
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Long-Term Isoflurane Therapy for Refractory Bronchospasm Associated with Herpes Simplex Pneumonia in a Heart Transplant Patient by C. Hornuss, M. Firsching, M. Dolch, A. Martignoni, A. Peraud, J. Briegel

“…A 47-year-old man with a history of heart transplant was admitted after severe traumatic brain injury and seizures. During mechanical ventilation, the patient developed bronchospasm that severely compromised respiratory function that led to cardiac arrest. …”
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Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis Complicating Typhoid Fever in a Teenager by P. O. Okunola, G. E. Ofovwe, M. T. Abiodun, C. P. Azunna

“…We present an adolescent girl who was well until two weeks earlier when she had a throbbing frontal headache and fever with chills; she later had dyspnoea, jaundice, melena stool, multiple seizures, nuchal rigidity, and monoparesis of the right lower limb a day before admission. …”
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Multifocal disseminated necrotizing leukoencephalopathy as severe central nervous system toxicity from nivolumab therapy for Hodgkin lymphoma: a case report by Hussein Algahtani, Bader Shirah, Mohamed Najm Aldeen Alameen, Abdulrahman Bin Saeed, Alwaleed Abdulhadi Alqahtani

“…After six cycles of nivolumab, the patient developed multifocal disseminated necrotizing leukoencephalopathy, presenting with altered mental status, seizures, and neurological deficits with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of extensive white matter involvement, rendering him completely disabled. …”
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The Relationship of Triphasic Waves with Intracranial Pressure as a Possible Prognostic Marker in Traumatic Brain Injury by Nakul Katyal, Aarti Sarwal, Pravin George, Biswajit Banik, Christopher R. Newey

“…Continuous electroencephalography (CEEG) monitoring is used for detection of convulsive and nonconvulsive seizures and assessing the degree of encephalopathy in critically ill patients. …”
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Central auditory processing in epileptic children by Amal E. Beshr, Tayseer Taha, Rasha El-bialy, Reda Behairy, Alaa Amin

“…Abstract Background Epilepsy is characterized by the transient occurrence of signs or symptoms due to hypersynchronous or excessive neuronal activity. Seizures caused by epilepsy during brain development can hinder the normal growth and functioning of the brain, which may negatively impact the acquisition of cognitive skills that are crucial for the learning process. …”
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Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury and Autism: Elucidating Shared Mechanisms by Rahul Singh, Ryan C. Turner, Linda Nguyen, Kartik Motwani, Michelle Swatek, Brandon P. Lucke-Wold

“…Prominent symptoms for both disorders include gastrointestinal problems, learning difficulties, seizures, and sensory processing disruption. In this review, we highlight some of these shared mechanisms in order to discuss potential treatment options that might be applied for each condition. …”
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Mowat-Wilson Syndrome: The First Clinical and Molecular Report of an Indonesian Patient by Farmaditya E. P. Mundhofir, Helger G. Yntema, Ineke van der Burgt, Ben C. J. Hamel, Sultana M. H. Faradz, Bregje W. M. van Bon

“…The striking facial phenotype in addition to other features such as severely impaired speech, hypotonia, microcephaly, short stature, seizures, corpus callosum agenesis, congenital heart defects, hypospadias, and Hirschsprung disease are particularly important clues for the initial clinical diagnosis. …”
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in a Patient with Newly Diagnosed HIV Infection and End Stage Renal Disease by Mohankumar Kurukumbi, Maria I. Castellanos, Amanda K. Crawford, Shreyas D. Gowdar, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth

“…Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinicoradiological syndrome in which patients present with an acute or subacute clinical presentation of seizures, visual disturbances, headache, and altered mental status. …”
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Clinical presentation and management challenges of sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase insufficiency syndrome associated with an SGPL1 variant: a case report by Vahid Saeedi, Nahid Rahimzadeh, Fahimeh Ehsanipour, Neda Shalbaf, Amirhosein Farahi, Khalil Rashidi, Leila Kamalzadeh

“…Case presentation A 2-year-old Iranian female presented with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (NS), primary adrenal insufficiency (AI), growth delay, seizures, and hyperpigmentation. Laboratory evaluation revealed hypoalbuminemia, significant proteinuria, hyperkalemia, and elevated adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels. …”
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Treatment of Shiga-Toxin Hus with Severe Neurologic Features with Eculizumab by Jacob H. Umscheid, Collin Nevil, Rhythm Vasudeva, Mohammed Farhan Ali, Nisha Agasthya

“…Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli- (STEC-) mediated HUS is a common cause of acute renal failure in children and can rarely result in severe neurological complications such as encephalopathy, seizures, cerebrovascular accidents, and coma. Current literature supports use of eculizumab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks complement activation, in atypical HUS (aHUS). …”
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