Fasting Plasma Glucose Indicates Reversibility of the Acute Insulin Response after Short-Term Intensive Insulin Therapy in Patients with Various Duration of Type 2 Diabetes by Liehua Liu, Siyue Yang, Jianbin Liu, Hai Li, Juan Liu, Xiaopei Cao, Haipeng Xiao, Yanbing Li

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The safety and effectiveness of tDCS for epileptic patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Xiao-Tong Ding, Ming-Yu Hu, Chi Wang, Wei-Ye Kang, Jin-Zhao Huang, Rui-Yu Wang, Qiu-Song Shen, Hou-Ming Kan

“…This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to explore the effectiveness of tDCS on seizure frequency (SF), epileptiform discharges, depression, anxiety, and cognitive function in epilepsy. …”
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A Case of Carbamazepine-Induced Aggravation of Self-Limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes Epilepsy and Valproate-Induced Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy in a Child with Heteroz... by Imalke Kankananarachchi, Eresha Jasinge, Gemunu Hewawitharana

“…Though he showed some improvement at the beginning, his seizure frequency increased when the dose of CBZ was increased. …”
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Epilepsy and Child History in Dr. Jamal Ahmad Rashid Pediatric Teaching Hospital Sulaymaniyah /Iraq by Awayi Ghazy Abdulkareem

“…Epilepsy is a chronic neurological illness that is the most prevalent severe brain problem worldwide .The purpose of this research is to determine the importance of certain risk variables for epilepsy in children in Sulaimani City, such as age, gender, head trauma, nervous system infectious diseases including meningitis and unusual perinatal history, low birth weight, neonate respiratory failure, neonatal seizure, socioeconomic status, as well as parent consanguinity. …”
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Neurobrucellosis: a retrospective cohort of 106 patients by Fatemeh Arazi, Mahboubeh Haddad, Fereshte Sheybani, Mohammad Taghi Farzadfard, Majid Khadem Rezaeian

“…Key predictors of mortality include older age, altered level of consciousness, seizures, elevated body temperature on admission, and white matter changes. …”
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Neuropsychiatric Involvement in Juvenile-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Mohammad-Amin Khajezadeh, Gholamreza Zamani, Bobak Moazzami, Zahra Nagahi, Mahdie Mousavi-Torshizi, Vahid Ziaee

“…The most common neuropsychiatric symptoms were seizures, migraine, and depression. The mean age at the onset of symptoms was 10.2 ± 3 years. …”
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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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The Effectiveness of Modified Atkins Ketogenic Diet on Children with Intractable Epilepsy: A Pilot Study from Indonesia by Achmad Rafli, Setyo Handryastuti, Mulya Rahma Karyanti, Yoga Devaera, Cut Nurul Hafifah, Irawan Mangunatmadja, Muzal Kadim, Elisabeth Siti Herini, Lora Sri Nofi, Ariek Ratnawati, Suci Fitrianti

“…The MAD reduces the mean seizure frequency in children with intractable epilepsy in the first, third, and sixth months, with a statistical significance in the sixth month. …”
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Clinical characteristics and associated factors of pediatric acute necrotizing encephalopathy: a retrospective study by Huiling Zhang, Yilong Wang, Qianyun Ding, Xuekun Li, Sheng Ye

“…Results In this cohort of 34 patients, the most common symptoms were fever, seizures, altered consciousness, vomiting, diarrhea and shock. …”
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Biomarker Profiling for Pyridoxine Dependent Epilepsy in Dried Blood Spots by HILIC-ESI-MS by Elizabeth Mary Mathew, Sudheer Moorkoth, Leslie Lewis, Pragna Rao

“…Pyridoxine dependent epilepsy is a condition where the affected infant or child has prolonged seizures (status epilepticus), which are nonresponsive to anticonvulsant therapy but can be treated with pharmacological doses of pyridoxine. …”
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Hippocampal Necrosis in a Cat from Australia by Carl Adagra, Susan Amanda Piripi

“…A seven-year-old neutered female cat was seen with a history of behavioural change followed by complex focal seizures. The cat was severely pyrexic on presentation and anisocoria was present. …”
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Political Philosophy as a Vocation by Andrius Bielskis

“…Autorius dėkoja visiems, kas dalyvavo, klausėsi, skaitė ir komentavo jo mintis, ypač šeimos nariams – Severijai ir Nickui, atvykusiems iš Londono, Jolantai ir Samueliui Andriui, broliui Putinui, taip pat ir Nacionalinei Martyno Mažvydo bibliotekai už jos svetingumą …”
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Perivascular Wall Tumor in the Brain of a Dog by Margaret Cohn-Urbach, Annie Chen, Gary Haldorson, Stephanie Thomovsky

“…A 9-year-old spayed female German shepherd mixed-breed dog presented for seizures. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed an irregularly marginated intraparenchymal cerebral mass. …”
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Thyroid Storm Triggered by Rotavirus Infection in a 10-Year-Old Girl by Masazumi Miyahara, Shizuka Otsuki

“…In more severe cases, it can also lead to altered consciousness and seizures. These symptoms can resemble those of TS, even in the absence of pre-existing hyperthyroidism. …”
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Successful Treatment of Hemifacial Myokymia and Dystonia Associated to Linear Scleroderma “En Coup de Sabre” with Repeated Botox Injections by Carlos A. Cañas, Jorge L. Orozco, Andrea Caicedo Paredes, Fabio Bonilla-Abadía

“…It has been reported in association with diverse neurological manifestations like seizures, migraine, neuromyotonia, dystonia and abnormalities in MRI and CT studies as cerebral atrophy, white matter lesions, intraparenchymal calcification, meningeocortical alterations, and skull atrophy. …”
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New Onset Insomnia in a Pediatric Patient: A Case of Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis by Tamar N. Goldberg, Michael F. Cellucci

“…Certain clinical features such as mood lability, movement disorders, speech dysfunction, seizures, and autonomic instability in a pediatric patient should prompt immediate concern and evaluation for autoimmune encephalitis among providers. …”
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Postictal Psychosis: Case Report and Literature Review by Joana Regala, João Lourenço, Francisco Moniz-Pereira, António Bento

“…Our case report describes a clinical picture of PIP, characterized by pleomorphic features, with neither Schneider’s first-rank symptoms nor negative symptoms of schizophrenia, in a longstanding epileptic female patient with a history of nonadherence to antiepileptic treatment and poorly controlled seizures. Additionally, she had previous cognitive impairment and encephalomalacia in the right parietooccipital region as a sequela of a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury known to precede the emergence of the epilepsy. …”
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MRI findings in organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy: A case report by Salma Moussaoui, Salma El Ouadih, Anas Orgi, Aicha Merzem, Hasna Belgadir, Omar Amriss, Nadia Moussali, Naima El Benna

“…Four weeks postingestion, the patient developed progressive neurological deterioration with motor deficits, seizures, and altered consciousness. MRI revealed diffuse hyperintensities in the corpus callosum, subcortical white matter, and other central nervous system structures, consistent with organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy (OPIDN). …”
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Incidental Rickets in the Emergency Department Setting by John V. Zurlo, Shaun R. Wagner

“…Developmental delay and related complications of seizure and tetany have also been reported. This medical entity is often thought of as a classic medical disease of the past. …”
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Utopie – ostalgie – nostalgie : aller-retour en ex-RDA by Marina Chauliac

“…The nostalgia of GDR from a political perspective represents another relationship with the past : it is not any more «nostalgia without memory», nor nostalgia as a reaction of all current inequality, but a «retrogressive Utopia», according to the terms of Jean Séguy, to be understood as a reversed form of a projection in future.…”
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