Effect of duration of sodium valproate therapy on bone mineral density and vitamin D levels
CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest a significant negative impact of prolonged sodium valproate use on both bone density and Vitamin D levels in pediatric patients. These results underscore the importance of monitoring and managing bone health in children receiving long-term sodium valproate therapy.PMID:38447300 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109733 (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 6, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Dinesh Nirmal Samee Abdul Poornima Jaiswal S Naunihal Singh Amit Avaragollapuravarga Mathada Preeti Nagaraj Source Type: research
Characteristics and outcomes of youth with functional seizures attending intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment
This study examined clinical characteristics and outcomes of youth with FS (13-23 years) presenting to a pediatric intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment (IIPT) program in the midwestern United States. Sixty youth (mean age = 16.5 years; 83.3 % female) met inclusion criteria. At intake, comorbid chronic pain, somatic symptoms, autonomic dysfunction, eating and weight disturbances, and mental health concerns were common. Despite this high symptom burden, youth with FS reported significant improvements in functioning measured with the Functional Disability Inventory, t(53) = 9.80, p <.001, d = 1.32; depression measure...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 6, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Jennifer A Scheurich Kelsey M Klaas Leslie A Sim Karen E Weiss Hannah F Case Cynthia Harbeck-Weber Source Type: research
Pregnancy, antiseizure medications and unexplained intrauterine foetal death
CONCLUSIONS: Although it is possible that prenatal ASM exposure may increase the risk of IUFD, other non-pharmacological factors are more relevant to the occurrence to IUFD in pregnant WWE.PMID:38442517 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109724 (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 5, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Frank J E Vajda Terence J O'Brien Janet E Graham Alison E Hitchcock Piero Perucca Cecilie M Lander Mervyn J Eadie Source Type: research
Pregnancy, antiseizure medications and unexplained intrauterine foetal death
CONCLUSIONS: Although it is possible that prenatal ASM exposure may increase the risk of IUFD, other non-pharmacological factors are more relevant to the occurrence to IUFD in pregnant WWE.PMID:38442517 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109724 (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 5, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Frank J E Vajda Terence J O'Brien Janet E Graham Alison E Hitchcock Piero Perucca Cecilie M Lander Mervyn J Eadie Source Type: research
Patient experiences of resection versus responsive neurostimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy
This study explored illness experiences and decision-making among patients with epilepsy who underwent two different types of surgical interventions: resection versus implantation of the NeuroPace Responsive Neurostimulation System (RNS). We recruited 31 participants from a level four epilepsy center in an academic medical institution. We observed 22 patient clinic visits (resection: n = 10, RNS: n = 12) and conducted 18 in-depth patient interviews (resection: n = seven, RNS: n = 11); most visits and interviews included patient caregivers. Using an applied ethnographic approach, we identified three major themes in the expe...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Tobias Haeusermann Emily Yang Liu Kristina Celeste Fong Daniel Dohan Winston Chiong Source Type: research
The role of stand-alone videos in the diagnosis of seizures
Epilepsy Behav. 2024 Mar 1;153:109673. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109673. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe diagnosis of seizures and seizure mimics relies primarily on the history, but history has well-known limitations. Video recordings of events are a powerful extension of the history because they allow neurologists to view the events in question. In addition, they are readily available in situation, whereas the gold standard of EEG-video is not. That includes underserved or rural areas, and events that are too infrequent to be captured during a few days of EEG-video monitoring. Brief cellphone videos have been shown to ...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Ushtar Amin Selim R Benbadis Source Type: research
Patient experiences of resection versus responsive neurostimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy
This study explored illness experiences and decision-making among patients with epilepsy who underwent two different types of surgical interventions: resection versus implantation of the NeuroPace Responsive Neurostimulation System (RNS). We recruited 31 participants from a level four epilepsy center in an academic medical institution. We observed 22 patient clinic visits (resection: n = 10, RNS: n = 12) and conducted 18 in-depth patient interviews (resection: n = seven, RNS: n = 11); most visits and interviews included patient caregivers. Using an applied ethnographic approach, we identified three major themes in the expe...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Tobias Haeusermann Emily Yang Liu Kristina Celeste Fong Daniel Dohan Winston Chiong Source Type: research
The role of stand-alone videos in the diagnosis of seizures
Epilepsy Behav. 2024 Mar 1;153:109673. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109673. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe diagnosis of seizures and seizure mimics relies primarily on the history, but history has well-known limitations. Video recordings of events are a powerful extension of the history because they allow neurologists to view the events in question. In addition, they are readily available in situation, whereas the gold standard of EEG-video is not. That includes underserved or rural areas, and events that are too infrequent to be captured during a few days of EEG-video monitoring. Brief cellphone videos have been shown to ...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Ushtar Amin Selim R Benbadis Source Type: research
Patient experiences of resection versus responsive neurostimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy
This study explored illness experiences and decision-making among patients with epilepsy who underwent two different types of surgical interventions: resection versus implantation of the NeuroPace Responsive Neurostimulation System (RNS). We recruited 31 participants from a level four epilepsy center in an academic medical institution. We observed 22 patient clinic visits (resection: n = 10, RNS: n = 12) and conducted 18 in-depth patient interviews (resection: n = seven, RNS: n = 11); most visits and interviews included patient caregivers. Using an applied ethnographic approach, we identified three major themes in the expe...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Tobias Haeusermann Emily Yang Liu Kristina Celeste Fong Daniel Dohan Winston Chiong Source Type: research
The role of stand-alone videos in the diagnosis of seizures
Epilepsy Behav. 2024 Mar 1;153:109673. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109673. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe diagnosis of seizures and seizure mimics relies primarily on the history, but history has well-known limitations. Video recordings of events are a powerful extension of the history because they allow neurologists to view the events in question. In addition, they are readily available in situation, whereas the gold standard of EEG-video is not. That includes underserved or rural areas, and events that are too infrequent to be captured during a few days of EEG-video monitoring. Brief cellphone videos have been shown to ...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 2, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Ushtar Amin Selim R Benbadis Source Type: research
Tuberous sclerosis complex in adulthood: focus on epilepsy prognosis
CONCLUSIONS: In our cohort of adult patients with TSC, epilepsy remains one of the main neurological challenges with only 5.3% of cases manifesting in adulthood. Approximately 64% of these patients failed to achieve seizure remission. ID and multiple seizure types were the main predictors of poor outcome. Nephrological manifestations require continuous specific follow-up in adults.PMID:38428171 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109688 (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 1, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Laura Licchetta Giulia Bruschi Carlotta Stipa Laura Maria Beatrice Belotti Lorenzo Ferri Barbara Mostacci Luca Vignatelli Raffaella Minardi Lidia Di Vito Lorenzo Muccioli Antonella Boni Paolo Tinuper Francesca Bisulli Source Type: research
Socioeconomic status in adulthood of children with and without a history of seizures: A retrospective cohort study
CONCLUSION: Cognitive problems in childhood (using educational attainment and scores on primary school tests proxy markers for cognition) rather than a history of seizures per se, were associated with lower SES in a population of adults born 1950-56 in Aberdeen. This relationship may be different depending on the time in history and nation/region of study. Given the changes in health, education and social support in the management of children with seizures over time, it would be of interest to investigate outcomes in a contemporary cohort. Such studies should ideally have validated diagnoses of seizures, details on seizure...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 1, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Paolo P Mazzone Christopher J Weir Jacqueline Stephen Sohinee Bhattacharya Richard F M Chin Source Type: research
Epilepsy and education: A case-control analysis of the impact of an intensive epilepsy training program on undergraduate medical students
CONCLUSION: Our study showed that a 6-week intensive education program in epilepsy increased the knowledge and practical skills and changed the attitude toward patients with epilepsy of undergraduate students.PMID:38428173 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109717 (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 1, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Roberto Diaz-Peregrino Daniel San-Juan Aleida Arritola-Uriarte Álvaro Contreras-Salazar Jes ús Del Moral-Bastida Ra úl Miranda-Ojeda Source Type: research
Long-term memory consolidation of new words in children with self-limited epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes
Epilepsy Behav. 2024 Feb 29;153:109720. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109720. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAccelerated long-term forgetting has been studied and demonstrated in adults with epilepsy. In contrast, the question of long-term consolidation (delays > 1 day) in children with epilepsy shows conflicting results. However, childhood is a period of life in which the encoding and long-term storage of new words is essential for the development of knowledge and learning. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate long-term memory consolidation skills in children with self-limited epilepsy with centro-temporal spi...
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 1, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: C Mayor C Moser C Korff Source Type: research
Translation and validation of the Vietnamese Epilepsy Self-Management Scale (V-ESMS)
CONCLUSION: The 36-item V-ESMS with five domains presented good validity and reliability. This instrument could be used to assess self-management in people with epilepsy in Vietnam.PMID:38428175 | DOI:10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.109721 (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 1, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Minh-An Thuy Le Truong Thuong Nguyen Tuan Le Van Source Type: research
