ALLMedicine™ Seizures Center

Mar 5th, 2021 - Arterial spin labeling, a magnetic resonance imaging modality that can evaluate cerebral perfusion without using a contrast material or ionizing radiation, is becoming increasingly accessible. However, only a few reports have used this method to a...

Mar 5th, 2021 - The increased identification of seizures with insular ictal onset, promoted by the international development of stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG), has led to the recent description of larger cohorts of patients with insular or insulo-opercular ...

Mar 5th, 2021 - Lichenoid drug eruption is rare and can mimic idiopathic lichen planus and other dermatoses. Clonazepam, a commonly used drug for the treatment of anxiety-related disorders and seizures, is known to be an unlikely cause of cutaneous adverse effect...

Mar 4th, 2021 - Advances in genome sequencing have identified over 1300 mutations in the SCN1A sodium channel gene that result in genetic epilepsies. However, it still remains unclear how most individual mutations within SCN1A result in seizures. A previous study...

Mar 4th, 2021 - In the mammalian hippocampus, adult-born granule cells (abGCs) contribute to the function of the dentate gyrus (DG). Disruption of the DG circuitry causes spontaneous recurrent seizures (SRS), which can lead to epilepsy. Although abGCs contribute ...

May 6th, 2020 - Seizures and epilepsy are a set of conditions that can be challenging to diagnose, treat, and manage. This document summarizes recommendations for imaging in different clinical scenarios for a patient presenting with seizures and epilepsy. MRI of ...

May 6th, 2020 - Stroke is an uncommon but an important and under-recognized cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Strokes may be due to either brain ischemia or intracranial hemorrhage. Common symptoms of pediatric acute stroke include headache, vomiting,...

Jul 21st, 2019 - Herbs, including cilantro, have a long history of use as folk medicine anticonvulsants. Until now, many of the underlying mechanisms of how the herbs worked remained unknown. In a new study, researchers uncovered the molecular action that enables ...

Apr 2nd, 2019 - The FDA has become aware that some people who use e-cigarettes have experienced seizures, with most reports involving youth or young adult users. Seizures or convulsions are known potential side effects of nicotine toxicity and have been reported ...

Feb 7th, 2019 - Absence seizures (AS) are brief epileptic seizures which present in childhood and adolescence. Depending on clinical features and electroencephalogram (EEG) findings they are divided into typical, atypical absences, and absences with special featu...

Mar 5th, 2021 - Arterial spin labeling, a magnetic resonance imaging modality that can evaluate cerebral perfusion without using a contrast material or ionizing radiation, is becoming increasingly accessible. However, only a few reports have used this method to a...

Mar 5th, 2021 - The increased identification of seizures with insular ictal onset, promoted by the international development of stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG), has led to the recent description of larger cohorts of patients with insular or insulo-opercular ...

Mar 5th, 2021 - Lichenoid drug eruption is rare and can mimic idiopathic lichen planus and other dermatoses. Clonazepam, a commonly used drug for the treatment of anxiety-related disorders and seizures, is known to be an unlikely cause of cutaneous adverse effect...

Mar 4th, 2021 - Advances in genome sequencing have identified over 1300 mutations in the SCN1A sodium channel gene that result in genetic epilepsies. However, it still remains unclear how most individual mutations within SCN1A result in seizures. A previous study...

Mar 4th, 2021 - In the mammalian hippocampus, adult-born granule cells (abGCs) contribute to the function of the dentate gyrus (DG). Disruption of the DG circuitry causes spontaneous recurrent seizures (SRS), which can lead to epilepsy. Although abGCs contribute ...

Jan 3rd, 2021 - When fourth-year medical student Chevelle Winchester was finishing her psychiatry rotation in Chicago under neurologist and psychiatrist Alan R. Hirsch, MD, she encountered a patient in her late 20s who was experiencing almost daily seizures. "The...

Dec 22nd, 2020 - Women with epilepsy do not have an increased seizure rate during pregnancy as long as they have their medication levels carefully monitored, a new study suggests. The study showed very similar fluctuations in seizure rates in women with epilepsy d...

Dec 14th, 2020 - Individuals who have experienced sexual trauma have more than a tenfold increased risk of developing psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs) and are also more likely to suffer a stroke, new research shows. "These patients are experiencing a pret...

Dec 8th, 2020 - A wrist-worn device that uses machine learning accurately detects different seizure types in findings that have the potential to revolutionize the management of patients with epilepsy. Jianbin Tang "We have set a first benchmark for automatic dete...

Nov 9th, 2020 - Late-onset epilepsy is linked to a substantial increased risk of subsequent dementia. Results of a retrospective analysis show that patients who develop epilepsy at age 67 or older have a threefold increased risk of subsequent dementia vs their co...