Infantile spasms and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome are rare but are important to child
neurologists because of the intractable nature of the seizures and the serious neurologic …

Introduction The evidence relating vaccination to febrile seizures and epilepsy is evaluated
with an emphasis on febrile seizures (FS), Dravet syndrome (DS), West syndrome, and other …

Epileptic encephalopathies are severe brain disorders in which the epileptic electrical
discharges may contribute to progressive psychomotor dysfunction. 1–14 They start at an …

Objective To assess factors associated with favorable seizure outcome after surgery for
symptomatic epileptic spasms and improve knowledge on pathophysiology of this seizure …

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5, e124-152, November 1, 2000] 124 TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY:
EXISTING THERAPIES AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS Si Page 1 [Frontiers in Bioscience 5 …

When mimicking epileptic processes in a laboratory setting, it is important to understand the
differences between experimental models of seizures and epilepsy. Because human …

Clinical outcomes related to congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) include microcephaly
accompanied by specific brain injuries. Among several CZS outcomes that have been …

We examined prospectively a series of 150 children with epilepsy beginning in the first year
of life. We classified the types of epilepsy into five categories: West syndrome, other epileptic …

Neuroimaging studies with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission
tomography (PET) scanning have contributed significantly to our understanding of West …

Background Perinatal hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) has been linked to the
development of late‐onset seizures. The aim of the present study was to determine the …