National Association of Medical Examiners position paper: Recommendations for the investigation and certification of deaths in people with epilepsy

OL Middleton, DS Atherton… - Academic Forensic …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Sudden unexpected death of an individual with epilepsy (SUDEP) can pose a challenge to
death investigators, as most deaths are unwitnessed and the individual is commonly found …

Identifying and mitigating Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) risk factors

L Watkins, R Shankar, JW Sander - Expert review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) is a significant
cause of death for people with chronic epilepsy. Good practice guidance in the UK and the …

Nocturnal supervision and SUDEP risk at different epilepsy care settings

M van der Lende, DC Hesdorffer, JW Sander, RD Thijs - Neurology, 2018 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To estimate the incidence of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) in
people with intellectual disabilities in residential care settings and to ascertain the effects of …

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in patients treated with brain‐responsive neurostimulation

O Devinsky, D Friedman, RB Duckrow, NB Fountain… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To study the incidence and clinical features of sudden unexpected death in
epilepsy (SUDEP) in patients treated with direct brain‐responsive stimulation with the RNS …

Risk of unnatural mortality in people with epilepsy

HC Gorton, RT Webb, MJ Carr… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance People with epilepsy are at increased risk of mortality, but, to date, the cause-
specific risks of all unnatural causes have not been reported. Objective To estimate cause …

Under representation of people with epilepsy and intellectual disability in research

R Shankar, C Rowe, A Van Hoorn, W Henley… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Purpose One quarter of people with epilepsy have an intellectual disability (ID) and one fifth
of people with an ID have epilepsy. Both conditions are associated with higher levels of …

Lamotrigine‐resistant corneal‐kindled mice: a model of pharmacoresistant partial epilepsy for moderate‐throughput drug discovery

Z Koneval, KM Knox, HS White, M Barker‐Haliski - Epilepsia, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Despite numerous treatments for epilepsy, over 30% of patients remain resistant to
available antiseizure drugs (ASD s). Thus, there is a strong need for more effective ASD s for …

Surgical treatment of epilepsy in Vietnam: program development and international collaboration

BG Rocque, MC Davis, SG McClugage, DA Tuan… - Neurosurgical …, 2018 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The purpose of this report was to describe an international collaboration model
to facilitate the surgical treatment of children with epilepsy in Vietnam. METHODS This …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of window size in classification of epileptic short-term EEG signals using a Brain Computer Interface software

KD Tzimourta, LG Astrakas, AM Gianni… - … Technology & Applied …, 2018 - academia.edu
The complexity of epilepsy created a fertile ground for further research in automated
methods, attempting to help the epileptologists' task. Over the past years, great …

Examination of cause-of-death data quality among New York city deaths due to cancer, pneumonia, or diabetes from 2010 to 2014

L Falci, EJ Lee Argov, G Van Wye, M Plitt… - American journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The cause-of-death (COD) statement on the standard US death certificate is a valuable tool
for public health practice, but its utility is impaired by reporting inaccuracies. To assess the …