Cognitive and neurodevelopmental comorbidities in paediatric epilepsy

KC Nickels, MJ Zaccariello, LD Hamiwka… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Cognitive and behavioural comorbidities are often seen in children with epilepsy, and are
more common and severe in refractory epilepsy. These comorbidities are associated with …

Clinical and biological progress over 50 years in Rett syndrome

H Leonard, S Cobb, J Downs - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2017 - nature.com
In the 50 years since Andreas Rett first described the syndrome that came to bear his name,
and is now known to be caused by a mutation in the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) …

Rett syndrome: a genetic update and clinical review focusing on comorbidities

WA Gold, R Krishnarajy, C Ellaway… - ACS chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a unique neurodevelopmental disorder that primarily affects females
resulting in severe cognitive and physical disabilities. Despite the commendable collective …

Longitudinal course of epilepsy in Rett syndrome and related disorders

DC Tarquinio, W Hou, A Berg, WE Kaufmann, JB Lane… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Epilepsy is common in Rett syndrome, an X-linked dominant disorder caused by mutations
in the MECP2 gene, and in Rett-related disorders, such as MECP2 duplication. However …

Efficacy and safety of cannabidivarin treatment of epilepsy in girls with Rett syndrome: A phase 1 clinical trial

EN Hurley, CJ Ellaway, AM Johnson, L Truong… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Rett syndrome (RTT), commonly caused by methyl‐CpG‐binding protein 2
(MECP2) pathogenic variants, has many comorbidities. Fifty to ninety percent of children …

Comparison of core features in four developmental encephalopathies in the Rett natural history study

C Cutri‐French, D Armstrong, J Saby… - Annals of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Rett syndrome, CDKL5‐deficiency disorder, FOXG1 disorder, and MECP2
duplication disorder are developmental encephalopathies with shared and distinct features …

[HTML][HTML] Rett syndrome spectrum in monogenic developmental-epileptic encephalopathies and epilepsies: a review

C Spagnoli, C Fusco, F Pisani - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Introduction: Progress in the clinical application of next-generation-sequencing-based
techniques has resulted in a dramatic increase in the recognized genetic heterogeneity of …

Outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy from adolescence to adulthood: transition issues

R Nabbout, DM Andrade, N Bahi-Buisson, H Cross… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
This is the second of three papers that summarize the second symposium on Transition in
Epilepsies held in Paris in June 2016. This paper addresses the outcome for some …

Neurobiologically-based treatments in Rett syndrome: opportunities and challenges

WE Kaufmann, JL Stallworth, DB Everman… - Expert opinion on …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Rett syndrome (RTT) is an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder that primarily
affects females, typically resulting in a period of developmental regression in early childhood …

[HTML][HTML] Rett syndrome: a wide clinical and autonomic picture

G Pini, S Bigoni, L Congiu, AM Romanelli… - Orphanet journal of rare …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Rett Syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder almost exclusively
affecting females, characterized by a broad clinical spectrum of signs and symptoms and a …