Astrocytes in the initiation and progression of epilepsy

A Vezzani, T Ravizza, P Bedner, E Aronica… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Epilepsy affects~ 65 million people worldwide. First-line treatment options include> 20
antiseizure medications, but seizure control is not achieved in approximately one-third of …

[HTML][HTML] Psychobehavioural and cognitive adverse events of anti-seizure medications for the treatment of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

A Strzelczyk, S Schubert-Bast - CNS drugs, 2022 - Springer
The developmental and epileptic encephalopathies encompass a group of rare syndromes
characterised by severe drug-resistant epilepsy with onset in childhood and significant …

The tuberous sclerosis complex

PB Crino, KL Nathanson… - New England Journal of …, 2006 - Mass Medical Soc
The tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a multisystem, autosomal dominant disorder
affecting children and adults, results from mutations in one of two genes, TSC1 (encoding …

Advances in the genetics and neuropathology of tuberous sclerosis complex: edging closer to targeted therapy

P Curatolo, N Specchio, E Aronica - The Lancet Neurology, 2022 - thelancet.com
Tuberous sclerosis complex is a rare genetic disease associated with mutations in the TSC1
or TSC2 genes, which cause overactivation of the mTOR complex. In the past 5 years …

Epileptogenesis in tuberous sclerosis complex-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

E Aronica, N Specchio, MJ Luinenburg, P Curatolo - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Epileptogenesis in infants with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a gradual and dynamic
process, leading to early onset and difficult-to-treat seizures. Several cellular, molecular and …

EANO-EURACAN-SNO Guidelines on circumscribed astrocytic gliomas, glioneuronal, and neuronal tumors

R Rudà, D Capper, AD Waldman, J Pallud… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In the new WHO 2021 Classification of CNS Tumors the chapter “Circumscribed astrocytic
gliomas, glioneuronal and neuronal tumors” encompasses several different rare tumor …

Early treatment with vigabatrin does not decrease focal seizures or improve cognition in tuberous sclerosis complex: the PREVeNT trial

EM Bebin, JM Peters, BE Porter… - Annals of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that early vigabatrin treatment in
tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) infants improves neurocognitive outcome at 24 months of …

[HTML][HTML] Tuberous sclerosis complex

H Northrup, MK Koenig, DA Pearson, KS Au - 2021 - europepmc.org
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) involves abnormalities of the skin (hypomelanotic
macules, confetti skin lesions, facial angiofibromas, shagreen patches, fibrous cephalic …

[PDF][PDF] Comprehensive genetic and phenotype analysis of 95 individuals with mosaic tuberous sclerosis complex

K Klonowska, K Giannikou, JM Grevelink… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a neurogenetic disorder due to loss-of-function TSC1
or TSC2 variants, characterized by tumors affecting multiple organs, including skin, brain …

[HTML][HTML] mTOR pathway: insights into an established pathway for brain mosaicism in epilepsy

A Gerasimenko, S Baldassari, S Baulac - Neurobiology of Disease, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway is an essential regulator of
numerous cellular activities such as metabolism, growth, proliferation, and survival. The …