When MRI fails to detect a potentially epileptogenic lesion, the chance of a favorable outcome after epilepsy surgery becomes significantly lower (from 60 to 90% to 20–65%). Hybrid FDG-PET/MRI may provide addi... Márton Tóth, Péter Barsi, Zoltán Tóth, Katalin Borbély, János Lückl, Miklós Emri, Imre Repa, József Janszky, Tamás Dóczi, Zsolt Horváth, Péter Halász, Vera Juhos, Csilla Gyimesi, Beáta Bóné, Diána Kuperczkó, Réka Horváth ..read more

Continuous spike and wave of sleep with encephalopathy (CSWS) is a rare and severe developmental electroclinical epileptic encephalopathy characterized by seizures, abundant sleep activated interictal epilepti... S. M. Stoyell, B. S. Baxter, J. McLaren, H. Kwon, D. M. Chinappen, L. Ostrowski, L. Zhu, J. A. Grieco, M. A. Kramer, A. K. Morgan, B. C. Emerton, D. S. Manoach and C. J. Chu ..read more

This study aimed to investigate the association between nutritional characteristics in patients with refractory convulsive status epilepticus ..read more

The relationship between the HLA-B*1502 gene and maculopapular exanthema (MPE) induced by antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) has not yet been elucidated. In this study, we investigated the association between AED-indu... Nilupaer Shafeng, Deng-feng Han, Yun-fang Ma, Rena Abudusalamu and Binuer Ayitimuhan ..read more

Epileptic seizures can be difficult to distinguish from other etiologies that cause cerebral hypoxia, especially cardiac diseases. Long QT syndrome (LQTS), especially LQTS type 2 (LQT2), frequently masquerades... Huicong Kang, Lili Lan, Yuchao Jia, Cun Li, Yongkang Fang, Suiqiang Zhu and Heidi Kirsch ..read more

The aim of this study was to investigate alterations in structural connectivity and structural co-variance network in patients with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD). Dong Ah Lee, Ho-Joon Lee, Hyung Chan Kim and Kang Min Park ..read more

To summarize the clinical characteristics of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), and to identify the factors affecting the latency of PTE after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Tingting Yu, Xiao Liu, Lei Sun, Jianping Wu and Qun Wang ..read more

Epilepsy is a severe chronic neurologic disease with a prevalence of 0.7% worldwide; anti-seizure medications (ASMs) are the mainstay of epilepsy treatment. The effects of sociodemographic factors on the chara... Qiong Zhu, Yi Guo, Shuai Ma, Lili Yang, Zhonghua Lin, Hongbin Sun, Guangzong Li and Liang Yu ..read more

Lacosamide (LCM) is the antiepileptic drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2008 that facilitates slow activation of the voltage-gated sodium channels. Neutropenia and cardiac events includ... Makoto Shibata, Reona Hoshino, Chisato Shimizu, Masayuki Sato, Natsumi Furuta and Yoshio Ikeda ..read more

Extreme delta brush (EDB) is considered a potential marker for anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis. The brain regions involved in EDB are unclear. Ailiang Miao, Yongwei Shi, Jing Xiang, Xiaoshan Wang, Jianqing Ge, Qiqi Chen, Yuanwen Yu, Chuanyong Yu and Di Wu ..read more