partial epilepsy

Idiopathic partial epilepsy begins in childhood (between ages 5 and 8) and may have a family history.

Responsive cortical stimulation for the treatment of medically intractable partial epilepsy.

In general, patients present fixed neurologic deficits and develop partial epilepsy between the ages of 6 and 10.

Common symptoms are partial epilepsy, asymmetric spasticity, ataxia and cognitive impairment.

Lamotrigine add-on for drug-resistant partial epilepsy.

Most tonic-clonic seizures in adults begin as partial seizures and are caused by partial epilepsy.

On November 30, 1999, levetiracetam was approved for the adjunctive treatment of partial epilepsy in adults in the United States.

ADNFLE is a partial epilepsy disorder characterized by brief violent seizures during sleep.

Patients with complex partial epilepsy refractory to medical treatment, and who had been assessed for epilepsy surgery, were studied between April, 1989 and October, 1992.

Using one particular definition, one group of scientists found that around one-third of women with intractable partial epilepsy have catamenial epilepsy.

Focal epilepsy, also called partial epilepsy, is a seizure disorder in which seizures are preceded by an isolated disturbance of a cerebral function.

An Italian team used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study three patients with TSC and partial epilepsy.

Symptomatic women with subependymal heterotopia typically present with partial epilepsy during the second decade of life; development and neurologic examinations up to that point are typically normal.

FocusDET: Accurate localization of epileptogenic foci in intractable partial epilepsy is essential for assessing the possibility of surgery as a treatment.

Perampanel (trade name: Fycompa) received Marketing Authorisation Approval by the European Commission for the treatment of partial epilepsy on July 27, 2012.

Sultiame became established as a second-line drug for treatment of partial epilepsy in the 1960s and 1970s and was often used in combination with the established anticonvulsant phenytoin.

The most common subdivision of epilepsy is symptomatic partial epilepsy, which causes simple partial seizures, and can be further divided into temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy.

Macropsia has a wide range of causes, from prescription and illicit drugs, to migraines and (rarely) complex partial epilepsy, and to different retinal conditions, such as epiretinal membrane.

While generalized epilepsy occurs all over the brain, partial epilepsy consists of a regional or localized hyperactivity, which means that the seizures occur conversely in one part of the brain or several parts at once.

The concentrations of glutamate and -aminobutyric acid (GABA), the brain's major inhibitory neutrotransmitter, were measured in microdialysates before and during seizures in 6 patients with complex partial epilepsy investigated before surgery.

Although the exact number of cases of frontal lobe epilepsy is not currently known, it is known that FLE is the less common type of partial epilepsy, accounting for 20-30% of operative procedures involving intractable epilepsy.

Following genetic linkage studies placing the hereditary form of autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with Auditory features (ADPEAF) on chromosome region 10q24 mutation analysis of affected members in these families demonstrated LGI1 was the cause of the disease.