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Latest (6) Full Text Articles (365) Focus on Neurological Infections861 Continuous high-frequency activity in mesial temporal lobe structures Epilepsia, April 23, 2012
862 Psychopathology in children before and after surgery for extratemporal lobe epilepsy Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, April 20, 2012
863 Postponing the morning dose of AEDs: effect on the epileptiform EEG activity Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, April 19, 2012
864 Cognitive outcome after stereotactic amygdalohippocampectomy Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy, April 19, 2012
865 Mapping the availability, price, and affordability of antiepileptic drugs in 46 countries Epilepsia, April 19, 2012
866 Western driving regulations for unprovoked first seizures and epilepsy Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy, April 19, 2012
867 Seizures and Epilepsy in Alzheimers Disease CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, April 18, 2012
868 Predicting the Unpredictable: Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Epilepsy Currents, April 18, 2012
869 Seizures in 204 comatose children: incidence and outcome Intensive Care Medicine, April 17, 2012
870 Is incident drug-resistance of childhood-onset epilepsy reversible. A long-term follow-up study Full Text Brain, April 16, 2012
871 Predictors of positive and negative attitudes toward their condition in Turkish individuals with epilepsy Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy, April 16, 2012
872 Intracranial electrodes in the presurgical evaluation of epilepsy Neurological Sciences, April 16, 2012
873 The Localizing and Lateralizing Value of Auras in Lesional Partial Epilepsy Patients Full Text Yonsei Medical Journal, April 13, 2012
874 C-reactive protein and seizures in focal epilepsy: A video-electroencephalographic study Epilepsia, April 13, 2012
875 Efficacy of the ketogenic diet in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: a retrospective review of one institutions experience and summary of the literature Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, April 13, 2012
876 Genetic and Epileptic Features in Rett Syndrome Full Text Yonsei Medical Journal, April 13, 2012
877 A decisional space for fMRI pattern separation using the principal component analysis-A comparative study of language networks in pediatric epilepsy Human Brain Mapping, April 12, 2012
878 Juvenile Huntingtons disease presenting as difficult-to-treat seizure and the first episode of psychosis General Hospital Psychiatry, April 12, 2012
879 Prognostic factors for time to treatment failure and time to 12 months of remission for patients with focal epilepsy: post-hoc, subgroup analyses of data from the SANAD trial The Lancet Neurology, April 11, 2012 Clinical Article
880 Postictal generalized EEG suppression is linked to seizure-associated respiratory dysfunction but not postictal apnea Epilepsia, April 11, 2012
Clinical Pearls in Neurology
- Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may be associated with a reduced risk of incident overall dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
- 3 months’ topiramate therapy for migraine prophylaxis decreases waist circumference, abdominal skinfold measurements, and body fat ratio
- For individuals with epilepsy, the risk having a broadly defined psychotic disorder is increased by 5.5-fold. The risk of having bipolar disorder is increased by 6.3-fold, and of having schizophrenia increases by 8.5-fold
Highlights in Neurology
Trans fat intake increases risk of ischemic stroke
In a study involving 87,025 postmenopausal women in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study, there were 1049 incident cases of ischemic stroke over 663,041 person-years of follow-up. Women in the highest quintile of trans fat intake were at increased risk of ischemic stroke (HR = 1.39) compared with women in the lowest quintile of trans fat intake. Aspirin use modulated the effect of trans fats; ASA users and ASA non-users had HRs for ischemic stroke of 0.95 and 1.66, respectively. Saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fat intake were not associated with ischemic stroke.
Read the article summaryNew risk factors for chronic migraine identified
As published in the Journal of Neurological Sciences, increase tea consumption (> 4 cups/d), and diet consisting of hot and spicy foods, and weight gain increase the likelihood of chronicity in patients with episodic migraines. During a 12-month prospective study involving 188 patients with episodic migraines, 17.7% developed chronic, daily migraines. Other risk factors included low education, a high frequency of headaches, headaches of long duration, allodynia, and increased symptomatic treatment of headaches.
Read the article summaryGinsenoside-Rd improves outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke
In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, the calcium channel antagonist, ginsenoside-Rd, has been shown to improve functional outcomes in patients (n=386) with acute ischemic strokes. The patients received a 14-day infusion of ginsenoside-Rd within 72 hours of stroke onset. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Score was improved at 15 days and the modified Rankin score was improved at 90 days (OR = 1.74).
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