Epilepsy & Behavior

Publication date: February 2017Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 67
Author(s): Amanda Fuentes, Elizabeth N. Kerr

Publication date: February 2017Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 67
Author(s): Chung-Ying Lin, Andrea Burri, Bengt Fridlund, Amir H. Pakpour

Publication date: January 2017Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 66
Author(s): Tanveer Singh, Rajesh Kumar Goel
Depression is one of the major psychiatric comorbidities having a major impact on the quality of life in people with epilepsy (PWE). Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are considered as safest therapy for the treatment of depression in PWE. Although administration of SSRIs increases the synaptic serotonin levels, it decreases the overall serotonin ...

Publication date: January 2017Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 66
Author(s): Dario J. Englot, Kevin H. Hassnain, John D. Rolston, Stephen C. Harward, Saurabh R. Sinha, Michael M. Haglund

Publication date: January 2017Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 66
Author(s): Silje Systad, Marit Bjørnvold, Rune Markhus, Solveig-Alma H. Lyster
We studied the language and linguistic-cognitive abilities of a group of children with nocturnal epileptiform activity (NEA; N=33) who were hospitalized at a tertiary epilepsy hospital. The children were compared with two groups: one age- and gender-matched group (N=33) and one ...

Publication date: January 2017Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 66
Author(s): Judith Chew, Anne M Haase, John Carpenter

Publication date: January 2017Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 66
Author(s): Aglaia Vignoli, Miriam Nella Savini, Maria Sonia Nowbut, Angela Peron, Katherine Turner, Francesca La Briola, Maria Paola Canevini
Approximately 60–80% of girls with Rett Syndrome (RTT) have epilepsy, which represents one of the most severe problems clinicians have to deal with, especially when patients are 7–12years old.

Publication date: January 2017Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 66
Author(s): Sweta Joshi, Arezou Bayat, Linda Gagnon, Donald C. Shields, Mohamad Z. Koubeissi
The primary function of yawning is not fully understood. We report a case in which electrical stimulation of the putamen in the human brain consistently elicited yawning. A 46-year-old woman with intractable epilepsy had invasive depth electrode monitoring and cortical ...

Publication date: Available online 10 December 2016Source:Epilepsy & Behavior
Author(s): I. Osorio, M. Markert

Publication date: December 2016Source:Epilepsy & Behavior, Volume 65
Author(s): Altaf Saadi, Bryan Patenaude, Farrah J. Mateen
Quality of life is a pragmatic endpoint for understanding the experience of people with epilepsy (PWE) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where>80% of PWE reside. However, the literature is bereft of QOL in epilepsy (QOLIE) studies among LMICs and knowledge of the variation in QOLIE globally. ...