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Alcohol consumption and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: experimental approach
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2009-12-01)
Using the pilocarpine model of epilepsy, we investigated the effects of alcohol consumption on the frequency of seizures in animals with epilepsy as well the underlying a possible association between alcohol intake and ...
Ictal fear: semiologic characteristics and differential diagnosis with interictal anxiety disorders
(Liga Brasileira de Epilepsia (LBE), 2006-06-01)
INTRODUCTION: Ictal fear (IF) is one of the most frequent emotional auras. It is the sole or predominant manifestation of simple partial seizures or initial expression of a complex partial seizure. It is more often experienced ...
When your child with epilepsy die suddenly: febrile seizures are part of the process?
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2011-01-01)
Febrile seizures (FS) affect almost 2-5% of children and factors related to an increase susceptibility of children to FS may involve an imbalance of inflammatory cytokines and genetic factors. FS had low morbidity, but may ...
Calcificação intracraniana occipital bilateral, epilepsia e doença celíaca: relato de caso
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2002-09-01)
We report a case of a six-year-old girl with frequent diarrhea episodes associated with ferroprive anemia from 6 months of age, normal neuromotor development and partial seizures initiated in her 3rd year which was controlled ...
Physical Exercise Restores the Generation of New born Neurons in an Animal Model of Chronic Epilepsy
(Frontiers Media Sa, 2017)
Neurogenesis impairment is associated with the chronic phase of the epilepsy in humans and also observed in animal models. Recent studies with animal models have shown that physical exercise is capable of improving ...
Epilepsia do lobo temporal: tratamento cirúrgico
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 1996-12-01)
The authors report the surgical management of 32 patients with medically intractable seizures. In all cases the epileptiform focus present in the temporal region was demonstrated by electroencephalography. Our report was ...
Pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus increases glutamate release in rat hippocampal synaptosomes
(Elsevier B.V., 2004-02-06)
A pronounced glutamate release has been related to neuronal death in several structures due to status epilepticus (SE). We investigated the glutamate uptake and release by both cortical and hippocampal synaptosome in ...
Epilepsy research 150 years after Darwin's theory of evolution
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2009-12-01)
On February 12, 2009, we commemorated the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the ûrst edition of the On the origin of species. Only in the sixth edition of the Origin ...
Alterações cardiovasculares e morte súbita nas epilepsias
(Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2007-06-01)
Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the most important direct epilepsy-related cause of death . The cause of SUDEP is still unknown, however, the most commonly ...
Serum magnesium: a clinical biomarker for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy?
(Liga Brasileira de Epilepsia (LBE), 2011-01-01)
INTRODUCTION: Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological disorder in the world and has a higher mortality rate than would be expected in a healthy population. One of the most related category of death is sudden ...