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Introduction: Despite optimal medical treatment, up to 30% of patients with epilepsy continue to experience recurrent seizures, and the challenge for new more efficacious and better-tolerated drugs is continuing. New antiepileptic drugs include the evolution of preexisting drugs and new compounds identified through the investigation of...
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2015 (v1)Publication
Purpose: To assess if absence seizures (ASs) occur in patients with myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (MEI). Methods: A retrospective chart review was conducted in 37 patients with MEI followed at seven different paediatric epilepsy centres in Italy, between 2002 and 2014. To assess the possible occurrence of pure ASs or absences associated with...
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2021 (v1)Publication
The study of dementia and epilepsy may provide particular insight into behavioural alterations. We describe a rare case of ictal aggressive behaviour in a patient with focal epilepsy associated with a non-dominant dorso-lateral prefrontal lesion. During focal seizures, our patient showed intense agitation and anger, for a long time...
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2015 (v1)Publication
Purpose: When we published the diagnostic criteria for ''ictal epileptic headache'' in 2012, we deliberately and consciously chose to adopt restrictive criteria that probably underestimate the phenomenon, rather than spread panic among patients and physicians who are reluctant to accept this entity. Methods: Here we discuss four intriguing...
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2022 (v1)Publication
Background The rate of chronic drooling in children older than 4 years is 0.5%, but it rises to 60% in those with neurological disorders. Physical and psychosocial consequences lead to a reduction in the quality of Life (QoL) of affected patients; however, the problem remains under-recognized and under-treated. We conducted an Italian consensus...
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2016 (v1)Publication
Objective: Seizures may occur in close temporal association with a stroke or after a variable interval. Moreover, epilepsy is often encountered in patients with leukoaraiosis. Although early post-stroke seizures have been studied extensively, less attention has been paid to post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) and to epilepsy associated with...
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2015 (v1)Publication
Epilepsy affects approximately 3 % of the world's population, and sudden death is a significant cause of death in this population. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) accounts for up to 17 % of all these cases, which increases the rate of sudden death by 24-fold as compared to the general population. The underlying mechanisms are still...
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2021 (v1)Publication
To describe the clinical and genetic findings in a cohort of subjects with bathing epilepsy, a rare form of reflex epilepsy.
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2019 (v1)Publication
Introduction: The microbiota-gut brain (MGB) axis is the bidirectional communication between the intestinal microbiota and the brain. An increasing body of preclinical and clinical evidence has revealed that the gut microbial ecosystem can affect neuropsychiatric health. However, there is still a need of further studies to elucidate the complex...
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