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EPILEPSY, med. jur. A disease of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with uncertain intervals between them.
2. These paroxysms are characterized by the loss of sensation, and convulsive motions of the muscles. When long continued and violent, this disease is very apt to end in dementia. (q.v.) It gradually destroys the memory, and impairs the intellect, and is one of the causes of an unsound mind. 8 Ves. 87. Vide Dig. 50, 16, 123; Id. 21, 1, 4, 5.

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Haut, M.D., from the Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., and colleagues randomized 66 adults with medication-resistant focal epilepsy to 12 weeks of either PMR with diaphragmatic breathing or control focused-attention activity with extremity movements.

Stress Reduction May Help Reduce Epileptic Seizures; Both focused attention and progressive muscle relaxation techniques cut seizures

Bektas et al., "Lacosamide treatment of childhood refractory focal epilepsy: the first reported side effect in paediatric patients," Child's Nervous System, vol.

Effectiveness and Adverse Effect of Intravenous Lacosamide in Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus and Acute Repetitive Seizures in Children

In spite of more than 15 antiepileptic drugs employing different modes of action to suppress or prevent seizures, with frequent mild-to-severe adverse effects, around ~30% of patients, particularly suffering from focal epilepsy, remain resistant to drug treatment [1].

High-Frequency Oscillations in the Scalp Electroencephalogram: Mission Impossible without Computational Intelligence

Recent work has demonstrated the potential of network metrics derived from rs-fMRI to provide clinically meaningful markers of cognitive function in adults [5, 6], in healthy children [7], and in children with focal epilepsy [5-8].

Mutual Information Better Quantifies Brain Network Architecture in Children with Epilepsy

In this paper, we propose a novel workflow for depicting seizure occurrence in refractory focal epilepsy. This network-based workflow detects the seizure occurrence and monitors the total seizure course, which is the first work aiming at monitoring alteration of network reorganizations throughout seizures as far as we know.

Link Prediction Investigation of Dynamic Information Flow in Epilepsy

The means and standard deviations for RCFT Immediate Recall according to sex and lateralization of focal epilepsy are shown in Table 2.

NONVERBAL MEMORY CAPACITY IN PERSONS WITH EPILEPSY IS ASSOCIATED WITH DEPRESSION RATHER THAN ANXIETY

We also report two focal epilepsy patients with insular involvement, followed in the Department of Neurology.

Cortical lateralization and cardiac autonomic control. Insights from insular stroke and epilepsy

Antiepileptic Drugs Under Investigation for Treatment of Focal Epilepsy. Clin Neuropharmacol.

The long-term prognosis of epilepsy patients with medically treated over a period of eight years in Turkey

Classification of epileptic patients according to their clinical history and EEG findings indicated that 59 (71.1%) had generalized and 24 (28.9%) had focal epilepsy syndromes.

Evaluation of hippocampal infolding angle and incomplete hippocampal inversion in pediatric patients with epilepsy and febrile seizures

This study aimed to verify the performance obtained by children with benign focal epilepsy in childhood and children without epilepsy in neuropsychological tests of attention and executive functions.

Cognitive impact in children with "benign" childhood focal epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes

M2 EQUITYBITES-June 23, 2017-Data reveals Zebinix has no significant negative consequences on neurocognitive function in children with focal epilepsy

Data reveals Zebinix has no significant negative consequences on neurocognitive function in children with focal epilepsy

"Temporal lobe epilepsy is a form of focal epilepsy with seizures originating from the brain's temporal lobe.