Articles

Correction to: Ictal semiology, functional anatomy and multimodal diagnostic in patients with insular epilepsies

After publication of this article [1], it is noticed there are errors with figure numbering and matching between figure artwork and caption with Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Authors: Hermann Stefan and Stephanie Gollwitzer

Ictal semiology, functional anatomy and multimodal diagnostic in patients with insular epilepsies

The insula is a hidden part in the cerebral cortex. Insular epilepsy is underrecognized and it bears a special risk for misdiagnosis with regard to nonepileptic seizures or wrong localization of epileptic seiz...

Authors: Hermann Stefan and Stephanie Gollwitzer

A clinical and pathological study in patients with sudden unexpected death in Epilepsy

Sudden unexpected death of epilepsy (SUDEP) is a severe outcome of epilepsy. This study aimed to report the clinical and pathological findings in patients with SUDEP.

Authors: Weihua Yu, Ying Zhu, Qingshu Li, Xin Tian, Peng Zhang and Yang Lü

Differential diagnosis between epileptic seizures and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures based on semiology

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures present as paroxysmal symptoms and signs mimicking epileptic seizures. The gold standard test is the synchronous recording by video, electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram...

Authors: Xiaohui Xiang, Jiajia Fang and Yi Guo

Cases with parietal and occipital lobe epilepsies

For seizures emerging from the posterior cortex it can be a challenge to differentiate if they belong to temporal, parietal or occipital epilepsies. Sensoric auras like visual phenomena may occur in all of the...

Authors: Hermann Stefan

SiRNA-mediated ankyrin-G silence modulates the expression of voltage-gated Na channels in murine hippocampal HT22 cells

Voltage-gated sodium channels are the targets of many commonly used antiepileptic drugs. Na_V1.6, encoded by Scn8a, increased in chronic mesial temporal epilepsy animal models and co-localized with Ankyrin-G, enco...

Authors: Guanzhong Ni, Xiaoting Hao, Xiaodong Cai, Jiaming Qin, Liemin Zhou, Patrick Kwan and Ziyi Chen

Strategies for epilepsy control in public health aspects

This article provides the authors’ recommendations of strategies for epilepsy control in public health aspects. Besides a brief review of some collaborative epilepsy control activities in public health aspects...

Authors: Shichuo Li, Ding Ding and Xiaoyan Liu

Systemic evidence of acute seizure-associated elevation in serum neuronal injury biomarker in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Patients with drug refractory temporal lobe epilepsy frequently accumulate cognitive impairment over time, suggesting loss of neurons induced by seizures. Our objective was to determine whether there is a temp...

Authors: Shailaja Kunda, Reghann G. LaFrance-Corey, Fatemeh Khadjevand, Gregory A. Worrell and Charles L. Howe

Acta Epileptologica: for sharing research advances in epilepsy research

Authors: Shichuo Li