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  1. Ketogenic diet (KD) therapy is one of the main treatments for drug-resistant epilepsy. However, the KD therapy has been applied in only a small number of infantile spasm cases. In this large multicenter study,...

    Authors: Yuanzhen Ye, Dan Sun, Hua Li, Jianmin Zhong, Rong Luo, Baomin Li, Dengna Zhu, Dan Li, Shaoping Huang, Yuwu Jiang, Nong Xiao, Yucai Chen, Yuqin Zhang, Mei Yu, Xiaoyun Shen, Li Gao…
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2022 4:11
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Acta Epileptologica 2022 4:14

  2. There is no single way to improve epilepsy care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). An epilepsy management aid application (app) has been described, which enables a non-physician health worker (NPHW) ...

    Authors: Victor Patterson, Awais Bashir Larik, Mohamed Zaman Soomro and Steve Coates
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2022 4:12
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  3. Epilepsy is the most common neurological disease in the world. The objective of the study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of driver’s license applicants and instructors in driving schools...

    Authors: Dabilgou Alfred Anselme, Dravé Alassane, Kyelem Julie Marie Adeline, Eklou Lorrainda Emérance, Napon Christian, Millogo Athanase, Karfo Kapouni and Kaboré Jean
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2022 4:3
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  4. Stroke is the most frequent cause of secondary epilepsy in the elderly. The incidence of cerebral stroke is increasing with the extension of life expectancy, and the prevalence of post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) is...

    Authors: Jiayu Chen, Haijiao Ye, Jie Zhang, Aihong Li and Yaohui Ni
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2022 4:2
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  8. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rare clinical disease that refers to the subcortical vasogenic edema involving bilateral parieto-occipital regions, with a usually reversible syndrome w...

    Authors: Lu Lu, Weixi Xiong, Yingying Zhang, Yingfeng Xiao and Dong Zhou
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:30
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  9. High-frequency oscillations (HFOs) in the electroencephalography (EEG) have been extensively investigated as a potential biomarker of epileptogenic zones. The understanding of the role of HFOs in epilepsy has ...

    Authors: Yueqian Sun, Guoping Ren, Jiechuan Ren and Qun Wang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:29
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  11. Epilepsy is a chronic, universal disorder with various etiologies and prognoses. It is still laden with myths in the majority of the Moroccan population. Despite the existence of well-established medicinal tre...

    Authors: Abdelaati El Khiat, Najib Kissani, Abdellatif Abbaoui, Mohamed Chraa, Mohamed Loukid, Halima Gamrani and Mohamed Kamal Hilali
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:27
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  14. Hypertension is one of the most common comorbid conditions of epilepsy. Hypertension and epilepsy may be related to each other. Qigong Bigu practice induces a similar effect as fasting in the first week. As ke...

    Authors: Bin Hong, Runqi Luo, Dezhi Cao, Man Zhang, Kewei Fang, Jianhong Guo and Jianxiang Liao
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:25
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  15. Epilepsy is a risk factor for the development of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) and comorbid epilepsy is recognized as a comorbidity in about 10–30% of patients with PNES. The combination of epilept...

    Authors: Andreas Liampas, Sofia Markoula, Panagiotis Zis and Markus Reuber
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:23
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  17. The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet, in which fat is used as the primary energy source through the production of ketone bodies (KBs) in place of glucose. The KD was formally introduced...

    Authors: Hye Eun Kwon and Heung Dong Kim
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:21
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  18. RHOBTB2 gene is associated with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy-64(DEE-64), which is characterized by epilepsy, developmental delay, microcephaly, unspecific facial dysmorphism, and paroxysmal movement...

    Authors: Xueyang Niu, Yan Sun, Ying Yang, Miaomiao Cheng, Quanzhen Tan, Jie Zhang and Yuehua Zhang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:20
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  19. Epileptic seizure is a process of energy accumulation, bursting, and depletion accompanied by the production, spread, and termination of epileptic discharges. The energy required for a seizure is mainly provid...

    Authors: Guohui Jiang, Shenglin Wang, Mingyue Chen, Xiaomi Ding, Weiwei He, Li Wang, Shunxian Wang, Juming Yu and Xiaoming Wang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:19
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  21. Seizure control during pregnancy and obstetric outcomes are of important concerns for women with epilepsy (WWE) and their families. Advanced maternal age (≥35 years) shows a growing trend in the society with c...

    Authors: Hui Gao, Nanya Hao, Shanrui Liu and Dong Zhou
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:17
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  22. Despite the increasing number of anti-seizure medications becoming available, the proportion of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy remains unchanged. Dietary therapy for epilepsy is well-established practic...

    Authors: Neha Kaul, John-Paul Nicolo, Terence J. O’Brien and Patrick Kwan
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:16
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  25. Epilepsy is a common neurological disease caused by synchronous firing of hyperexcitable neurons. Currently, anti-epileptic drugs remain the main choice to control seizure, but 30% of patients are resistant to...

    Authors: Sijie Dai, Yang Zheng, Yi Wang and Zhong Chen
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:13
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  30. The alien hand phenomenon (AHP) is a rare disorder of involuntary limb movement together with a loss of sense of limb ownership. AHP occurs as a consequence of frontal, callosal, or posterior cerebral lesions....

    Authors: Weiwei Wang, Yang Liu, Hao Yu, Qingzhu Liu, Shuang Wang, Xiaoyan Liu, Lixin Cai and Xun Wu
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:8
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  32. Picornaviridae are a family of small positive-strand RNA viruses, and transmitted via the respiratory or fecal-oral route. The neurotropic picornaviruses can induce acute or late recurrent seizures following cent...

    Authors: Runxuan Zhang, Jie Mu, Jing Chi, Weijia Jiang and Xiaosa Chi
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:6
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  33. Emerging evidence has implied that the GABRG2 gene play a role in the mechanism of febrile seizure (FS), however, the relationship between GABRG2 rs211037 polymorphism and the risk of FS remains controversial. Th...

    Authors: Xiaohui Yang, Jing Chi, Xiaomeng Wang, Hongyun Wei, Xueping Zheng, Yi Hu, Song Hu, Yongjun Mao and Xiaosa Chi
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:5
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  34. Leucine-rich glioma-inactivated protein 1 (LGI1) antibody-mediated encephalitis is a rare subtype of autoimmune encephalopathy, which is associated with autoimmunity against the neuronal plasma membrane protei...

    Authors: Junxia Luo, Jianguo Shi, Yehong Chen, Wandong Hu, Yujie Guo, Guangshun Hou and Zaifen Gao
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:4
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:12

  36. Cognitive impairment is one of the common comorbidities in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Previous studies have found significant decay of hip...

    Authors: Xiaoqing Luo, Xiaoli Yu, Jufang Liang, Ruidi Sun, Cheng Li and Jun Jiang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:2
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  38. To analyze the clinical features of brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE) and explore the factors influencing the identification of epilepsy-associated tumor (EAT), in order to advance the clinical understanding...

    Authors: Xianwen Zhang, Liaoyuan Zheng, Jingfeng Duan, Zongping Li and Yufeng Tang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:25
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  39. Epilepsy is a common neurological disease that not only causes difficulties in the work and life activities of patients, but also brings complex social problems. Cerebrovascular disease is currently the main c...

    Authors: Shangnan Zou and Yangmei Chen
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  40. The mechanism of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy remains poorly understood. Seizure induced cardiac arrhythmia, central and obstructive apneas have been proposed as possible causes of death. Here we report...

    Authors: Raisa C. Martinez, Naoum P. Issa, Shasha Wu, Xi Liu, Sandra Rose and James X. Tao
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:23
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  42. Insulo-opercular seizures are highly heterogeneous in seizure semiology and electrical features. Bilateral asymmetric limb posturing, as a classical pattern of supplementary sensorimotor area (SMA) seizure, al...

    Authors: Xiangshu Hu, Kaihui Li, Xiao Wang, Ping Yang, Qinghua Tan, Danfang Li, Xiaobo Wang, Fang Zeng, Yang Jin, Lingxia Fei, Hua Li, Junxi Chen and Qiang Guo
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:21
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  43. To investigate the effect of long-term febrile convulsions on gene expression in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS) and explore the molecular mechanism of MTLE-HS.

    Authors: Yinchao Li, Chengzhe Wang, Peiling Wang, Xi Li and Liemin Zhou
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:20
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  44. The high prevalence and spread of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) make them an important cause of viral encephalitis in humans. Most epidemic viral encephalitides have an etiology associated with arbovir...

    Authors: Mingrui Zheng, Shichuo Li, R. Edward Hogan and Meihua Yang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:17
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:22

  45. Compared to the healthy people, people with comorbid medical conditions are more vulnerable in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, including the people with epilepsy. Besides a con...

    Authors: Zhenxu Xiao, Ding Ding, Shichuo Li and Zhen Hong
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:19
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  46. Seizures or epilepsy is one of the common serious complications in patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or diagnosed with immune deficiency syndrome, with higher incidence and pr...

    Authors: Changhao Yu, Dong Zhou, Weijia Jiang and Jie Mu
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:18
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  47. Infantile spasms (IS) are the most common childhood epileptic encephalopathy. Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) and gray matter heterotopias (GH) are common structural causes of IS. The recommended first-line tre...

    Authors: Haiyan Yang, Zhiquan Yang, Jing Peng, Yehong Huang, Zhuanyi Yang, Fei Yin and Liwen Wu
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:16
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:18

  48. Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that has an extensive impact on a patient’s life. Accumulating evidence has suggested that inflammation participates in the progression of spontaneous and recurrent ...

    Authors: Fanwei Meng and Lifen Yao
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:15
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  49. Progressive myoclonic epilepsy (PME) is a group of neurodegenerative diseases with genetic heterogeneity and phenotypic similarities, and many cases remain unknown of the genetic causes. This study is aim to s...

    Authors: Jing Zhang, Ying Yang, Xueyang Niu, Jiaoyang Chen, Wei Sun, Changhong Ding, Lifang Dai, Liping Zhang, Qi Zeng, Yi Chen, Xiaojuan Tian, Xiaoling Yang, Taoyun Ji, Zhixian Yang, Yanling Yang, Yuwu Jiang…
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:14
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  50. Continuous electroencephalogram (cEEG) has become an indispensable technique in the management of critically ill patients for early detection and treatment of non-convulsive seizures (NCS) and non-convulsive s...

    Authors: James X. Tao, Xiaoxiao Qin and Qun Wang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:13
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