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  1. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Surgical treatment for patients with adult-onset Rasmussen’s encephalitis (A-RE) is rarely reported. We investigated the clinical and surgical features of two patients with A-RE who underwent functional hemisp...

    Authors: Hong Xue, Cuiping Xu, Xiaoxia Zhou, Duanyu Ni, Xueyuan Wang and Tao Yu
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:11
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  12. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. 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

  18. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. Although antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are the most effective treatment for epilepsy, 30–40% of patients with epilepsy would develop drug-refractory epilepsy. An accurate, preliminary prediction of the efficacy o...

    Authors: Shijun Yang, Bin Wang and Xiong Han
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:1
    Content type: Review Published on:

  20. 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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  21. 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:

  22. 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
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  24. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. 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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  26. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:22

  27. 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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  28. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  29. 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

  30. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  31. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  32. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  35. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is an important tool for the diagnosis of herpes simplex virus encephalitis (HSE). However, the diagnosis of non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) in HSE is challenging without th...

    Authors: Wanhui Lin, Shenggen Chen, Hanbin Lin, Changyun Liu and Huapin Huang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:10
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  36. Epilepsy is a common disease with frequent occurrences. Many precipitating factors contribute to epileptic seizures, such as hyperventilation and alcohol consumption. An increasing number of studies have also ...

    Authors: Yi Guo, Yaowen Liu and Xuefeng Wang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  37. Studies in animal models of epilepsy and pre-surgical patients have unanimously found a strong correlation between high-frequency oscillations (HFOs, > 80 Hz) and the epileptogenic zone, suggesting that HFOs c...

    Authors: Yuping Wang, Dong Zhou, Xiaofeng Yang, Xin Xu, Liankun Ren, Tao Yu, Wenjing Zhou, Xiaoqiu Shao, Zhixian Yang, Shuang Wang, Dezhi Cao, Chunyan Liu, Shang Yeong Kwan and Jing Xiang
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:8
    Content type: Consensus Published on:

  38. Distinguishing non-epileptic events, especially psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), from epileptic seizures (ES) constitutes a diagnostic challenge. Misdiagnoses are frequent, especially when video-EEG ...

    Authors: Dènahin Hinnoutondji Toffa, Laurence Poirier and Dang Khoa Nguyen
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  41. To investigate the effect and safety of ketogenic diet (KD) for the treatment of paediatric patients with super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE) in febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES).

    Authors: Xinhua Wang, Xuan Gao, Guoping Lu, Zhongying Lu, Shuizhen Zhou, Yi Wang and Yuanfeng Zhou
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. The autosomal recessive form of primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a rare disorder characterized by microcephaly with variable degree of intellectual disability. WDR62 has been reported as the second causative gene o...

    Authors: Ping Zhou, Xin Ding, Qi Zeng, Huafang Zou, Jianxiang Liao and Dezhi Cao
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:3
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  43. DEPDC5 together with NPRL2 and NPRL3 forms the GATOR1 which plays an important role in the the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. Deregulation of mTOR signalling has been associated to various neu...

    Authors: Zihan Wei, Luojun Wang, Xiaozhi Qiao, Ying Zhang, Chao Liu and Yanchun Deng
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2020 2:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. 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
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2019 1:9
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Acta Epileptologica 2019 1:8

  46. 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
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2019 1:8
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Acta Epileptologica 2021 3:32

    The Correction to this article has been published in Acta Epileptologica 2019 1:9

  50. Voltage-gated sodium channels are the targets of many commonly used antiepileptic drugs. NaV1.6, 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
    Citation: Acta Epileptologica 2019 1:4
    Content type: Research Published on:
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