Research Topics
| Frederick AndermannSummaryAffiliation: McGill University Country: Canada Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
The role of periventricular nodular heterotopia in epileptogenesisYahya Aghakhani
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, , Canada
Brain 128:641-51. 2005..Invasive recording is required in patients with PNH; it improves localization and is the key to better outcome...- History of Joubert syndrome and a 30-year follow-up of the original probandF Andermann
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC
J Child Neurol 14:565-9. 1999..Ataxia was still present but not severe. Poor judgment and borderline intelligence rounded out the clinical picture. Modern imaging has clarified, in part, the anatomic basis of this syndrome... - Migraine and the benign partial epilepsies of childhood: evidence for an associationF Andermann
Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Canada
Epileptic Disord 2:S37-9. 2000..Hopefully, this will stimulate further research into this intriguing association of two conditions which though they have different pathophysiology frequently coexist... - Long-term efficacy and safety of piracetam in the treatment of progressive myoclonus epilepsyM Fedi
FRCP C, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 3801 University St, Room 127, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4
Arch Neurol 58:781-6. 2001..Piracetam has been proven to be effective and well tolerated in the treatment of myoclonus in short-term studies... - Is complete seizure control imperative?Frederick Andermann
McGill University, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, 3801 University Street, Montreal, PQ, H3A 2B4, Canada
Prog Brain Res 135:479-85. 2002..Weighing the benefits of complete control versus the side effects and risks of medication or surgery is crucial. There are obvious benefits to complete control; it is imperative if these benefits are greater than the cost... - Long-term seizure outcome after corpus callosotomy: a retrospective analysis of 95 patientsTaner Tanriverdi
Department of Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Neurosurg 110:332-42. 2009..The authors report long-term follow-up seizure outcome in patients who underwent corpus callosotomy during the period 1981-2001 at the Montreal Neurological Institute... - Familial temporal lobe epilepsy as a presenting feature of choreoacanthocytosisAbdullah Al-Asmi
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsia 46:1256-63. 2005..Mutations in VPS13A or GNA14 or both may be associated with clinical features of temporal lobe epilepsy... - Cognitive functioning in bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (BPP): clinical and radiological correlationsAn C Jansen
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsy Behav 6:393-404. 2005..Frontal lobe function and memory abilities were relatively well preserved, suggesting that the observed cognitive profiles were related, at least in part, to specific areas of cortical dysfunction and not only to global dysfunction... - Temporal and extratemporal BOLD responses to temporal lobe interictal spikesEliane Kobayashi
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4
Epilepsia 47:343-54. 2006..Our objective was to investigate blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) responses to temporal lobe (TL) spikes by using EEG-fMRI recording... - Pathways of seizure propagation from the temporal to the occipital lobeJulia Jacobs
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, Canada
Epileptic Disord 10:266-70. 2008..The propagation may have predictive value for their surgical outcome. The underlying anatomical structure might be the inferior longitudinal fasciculus... - Entorhinal cortex MRI assessment in temporal, extratemporal, and idiopathic generalized epilepsyNeda Bernasconi
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsia 44:1070-4. 2003..The purpose of this study was to examine the specificity of EC atrophy in epilepsy... - Unusually mild tuberous sclerosis phenotype is associated with TSC2 R905Q mutationAn C Jansen
Neurogenetics Unit, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Neurol 60:528-39. 2006..These findings have implications for the large number of patients with limited clinical features of TSC and for genetic counseling in these families... - Post-ictal rage and aggression: a video-EEG studyAlexei E Yankovsky
Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epileptic Disord 7:143-7. 2005..Developmental abnormalities with periventricular, nodular heterotopia in the region of the trigones and inferomesial temporal areas are considered to be causally related to his retardation and epilepsy. [Published with video sequences]... - Long-term seizure outcome after mesial temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: corticalamygdalohippocampectomy versus selective amygdalohippocampectomyTaner Tanriverdi
Department of Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Neurosurg 108:517-24. 2008.... - Genetic focal epilepsies: state of the art and paths to the futureFrederick Andermann
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Epilepsia 46:61-7. 2005..This will allow further linkage studies, candidate gene screening, and identification of new genes, which will hopefully result in genetically based prevention and treatment... - Palliative temporal resection for the treatment of intractable bioccipital epilepsyDemet Kinay
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Canada
Epileptic Disord 6:97-105. 2004..Published with videosequences)... - Transient edematous lesions of the splenium in epileptic patientsGiovanna Carrara
Department of Radiology, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
Can J Neurol Sci 32:352-5. 2005..In our patients, either the sudden AED withdrawal or the seizures activity may be presumed to be the cause, though an individual susceptibility must also be considered... - Post-ictal forceful yawning in a patient with nondominant hemisphere epilepsyAlexei E Yankovsky
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epileptic Disord 8:65-9. 2006..Yawning was irresistible, forceful and often repetitive. We reviewed the few similar epileptic cases described in the literature and discussed the possible mechanisms. [Published with video sequences]... - Automated detection of focal cortical dysplasia lesions using computational models of their MRI characteristics and texture analysisSamson B Antel
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
Neuroimage 19:1748-59. 2003..This computer-based, automated method may be useful in the presurgical evaluation of patients with severe epilepsy related to FCD... - Refractory and lethal status epilepticus in a patient with ring chromosome 20 syndromeJulia Jacobs
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Quebec, Canada
Epileptic Disord 10:254-9. 2008..Because of the variability of the clinical presentation, some patients with r(20) undergo invasive investigations before being diagnosed... - Tonic status epilepticus in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsyEliane Kobayashi
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epileptic Disord 7:327-31. 2005..Recognition of the significance of TSE in such patients has important therapeutic and prognostic implications. [Published with video sequences]... - Characteristics of headache associated with intractable partial epilepsyAlexei E Yankovsky
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsia 46:1241-5. 2005..This association is not recognized by the current International Headache Society (IHS) classification. The presence of HA and migraine is not related to the underlying epileptogenic pathology except in patients with AVMs... - Small focal cortical dysplasia lesions are located at the bottom of a deep sulcusPierre Besson
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Brain Imaging Center, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Brain 131:3246-55. 2008.... - The effective and ethical use of voluntary induction of psychogenic drop attacks in a patient with idiopathic generalized epilepsyAsher Wilner
McGill University Health Centre, Consultation Liaison Service, Department of Psychiatry, Allan Memorial Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsy Behav 17:569-70. 2010..In addition, we propose a seizure-provoking technique that may be used both effectively and ethically in the diagnosis of psychogenic drop attacks as well as nonepileptic seizures... - Cortical triggers in generalized reflex seizures and epilepsiesEdoardo Ferlazzo
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Epilepsy Clinic, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Brain 128:700-10. 2005.... - Leucoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter may cause progressive myoclonus epilepsyAn C Jansen
Neurogenetics Unit, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Montreal, Canada
Epilepsia 49:910-3. 2008..All major causes of progressive myoclonus epilepsy (PME) were excluded. Brain MRI showed extensive white matter involvement. Mutation analysis of the EIF2B5 gene revealed a homozygous c.338G>A (p.Arg113His) mutation... - Long-term outcome after surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy in childrenSandeep Mittal
Department of Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Neurosurg 103:401-12. 2005..Unfavorable outcomes are most likely to occur when epileptiform discharges are bitemporal or multifocal in distribution and in cases involving incomplete resection of mesiotemporal structures... - The effects of adjunctive topiramate on cognitive function in patients with epilepsySuzee Lee
McGill University, Montreal Neurological Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsia 44:339-47. 2003..As the two studies used an opposite order of testing on versus off TPM, our results clearly show a performance decrement while patients are taking TPM, without respect to which condition is tested first... - Patients with temporoparietal ictal symptoms and inferomesial EEG do not benefit from anterior temporal resectionYahya Aghakhani
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsia 45:230-6. 2004..Anteromesial temporal resection is ineffective in patients with posterior temporoparietal clinical ictal features... - Stressors at the onset of adult epilepsy: implications for practiceSheila Koutsogiannopoulos
McGill University Health Centre, Montreal Neurological Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epileptic Disord 11:42-7. 2009..Early awareness of high risk factors for seizures may lead to strategies of seizure self control by avoiding situations associated with high risks, improving lives disrupted by the uncertainty of epilepsy... - Action myoclonus-renal failure syndrome: characterization of a unique cerebro-renal disorderAmanpreet Badhwar
Neurogenetics Unit, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Brain 127:2173-82. 2004.... - Compulsory generic switching of antiepileptic drugs: high switchback rates to branded compounds compared with other drug classesFrederick Andermann
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsia 48:464-9. 2007.... - Striking intrafamilial phenotypic variability and spastic paraplegia in the presence of similar homozygous expansions of the FRDA1 geneAmanpreet Badhwar
Neurogenetics Unit, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mov Disord 19:1424-31. 2004..Factors such as somatic mosaicism, repeat interruptions, modifying mutations and environmental factors must also be considered... - The idiopathic generalized epilepsies across lifeFrederick Andermann
Epilepsy Service, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Room 127, 3801 University Street, Montreal, PQ H3A 2B4, Canada
Suppl Clin Neurophysiol 57:408-14. 2004 - Cortical resection with electrocorticography for intractable porencephaly-related partial epilepsyKoji Iida
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Epilepsia 46:76-83. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Cortical resection guided by ECoG allows preservation of motor function and visual field and provides an effective surgical procedure for treatment of intractable epilepsy secondary to porencephaly... - Factors predictive of suboptimal seizure control following selective amygdalohippocampectomyAviva Abosch
Department of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Neurosurg 97:1142-51. 2002..The goal of this study was to determine factors predictive of poor postoperative seizure control (Engel Class III or IV) following SelAH... - Psychiatric aspects of patients with hypothalamic hamartoma and epilepsyGhislaine Savard
Montreal Neurological Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Epileptic Disord 5:229-34. 2003..The anxious and social features of the aggression suggest that psychiatric interventions, which have been neglected as the emphasis has been on seizure control, are worthwhile in the overall management of this difficult case... - Chronic cluster-like headache secondary to an epidermoid clival lesionRami Massie
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Canada
Can J Neurol Sci 33:421-2. 2006 - fMRI activation in continuous and spike-triggered EEG-fMRI studies of epileptic spikesAbdulla Al-Asmi
Montreal Neurological Institute and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, , , Canada
Epilepsia 44:1328-39. 2003..Activation also is found in patients with no visible MRI lesion. Intracerebral recordings largely confirm that these activation regions represent epileptogenic areas. It is still unclear why many patients show no activation... - Myoclonic status epilepticus: video presentationAman Badhwar
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mov Disord 17:409-11. 2002..The diagnosis of this clinical pattern is based mainly on clinical description. A home video captured an attack... - Temporal pole and mesiotemporal epilepsy: introductory remarksFrederick Andermann
Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 rue Universit, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2BA, Canada
Epileptic Disord 4:S7-8. 2002 - MRI volumetry of the thalamus in temporal, extratemporal, and idiopathic generalized epilepsyJun Natsume
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Quebec, Canada
Neurology 60:1296-300. 2003..In TLE, thalamic atrophy is correlated with duration of disease. Patients with a history of prolonged febrile seizures had smaller thalamic volumes ipsilateral to the seizure focus than those without... - Early onset Rasmussen's syndrome: a malignant, often bilateral form of the disorderFrederick Andermann
Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, 3801 University Street, Room 127, Montreal, QUE H3A 2B4, Canada
Epilepsy Res 70:S259-62. 2006..Isolated patients treated with immune modulating agents may also have bilateral disease but the significance of the treatment accounting for the contralateral spread requires further observations... - alpha-[11C]-Methyl-L-tryptophan PET identifies the epileptogenic tuber and correlates with interictal spike frequencyMarco Fedi
Department of Neurology, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Que, Montreal, Canada
Epilepsy Res 52:203-13. 2003..6; P<0.05). alpha-MTrp PET is a promising diagnostic tool in the localization of the epileptogenic area in patients with TSC... - Mechanisms, genetics, and pathogenesis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsyBenjamin Zifkin
Epilepsy Clinic, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Curr Opin Neurol 18:147-53. 2005..Major genes account for relatively few cases, and most cases appear to involve multifactorial or complex inheritance... - Ulcerative colitis, status epilepticus and intractable temporal seizuresGalip Akhan
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
Epileptic Disord 4:135-7. 2002..Encephalitis or vasculitis were suspected in all cases, but without evidence; metabolic factors may have been present. Status epilepticus in UC may lead to catastrophic sequelae... - Subcortical band heterotopia (SBH) in males: clinical, imaging and genetic findings in comparison with femalesMaria Daniela D'Agostino
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Quebec, Canada
Brain 125:2507-22. 2002..This suggests other genetic mechanisms such as mutations in the non-coding regions of the DCX or LIS1 genes, gonadal or somatic mosaicism, and finally mutations of other genes... - Alpha-[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan uptake in patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia and epilepsyJun Natsume
Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Epilepsia 49:826-31. 2008..Electrophysiological evidence suggests the involvement of the neocortex in periventricular nodular heterotopia (PVNH)... - The spectrum of SCN1A-related infantile epileptic encephalopathiesLouise A Harkin
Department of Genetic Medicine, Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia
Brain 130:843-52. 2007..Knowledge of an expanded spectrum of epileptic encephalopathies associated with SCN1A mutations allows earlier diagnostic confirmation for children with these devastating disorders... - Posterior quadrantic epilepsy surgery: technical variants, surgical anatomy, and case seriesRoy Thomas Daniel
Department of Neurosurgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632004, Tamil Nadu, India
Epilepsia 48:1429-37. 2007..We also describe the microsurgical technique of the different surgical variants used, along with their functional neuroanatomy... - Efficacy of and morbidity associated with stereoelectroencephalography using computerized tomography--or magnetic resonance imaging-guided electrode implantationAntonio Nogueira de Almeida
Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
J Neurosurg 104:483-7. 2006..The purpose of this paper was to define the general efficacy of and morbidity associated with stereoelectroencephalography using modem methods of imaging and to particularize the risks related to specific lobes of the brain... - Bilateral Rasmussen encephalitis: postmortem documentation in a five-year-oldSharon M Tobias
Pathology Department, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756-0001, USA
Epilepsia 44:127-30. 2003..Autopsy findings confirmed the diagnosis of Rasmussen encephalitis with bilateral involvement... - New-onset seizures after liver transplantation: clinical implications and prognosis in survivorsEun Jung Choi
Department of Neurology, University of Korea College of Medicine, Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Eur Neurol 52:230-6. 2004..The prognosis of seizures in survivors is excellent, and long-term antiepileptic drugs are not required in most cases... - Unilateral hippocampal sclerosis with contralateral temporal scalp ictal onsetScott Mintzer
Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
Epilepsia 45:792-802. 2004..To investigate the clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes in patients with unilateral hippocampal sclerosis whose scalp ictal EEG recordings localize to the opposite temporal lobe... - Biparental inheritance in idiopathic generalized epilepsyAn C Jansen
Epilepsia 45:1294-5. 2004 - Hypothalamic hamartoma and epilepsy: the pathway of discoveryFrederick Andermann
Epileptic Disord 5:173-5. 2003 - Reflex seizures in patients with malformations of cortical development and refractory epilepsyAndre Palmini
Porto Alegre Epilepsy Surgery Program, Hospital Sao Lucas, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Epilepsia 46:1224-34. 2005..We sought to characterize reflex seizures in patients with MCDs and refractory epilepsy... - Pseudotemporal vs neocortical temporal epilepsy: things aren't always where they seem to beFrederick Andermann
Neurology 61:732-3. 2003 - Outcome of surgical treatment in familial mesial temporal lobe epilepsyEliane Kobayashi
Department of Neurology, University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Epilepsia 44:1080-4. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Refractory FMTLE patients have good surgical outcome when unilateral or clearly asymmetric HA is identified. Preoperative investigation should be the same as that in patients with sporadic refractory MTLE... - Hypothalamic hamartoma and seizures: a treatable epileptic encephalopathySamuel F Berkovic
Epilepsy Research Institute and Department of Neurology, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg Melbourne, Australia
Epilepsia 44:969-73. 2003..The previously dismal outlook for children with severe seizures associated with this lesion has now dramatically changed. These insights may have implications for other epileptic encephalopathies of childhood... - Familial partial epilepsy with variable foci: clinical features and linkage to chromosome 22q12Samuel F Berkovic
Epilepsy Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Victoria, Australia
Epilepsia 45:1054-60. 2004..A gene for FPEVF was mapped to chromosome 22q12 in two distantly related French-Canadian families... - Nonsyndromic mental retardation and cryptogenic epilepsy in women with doublecortin gene mutationsRenzo Guerrini
Division of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Ann Neurol 54:30-7. 2003..Missense DCX mutations may manifest as non-syndromic mental retardation with cryptogenic epilepsy in female subjects and SBH in boys. Mutation analysis in mothers of affected children is mandatory, even when brain MRI is normal... - Seizure outcome after resection of supratentorial cavernous malformations: a study of 168 patientsChristian R Baumann
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Epilepsia 48:559-63. 2007..The aim of our study was to examine seizure outcome in the largest published series of surgically treated patients with epilepsy due to a supratentorial CCM, and to define predictors for good surgical outcome... - Are epilepsy classifications based on epileptic syndromes and seizure types outdated?Jerome Engel
Epileptic Disord 8:159-60. 2006 - [Cortical dysplasia and epilepsy: where do we come from, where are we, and where are we going?]Frederick Andermann
, , Service d'Epilepsie,
Rev Med Suisse Romande 123:583-90. 2003 - Autism, macrocrania and epilepsy: how are they linked?Antonia Parmeggiani
Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit, Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Ugo Foscolo 7, 40123 Bologna, Italy
Brain Dev 24:296-9. 2002..AD with macrocrania and epilepsy is not a syndrome but may be a marker for a group of subjects with AD. A role for familial macrocrania needs further assessment... - Identification of a VPS13A founder mutation in French Canadian families with chorea-acanthocytosisCarol Dobson-Stone
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
Neurogenetics 6:151-8. 2005..The deletion breakpoint PCR described here will enable rapid identification of both homozygous and heterozygous carriers of EX70_EX73del... - Array-based gene discovery with three unrelated subjects shows SCARB2/LIMP-2 deficiency causes myoclonus epilepsy and glomerulosclerosisSamuel F Berkovic
Department of Medicine, Austin Health and Northern Health, Heidelberg, Victoria 3081, Australia
Am J Hum Genet 82:673-84. 2008..The heterogeneous pathology in the kidney and brain suggests that SCARB2/Limp2 has pleiotropic effects that may be relevant to understanding the pathogenesis of other forms of glomerulosclerosis or collapse and myoclonic epilepsies... - Antimyoclonic efficacy of piracetam in idiopathic generalized epilepsyYahya Agha Khani
Epilepsia 46:1145-6. 2005..She had a dramatic response to piracetam with sustained cessation of myoclonus and no side effects during 1.5 years' follow-up. Further trials of piracetam for control of myoclonus in patients with IGE are justified... - Sanfilippo syndrome type D: natural history and identification of 3 novel mutations in the GNS GeneAn C M Jansen
Department of Pediatric Neurology, UZ Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium
Arch Neurol 64:1629-34. 2007.... - Neurosyphilis presenting with status epilepticusCandan Gurses
Department of Neurology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Millet Caddesi Capa, 34390 Istanbul, Turkey
Epileptic Disord 9:51-6. 2007..Executive dysfunction was observed in follow-up neuropsychological tests in all patients. When investigating status epilepticus, neurosyphilis as a cause must not be forgotten... - Epileptogenesis due to peripheral injury as a cause of focal epilepsyAllison E Spiller
Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Epilepsia 46:1252-5. 2005..This suggests that epileptogenesis can occur in response to painful peripheral stimuli in some individuals... - Circalunar and ultralunar periodicities in women with partial seizuresMark Quigg
Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
Epilepsia 49:1081-5. 2008..In the present study, we determined seizure periodicity according to a "menstrual clock" provided by a common phase marker of the onset of menses...