Convulsive ergotism: epidemics of the serotonin syndrome?Mervyn J Eadie
Department of Medicine, University of Queensland, and the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Lancet Neurol 2:429-34. 2003
..The serotonin syndrome may, therefore, have been a public-health problem long before it was recognised as a complication of modern psychopharmacology...
Samuel Wilks (1824-1911): neurologist and generalist of the Mid-Victorian EraMervyn J Eadie
Department of Medicine, Central Clinical School, University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital, Herston, Brisbane, Australia
J Med Biogr 16:215-20. 2008
..He provided possibly the first account of alcoholic peripheral neuritis and published an early account of probable myasthenia gravis...
- William Gowers: the never completed third edition of the 'Bible of Neurology'
Mervyn J Eadie
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4027, Australia
Brain 135:3178-88. 2012
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- The prescribing of antiepileptic drugs for pregnant Australian women
Frank J E Vajda
Department of Medicine and Neurosciences, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 52:49-53. 2012
..It is not clear how widely it is appreciated in Australia that certain antiepileptic drugs, particularly valproate, are teratogenic...
- William Gowers' interpretation of epileptogenic mechanisms: 1880-1906
Mervyn J Eadie
Central Clinical School, University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia
Epilepsia 52:1045-51. 2011
..He settled on the synaptic gap as its likely site. However, the inhibition mechanism that he proposed, namely, retraction of dendrites, was rather extraordinary in the light of subsequent knowledge...
- Experimental epileptology before 1900
Mervyn J Eadie
Central Clinical School, University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital, Herston, Brisbane, Australia
Epilepsia 50:377-386. 2009
..Nevertheless, the pre-1900 investigations not only laid the foundations for the 20th Century expansion of experimental studies on epileptogenesis but also advanced the understanding of epileptic seizure production...
- Antiepileptic drugs in Australia: 2002-2007
Samantha A Hollingworth
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 19:82-9. 2010
..We examined the trends in the prescribing of subsidised AEDs in the Australian population from 2002 to 2007...
- Cortical epileptogenesis--Hughlings Jackson and his predecessors
Mervyn J Eadie
Department of Medicine Royal Brisbane Hospital, Central Clinical School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Epilepsia 48:2010-5. 2007
..To trace the concept that the cerebral cortex is the site of epileptogenesis before Hughlings Jackson published the idea in 1870 in the paper "A study of convulsions" which marks the beginning of modern epileptology...
- Victor Horsley's contribution to Jacksonian epileptology
Mervyn J Eadie
Department of Medicine, University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Epilepsia 46:1836-40. 2005
..CONCLUSIONS: On the basis of well-designed experiments, Horsley made a major contribution to the understanding of epileptic seizure propagation mechanisms...
- The epileptology of Théodore Herpin (1799-1865)
Mervyn J Eadie
Department of Medicine, University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Epilepsia 43:1256-61. 2002
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