Jozsef Janszky

..To investigate the factors which influence the persistence of interictal epileptiform discharges (IED) after epilepsy surgery...

..PIVS, especially PNW, occurred more frequently in women, supporting the gender differences in epilepsy...

..The new and quantitative MRI techniques, such as volumetry, T2-relaxometry, MR-spectroscopy, and functional MRI play a growing role in the epilepsy diagnosis...

..Our results confirm that orgasmic aura could be considered as an ictal lateralising sign to the right hemisphere, however, it has no 100% lateralising value...

..AEO was found to be trimodal with a peak at ages 5.5, 15.3, and 26.7. In the adolescent AEO group, a family history of epilepsy occurred more frequently and the age at febrile convulsions was earlier than in the childhood group...

..Epilepsy duration is the most important predictor for long-term surgical outcome. Our results strongly suggest that surgery for TLE-HS should be performed as early as possible...

..To identify prognostic factors which predict the outcome 2 years after TLE surgery in those patients who were not seizure-free at the 6-month postoperative examination...

..To analyze systematically hyperorality associated with epileptic seizures and its relation to the localization of epileptic activity...

..To analyse the lateralising value of unilateral manual automatism (UMA), its relation to contralateral dystonia and the hand by which the UMA was performed...

..We wanted to investigate factors that are associated with frequency of interictal epileptiform discharges by investigating 303 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)...

..Another hypothesis is that consciousness can be disturbed much easier by the ictal activity in left temporal seizures: auras evolve more frequently to CPS due to the disturbance of consciousness...

..Our data suggest that the seizure spread is more extended or occurs more frequently in men than in women...

..01). Forty-seven percent of the patients had HFC. In patients with right HS, HFC occurred in 59.6%, whereas in patients with left HS, HFC was present in 37.5%, showing a highly significant lateralization difference...

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..A peculiar benefit of the ZNS is that parallel to its positive effect on motor impairment it also reduces severity of dyskinesias. ZNS may be effective in bipolar disorder, obesity, eating disorders, and migraine prophylaxis...

..e. interictal discharges and seizure spread, may influence speech reorganization. Our findings also suggest that not only structural elements but also functional factors have an effect on the language organization of the brain...

..The causal relationship between TLE, HS, and CFC is unclear. There is also contradictory data whether CFC-associated TLE is a distinct epilepsy syndrome and has different surgical outcome than other medial TLEs...

..To investigate factors determining the presence of bilateral interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) with unilateral hippocampal sclerosis (HS)...

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..This is the first report when automatisms with preserved consciousness occurred during a seizure originating and involving the speech-dominant hemisphere...

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..To examine the effects of age on different aspects of temporal lobe seizure semiology...

..Conclusively, we found that RLD is mainly related to the right hemisphere, and requires activation of the parieto-temporo-occipital junction and the visual system including cuneus, precuneus, and gyrus lingualis...

..We found altogether, 104 (71%) females and 42 (29%) males. This gender difference is highly significant (p < 0.00001). We conclude that absence status epilepticus over the age of 50 is predominantly a female disorder...

..002). CONCLUSIONS: Higher left-sided spike frequency in MTLE was associated with a left-right shift of speech representation, suggesting that chronic frequent interictal activity may induce a reorganization of speech lateralization...

..Bilateral pallidal deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established treatment option for primary generalized and segmental dystonia. In the present study we evaluated the results of our dystonia patients treated by DBS...

..To analyze the localizing and lateralizing value of ictal smile (IS) in childhood epilepsy...

..Five healthy controls were also investigated with the same settings...

..To investigate the lateralization value of ictal vocalizations in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)...

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..In conclusion, our data indicate that DBS may have different impacts on various electrophysiological parameters during the oddball paradigm...

..Intelligable speech during complex partial seizures appears in non-dominant seizures. Automatism with preserved consciousness refers to the seizures of non-dominant temporal lobe...

..Bilateral deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nuclei (STN) is a well-established and cost-effective treatment in advanced PD...

..two questions: (1) What clinical features differentiate patients with TLE who regularly had SGTCS from those who did not? (2) Is there an association of secondarily generalized seizures with preceding seizure elements and clinical data?..

..We analyzed the possibility of an opposite cause/effect relation: whether asymmetric hand usage (as a cause) can influence language lateralization (as a consequence)...

..To identify surgical prognostic factors for temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) due to amygdala lesions...

..To present evidence of changes in seizure semiology suggesting late contralateral epileptogenesis after incomplete surgery in a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy...

..To describe predictive clinical factors for the differentiation between childhood frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) and posterior cortex epilepsy (PCE)...

..Our aim was to assess (1) frequency, (2) gender effect, (3) lateralizing significance, (4) localizing value, and (5) prognostic significance in epilepsy surgery of IAS in patients with video-registered seizures...

..To describe clinical characteristics as well as localizing and lateralizing value of behavioral change (BC) at the onset of childhood seizures...

..Sudden death appears in 8-17% of epilepsy patients non-responding to antiepileptic therapy. Some studies suggest that the most common cause of death is seizure-related cardiac arrhythmia...

..We investigated whether hippocampal abnormalities are present in healthy adults>15 years after a simple FS...

..To systematically analyze the lateralizing and localizing value of ictal emotional expressions (EEs) in children and compare these results with those of earlier adult studies...

..Many frequent and reliable LSs were independent of age. LSs may help in the presurgical evaluation of infants and young children...

..4-0.5 V higher amplitude was required than in unipolar mode. However in some cases, the efficacy of bipolar stimulation was unable the reach that of unipolar stimulation within the examined amplitude range...

..To visualize by ictal, functional MRI, the initial haemodynamic change (i.e. putative seizure-onset zone) and subsequent seizure spread during an epileptic seizure...

..Parameters of brain water homeostasis were continuously monitored, using in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods. The results were compared with those obtained in a previous study by tissue desiccation...

..To our knowledge this is one of the very first studies, which tries to find an association between brain morphology and coffee consumption or caffeine intake in humans using MR imaging...

..Three consecutive pain attacks were detected during the imaging session and strong brainstem activation was found. It was concluded that the brainstem can be involved in the pain signal transmission in SUNCT syndrome...

..Incidental paradoxical antiepileptic effect of levetiracetam has been described. The aim of the present study was to identify the epilepsy patients at risk...

..Here we describe a 22-year-old woman treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the left internal globus pallidus for hemidystonia. At certain stimulation settings, DBS elicited reproducible episodes of DV...

..Because right hand tremor cannot simply reflect the mechanical overflow of the left side, the bilateral improvement caused by right Vim DBS is probably due to an active tremor reduction in this particular case...

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..To describe frequency and electroclinical characteristics as well as localizing and lateralizing value of childhood periictal genital automatisms (GAs)...

..We also discuss the advantage of the use of the (Access Therapy) patient controller. After reviewing the stimulation-related side-effects and their management, the contraindicated medical procedures are discussed...

..These data support the hypothesis that PFC might be responsible for HS, but other factors and individual sensitivity should play a role in this process...

..Testosterone may not only be beneficial on sexual functions, but can reduce also the seizure frequency. Independent of etiology, erectile dysfunctions can be successfully treated by sildenafil...

..This may be further evidence for a different body-weight regulation in the two sexes. The potential relationship between the volume of the right amygdala and the BMI in heavier individuals requires further studies with larger samples...

..In this study, frequency, characteristics and diagnostic relevance of SCSs recorded by scalp-EEG were analyzed in a large population of children with focal epilepsy...

..FMRI can also provide information about the mechanisms of different therapeutic approaches in Parkinson disorder including drug treatment and deep brain stimulation...

..In conclusion, we could not find any evidence for the lateralization value of peri-ictal water drinking in TLE...

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..We present here four patients with GPFA, who had neither LGS/LLGS syndrome, nor mental deterioration, two of them are seizure-free, two had infrequent seizures on medication...

..From theoretical considerations, it may be assumed that 1.0-Tesla MRI can be performed safely on DBS-implanted patients, provided that all other recommendations are adhered to...

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..To describe the frequency, localizing and lateralizing value of ictal pallor (IP) in children with focal epilepsy...

..High-field advantages are therefore best invested in higher spatial resolution...

..To assess distribution of temporal lobe spikes across different states of sleep and wakefulness in simultaneous scalp and foramen ovale (Fo) recordings...

..Surgery of cortical organization disturbances should be cautiously performed because these malformations may participate to some degree in brain functions...

..To perform functional MRI experiments at low magnetic field, and to set up routine protocol to help the planning of neurosurgical operations and the examination of epilepsy patients...

..0001). It is concluded that pathological sleep apnoea frequency remains stable after ischaemic stroke indicating a concomitant obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and sleep apnoea is a transitory symptom of haemorrhagic strokes...