Nathanel Zelnik

..4% of the children without ADHD. With a low specificity of 21.6%, the authors feel that the Test of Variables of Attention is not reliable enough to serve as a screening diagnostic tool for ADHD...

..The mode of delivery, head circumference, adjusted birth weight, gender and ethnic group, consanguineous marriage and prematurity were not found to be risk factors for the occurrence of epilepsy in these children...

..In conclusion, these new-generation antiepileptic drugs probably do not cause carnitine deficiency. In contrast, valproate may induce carnitine deficiency, but most cases are asymptomatic...

..The aim of the present study is to look for a broader spectrum of neurologic disorders in CD patients, most of them children or young adults...

..Sequencing of exon 3 of the CLN8 gene revealed a novel C>G missense mutation at a conserved amino acid glutamine 256 to glutamic acid. Our findings further raise the possibility of the existence of a Mediterranean CLN8 variant...

..The reason for this clinical heterogeneity is unclear, although the presence of additional unknown mutated regulatory genes or epigenetic factors may explain it...

..Therefore, clinicians should be aware of possible unique and unusual presentations of occipital lobe epilepsy at various ages...

..Children with more epileptiform features in their electroencephalograms were also more subject to signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Larger scale studies are required to validate our findings...

..To describe the clinical spectrum and to evaluate the efficacy of different therapeutic agents in children with electrical status epilepticus in sleep (ESES)...

..Eighteen percent of the patients had more than 20 seizures each, whereas 24% had 1 to 3 seizures each. The only predictor for a disease course with multiple seizures was an onset prior to 3 years of age...

..No significant differences between these two medications were found in the treatment of benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes in this small patient sample...

..The ability to identify AT carriers routinely provides a unique opportunity for prenatal diagnosis, genetic counseling as well as marriage guidance in the Druze community...

..DNA analysis revealed 1.5-Mb deletion at 17p11.2 in both father and child. To the best of our knowledge, this patient is one of the youngest ever found with this disease...

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..05). Relative short stature appears common in Tourette syndrome, and its presence with other features may implicate a neurotransmitter system that interacts with neuroendocrine pathways, controlling height...

..The severity of pathologic findings on muscle biopsy is variable and may correlate with specific mutations and thymidine kinase 2 protein residual activity...

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