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| Frank G GilliamSummaryAffiliation: Geisinger Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Identifying epilepsy surgery candidates in the outpatient clinicFrank G Gilliam
Geisinger Epilepsy Program, Department of Neurology, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA
Epilepsy Behav 20:156-9. 2011..Optimal use of MRI and video/EEG monitoring should allow cost-effective screening of persons with recurrent seizures prior to more detailed presurgical evaluation when indicated...
Response to first antiepileptic drug trial predicts health outcome in epilepsyPiero Perucca
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Epilepsia 52:2209-15. 2011..Failure to respond to the initial antiepileptic drug (AED) is a predictor of increased risk of pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Whether response to the first AED also predicts adverse health outcomes is unknown...
Preference-based quality-of-life measures for neocortical epilepsy surgeryRobert C Knowlton
Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 0001, USA
Epilepsia 52:1018-20. 2011..Seizure freedom achieved with polytherapy medical management may be less desirable than that achieved with surgery and monotherapy...
Adverse antiepileptic drug effects: toward a clinically and neurobiologically relevant taxonomyPiero Perucca
Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Neurology 72:1223-9. 2009..This study aimed to define specific patterns of AE occurrence and determine their clinical relevance based on their association with subjective health status...
Epilepsy surgery for pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy: a decision analysisHyunmi Choi
Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
JAMA 300:2497-505. 2008....
Musicogenic seizures can arise from multiple temporal lobe foci: intracranial EEG analyses of three patientsTania F Tayah
Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-8552, USA
Epilepsia 47:1402-6. 2006..Patients with medically intractable musicogenic epilepsy and with unilateral ictal onset zones may be considered candidates for resective epilepsy surgery...
Epilepsy treatment as a predeterminant of psychosocial ill healthPiero Perucca
Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Epilepsy Behav 15:S46-50. 2009..Existing deficiencies in the available published research present challenges and opportunities to perform further investigations to define and improve best clinical practices in epilepsy care...
