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23 Previous studies have shown that CE is correlated with empathy in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy. 24

The relationship between dispositional empathy and prefrontal cortical functioning in patients with frontal lobe epilepsy

Patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy, acute head trauma, febrile seizures, and acute infarct/haemorrhage were excluded.

Spectrum of abnormalities detected on MRI in 250 cases of focal epilepsy in a tertiary care hospital

Psychopathology in pediatric complex partial and primary generalized epilepsy. Dev Med Child Neurol 1998; 40:805-811.

Epilepsy, psychogenic seizure, trauma in the developmental process/Epilepsinin gelisimsel surecte travma ve psikojenik nobet ile iliskisi

The study was able to compare subjects with partial epilepsy with those with generalized epilepsy, however.

Children with epilepsy show bone deficits

In a well-controlled clinical trial of Keppra[R] as add-on treatment in 164 patients (ages 4-65) with refractory idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), nearly a quarter (24.1 percent) achieved complete seizure freedom from all seizure types over the 20-week evaluation period, compared with only 8.3 percent of those who received a placebo in addition to their usual treatment (p=0.009).

New treatment option for patients with epilepsy

Of the group, 10 had both a clinical and an EEG-aided diagnosis of MAE, 2 had cryptogenic localized epilepsy, and 16 had symptomatic generalized epilepsy (including Lennox-Gastaut syndrome periodic spasms, diffuse encephalopathy with multifocal seizures, severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy, and generalized epilepsy not otherwise specified).

Myoclonic-astatic epilepsy responsive to ketogenic diet

Evidence for the efficacy of the newer antiepileptic agents in patients with other newly diagnosed, generalized epilepsy syndromes was judged unpersuasive.

Epilepsy guidelines focus on newer agents: off-label use provides equal efficacy and fewer side effects, compared with older antiepileptics

In June 2015, marketing authorization was granted for Fycompa as an adjunctive treatment for primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures in adult and adolescent patients from 12 years of age with idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

Eisai: Antiepileptic Drug Fycompa Regularly Available Again in Germany from December

Photosensitivity is usually seen in idiopathic generalized epilepsy. In the present study, of the patients who had a photic stimulation, only 2 demonstrated a diagnostic response (Table-6), the low yield is partly because of fewer number of primary generalized epilepsies who underwent EEGs in the second decade.

Study of interictal E.E.G in epilepsy

We read with interest the article by Ozemir and her colleagues' on volumetric analysis of the thalamus in idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) (1).

Relations between absence seizures and the thalamus/Absans nobetleri ve talamus arasindaki Iliskiler

KEY WORDS: Adult onset epilepsy, Idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

Adult onset idiopathic generalized epilepsy: A hospital-based study

Of the group, 10 had both a clinical and an EEG-aided diagnosis of MAE, 2 had cryptogenic localized epilepsy, and 16 had symptomatic generalized epilepsy (including LennoxGastaut syndrome periodic spasms, diffuse encephalopathy with multifocal seizures, severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy, and generalized epilepsy not otherwise specified).

Myoclonic-astatic epilepsy of Doose responded well to ketogenic diet