While postictal headache is a common and disabling condition, its treatment is often overlooked. Flunarizine and sumatriptan can be good candidates to be used in future clinical trials of the treatment of postictal headache.
There are gender differences in certain epilepsy-related factors predicting health-related quality of life at 1 year in persons with newly-diagnosed epilepsy.
Veterans with PNES and veterans with epilepsy are both at significantly increased risk for suicide and SRB when compared to the general population.
Findings of the current investigation may indicate that inclusion of courses on epilepsy early in the medical curriculum might promote knowledge of medical students with regard to epilepsy.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Despite having control of their epilepsy in the majority, these children suffered from poor quality of life.
Severe head injury is significantly associated with functional (psychogenic) seizures.
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Genetics
These findings suggest that a gene or genes in the CUX2-RPH3A ~2-Mb region contribute to the pathology of epilepsy in the Japanese population.
Depression, drug-resistant epilepsy, and a reduction in family income were independent risk factors for an increased seizure frequency.
