…with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS, Rolandic epilepsy), benign childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxsysms (Panayiotopoulos syndrome) and the frontal lobe epilepsy syndromes (including autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy ADNFLE). Idiopathic generalised…
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…Incidence of migraine varies with epilepsy subtype, occurring in 75% of people with occipital epilepsy [14]. Peri-ictal headache & interaction with epilepsy There is no evidence that migraine causes epilepsy…
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…The global burden and stigma of epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2008;12:540-546 Kanner AM. Depression in epilepsy: a frequently neglected multifaceted disorder. Epilepsy Behav 2003;4 Suppl 4:11-19. Blumer D. Dysphoric disorders and…
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…women and epilepsy; social effects of epilepsy. Now, 20 years on, it is interesting to review progress. Differential diagnosis of epilepsy The differential diagnosis of epilepsy has not changed. The…
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…in patients with unilateral and wide-spread epilepsy. Common conditions include congenital hemiplegia from a prenatal vascular insult, Sturge-Weber syndrome, hemimegencephaly or diffuse hemispheric cortical dysplasia, Rasmussen encephalitis, hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy, or a…
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…of clinical genetics at Epilepsy Society explains how genetic diagnosis enabled a woman to speak for the first time in 16 years Epilepsy Society’s neuropsychologist Sallie Baxendale discusses epilepsy surgery…
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…Council (2011) Epilepsy prevalence, incidence and other statistics http://www.epilepsyscotland.org.uk/pdf/Joint_Epilepsy_Council_Prevalence_and_Incidence_September_11_(3).pdf Young Epilepsy (2017) Epilepsy support in schools: Survey of young people with epilepsy and their parents and carers https://youngepilepsy.org.uk/images/Epilepsy_support_in_schools_report_-_Oct_17.pdf Further information: Young Epilepsy…
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This summer’s Childhood Epilepsy Masterclass was held in the Neville Childhood Epilepsy Centre at Young Epilepsy headquarters in Lingfield, Surrey. Young Epilepsy, as the only UK charity working exclusively to…
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…Senior Children’s Epilepsy Nurse and Margaret Wilson, Paediatric Epilepsy Nurse Consultant. They spoke very passionately about the role of the epilepsy nurse specialist and how this has evolved over the…
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