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Reflex Epilepsy: eMedicine Neurology

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Overview: BackgroundReflex epilepsy is a condition in which seizures can be provoked habitually by an external stimulus or, less commonly, internal mental processes. Individuals with reflex epilepsy may have seizures exclusively in response to specific stimuli and not ...

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Newly updated eMedicine article Reflex Epilepsy: http://bit.ly/di5FLP.

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Since the late 19th century, surgery has been accepted as a treatment for medically refractory epilepsy. Although a multicenter randomized trial has not been performed, published data from individual centers and pooled data from the University of ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Medical Intractability Approximately 0.5-0.9% of the US population (ie, 3 million people) have been diagnosed with epilepsy. Half of these patients have partial seizures, and in 30%, seizures are not controlled adequately with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). A conservative ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Role of EEG in Epilepsy Syndromes EEG is an essential component in the evaluation of epilepsy. The EEG provides important information about background EEG and epileptiform discharges and is required for the diagnosis of specific electroclinical syndromes.1 ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Benign Childhood Epilepsy: eMedicine Neurology

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Epilepsy is defined as 2 or more unprovoked seizures. The various types of epilepsy differ in many aspects, including (1) age of onset, (2) semiology, (3) EEG findings, and (4) outcome. In 1987, Freeman et al reported ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Partial epilepsies are epileptic disorders in which seizure semiology or findings at investigation disclose localized origin of seizures.For more information on epilepsy, see Medscape's Epilepsy Resource Center. Pathophysiology Most partial epilepsies are the result of a ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: An estimated 1% of the general population has epilepsy. In close to 30% of these patients, the epilepsy is intractable to medications, and many others have their seizures controlled at the expense of unacceptable adverse effects from ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Seizures and Epilepsy, Overview and Classification: eMedicine Neurology

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Epileptic seizures have been recognized for millennia. One of the earliest descriptions of a secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizure was recorded over 3000 years ago in Mesopotamia. The seizure was attributed to the god of the moon. ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) refers to a recurrent seizure disorder, the cause of which is believed to be injury to the brain. This injury can be a result of head trauma or a sequel to an operation ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Mortality due to epilepsy is a significant concern. Patients with epilepsy have a mortality rate significantly higher than that of the general population. Standardized mortality rate (SMR) is shown to be 1.6-9.3 times higher in ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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eMedicine article Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy updated for 2009. #health #medicine #neurology #epilepsy #seizure http://bit.ly/FENms

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Treatment: Broadly, seizures can be classified into generalized or focal. The term complex partial seizure was originally defined by the International League Alliance on Epilepsy (ILAE) in 1981. A complex partial seizure starts focally within the brain ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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RT @PharmEdGuy: @ohsuneuro complex partial szs. Rx options http://ow.ly/k7km WebMD - good list, but how do you choose med? #neuroclerk

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: In 1895, Kojewnikoff described a unique type of prolonged seizure, which he named epilepsia partialis continua (EPC). Since then, this name has been ascribed to various nosological entities: EPC as a variation of jacksonian epilepsy, as a ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Status epilepticus (SE) is defined as seizure activity that lasts more than 30 minutes, constituting a neurological emergency. Seizure activity may be continuous or intermittent without the patient recovering consciousness. Most of the literature deals with ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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