schizencephaly/spasm

Schizencephaly is a rare congenital cerebral malformation, which usually produces static neurological symptoms. Occasionally, mass effect on the schizencephalic cavity may cause progressive neurological deficit. Surgical intervention is, therefore, needed to relieve the increased intracranial

Background Eating epilepsy (EE) is a rare form of reflex epilepsy in which seizures are induced by eating. It is known that most patients with eating seizures, in fact, suffer from symptomatic temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), whereas only a few patients with epileptic spasms induced by eating (E-ES)

OBJECTIVE We analyzed the electroclinical features, etiology, treatment, and outcome of 12 patients with West syndrome (WS) associated with focal hypsarrhythmia (FH). METHODS Between February 2005 and July 2013, 12 patients met the electroclinical diagnostic criteria of WS associated with FH.

Aicardi syndrome is a triad of abnormalities that includes total or partial agenesis of the corpus callosum, chorioretinal lacunae, and infantile spasms. This syndrome was first described in 1965. A female infant with Aicardi syndrome associated with a nasoethmoidal cephalocele is described in this

We reviewed the epileptogenic cortical malformations for which a causative gene has been cloned or a linkage obtained. X-linked bilateral periventricular nodular heterotopia (BPNH) consists of typical BPNH with epilepsy in female patients and prenatal lethality in most males. About 90% of patients

Malformations of the cerebral cortex are an important cause of developmental disabilities and epilepsy. Here we review those malformations for which a genetic basis has been elucidated or is suspected and the types of associated epilepsy. Schizencephaly (cleft brain) has a wide anatomo-clinical

BACKGROUND Neuroimaging and experimental studies have related cytomegalovirus (CMV) to certain neuronal migration disorders. METHODS To define the electroclinical picture of children with epilepsy associated with disorders of cortical development (DCD) and congenital CMV infection, we conducted a

Neuronal migrational disorders form a significant cause of psychomotor delay and intractable epilepsy in children. Pediatric neurology services are available at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman, which is a tertiary care hospital for the whole country. The children undergoing

In 1926, Foix, Chavany and Marie described an acquired syndrome of fasciopharyngoglossomasticatory diplegia resulting from bilateral infarction of the anterior operculum. Clinical features consisted of facial diplegia, dysarthria, pseudobulbar palsy, mild to severe mental retardation, and seizures.

Several malformation syndromes with abnormal cortical development have been recognized. Specific causative gene defects and characteristic electroclinical patterns have been identified for some. X-linked periventricular nodular heterotopia is mainly seen in female patients and is often associated

We review here those malformations of the cerebral cortex which are most often observed in epilepsy patients, for which a genetic basis has been elucidated or is suspected and give indications for genetic testing. There are three forms of lissencephaly (agyria-pachygyria) resulting from mutations of

We review here those malformations of the cerebral cortex which are most often observed in epilepsy patients, for which a genetic basis has been elucidated or is suspected and give indications for genetic testing. There are three forms of lissencephaly (agyria-pachygyria) resulting from mutations of