A 50-year-old man was admitted in midwinter with fever, altered mental status and new onset generalised tonic-clonic seizure with urinary incontinence. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis revealed an opening pressure of 14.5 cm of water, normal glucose and protein 82 mg/dL (reference range: 15-45
OBJECTIVE
The Magnitude of Drug-resistant Epilepsy (DRE) in India, being unknown, takes a heavy toll on the patients and society in the form of prolonged dependence, unemployment, morbidity and mortality. We tried to explore the clinical, electro-physiological, neuro-imaging and drug-response
Eastern and Western interpretations of contextual control of phasic conditional responses (transswitching) are contrasted. The Eastern (Asratyan, 1965) approach emphasizes the role of the tonic conditional stimulus and the (hypothetical) tonic response it evokes. The Western (Lachnit, 1986) approach
In Finland, only limited data exist on the epidemiology of epilepsy in adults. This prompted us to study the incidence and prevalence of epilepsy in a population over 15 years of age, residing in Eastern Finland. In a retrospective study, various medical data sources were used to identify and
BACKGROUND
Our present observational study attempted to evaluate the clinical profiles, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up results of 51 pediatric neurocysticercosis patients over a mean duration of five years (from January 2006 to December 2010).
METHODS
Diagnosis was mainly based on clinical
BACKGROUND
Tyrosinase plays a key role in hyperpigmentaion and enzymatic browning. The present study was aimed at investigating the inhibitory effects of water and 70% aqueous ethanol extracts of Stichopus japonicus, a sea cucumber long consumed as a tonic food and traditional medicine, on the
Epilepsy is one of the most frequent diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) in children. It is considered that roughly 50% of epilepsies begin during childhood. The Department of Childrens' Neurology of the Medical Academy of Białystok embraces with medical attention over 500 children with
BACKGROUND
Epilepsy is a chronic disease and neurocysticercosis is an important cause of secondary seizures. Its therapy is modified by a number of parameters and thus the pattern of anti-epileptic drugs used varies in different clinical settings. It was our objective to evaluate clinico-demographic
Single unit recordings were made from the relay cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the eastern chipmunk. Of 362 relay cells, 47 cells (13%) were classified as color sensitive and the rest as non-color sensitive cells. Non-color sensitive cells were further classified into 5 subclasses:
Using the anxiety-affinitive constitution index (AACI) that we created, we measured the degree of the anxiety-affinitive constitution as an equivalent of ill-health for the study of psychoimmuno-endrocrinological changes induced by Kampo medication and relaxation training (RT). With 20 sixth-year
Aging is the single most important risk factor that increases susceptibility to many forms of diseases. As such, much effort has been put forward to elucidate the mechanisms behind the processes of aging and to discover novel compounds that retain antiaging activities. Korean red ginseng has been
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To study the clinical, EEG, neuroimaging, treatment results and outcome in Jordanian patients observed in a tertiary care referral center and compare the findings with those from Western and Middle/Far Eastern literature.
METHODS
The case notes of 200 patients with epilepsy examined in an
We report on a white Afrikaans family from eastern South Africa with three members affected with North Sea progressive myoclonus epilepsy, resulting from a homozygous founder GOSR2 mutation (c.430G>T, p.Gly144Trp). The mutation was identified by exomic sequencing in a research study
Shigoka (SGK), the rhizome of Eleutherococcus senticosus, is a traditional medicine used as a tonic in northeastern Asia and far eastern Russia. We analyzed the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence of the medicine available on the Japanese and Chinese markets and found
Cordyceps militaris is a traditional herbal ingredient frequently used for tonic and medicinal purposes in eastern Asia. The hot water extract of its cultivated fruiting bodies demonstrated a potent cytotoxic effect against the proliferation of the human premyelocytic leukemia cell HL-60, with an
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