Childhood epilepsy

A case of Rasmussen encephalitis in a 8 year old child is reported here who presented with recurrent focal seizures and progressive weakness of left half of body. EEG showed electrical features of epilepsy. MRI brain showed cortical atrophy of one brain hemisphere. On the basis of clinical and radiological evidence, diagnosis of Rasmussen encephalitis was made which is a rare neurological disorder of childhood.

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Part 2 book "Pellock’s pediatric epilepsy" includes content: Barbiturates and primidone; benzodiazepines; carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, and eslicarbazepine; ethosuximide, methsuximide, and trimethadione; gabapentin and pregabalin; levetiracetam and brivaracetam; the ketogenic diet; surgical evaluation, noninvasive presurgical functional mapping; psychiatric comorbidities of childhood epilepsy;...and other contents.

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Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological disease seen in Pediatrics Neurology Units in many developing countries. It affects negatively on school attendance and academic performance.

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Elevated rates of affective disturbance in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) have been reported. However, it remains unclear how anxiety and depression are related to epilepsy, and it is unknown whether these mood disorders are influenced by the use of antiepileptic drugs.

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(BQ) Part 1 of the document Pediatric neurology presents the following contents: Maximum length sequencetechnique improves detectionof neuropathology involvinginfant brainstem, childhood epilepsy and cognition, toward better recognition ofearly predictors for autism spectrumdisorders (ASDS).

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Epidemiology 101 should use examples not limited to traditional health and medicine, again as recommended by LEAP learning outcomes and principles of excellence. Cause and effect might be illustrated by examples from biology or economics. Quantitative decision-making may use examples ranging from forensics to environmental monitoring. The specific examples are less important than the emphasis on illustrations reinforcing the broad applicability of epidemiology from basic science to public policy....

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Many studies have shown that education and counseling involving the entire family structure help to alleviate some of the negative attitudes towards patient with epilepsy or seizure disorders. 6 Parents or a child attendants are usually not well counseled. We believe that counseling skills are a weak component in managing patients in all medical disciplines and they need to be strengthened. The art of counseling should be dealt with earlier particularly at medical schools.

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In spite of remarkable progress in drug therapy, childhood and adolescent epilepsy is often a distressing condition lasting several years before possible recovery. Adaptation problems to the disease and also to health recovery are likely to occur. Stigma and discrimination may persist also after recovery. 11,12 Depression in children and adolescents with epilepsy is a common but often unrecognized disorder. Both epilepsy and depression are characterized by a chronic course and poor long- term psychosocial outcome.

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Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder in adolescence. The convulsive disorders may conveniently be divided into epilepsy beginning before adolescence and epilepsy arising during adolescence. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy typically begins in early adolescence with a peak of onset between 13 and 15 years of age. Primary generalized epilepsy namely the juvenile absence epilepsy is an age-related onset usually at puberty is a distinct syndrome from childhood absence epilepsy.

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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Review Open Access Health-related quality of life in childhood epilepsy: Moving beyond 'seizure control with minimal adverse effects' Gabriel M Ronen*1, David L Streiner2 and Peter Rosenbaum1 Address: 1Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N 3Z5 and 2Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto., 734-3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6A 2E1 Email: Gabriel M Ronen* - roneng@mcmaster.

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