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Epilessia benigna a focolai centro-temporali con crisi riflesse da stimoli visivi e tattili
No full textEEG Dinamico nella valutazione delle recidive dopo sospensione della terapia antiepilettica.
No full textÉpilepsie de la télévision: existe-t-elle encore?
No full textIn the 1960s, TV was recognized as a trigger of visually induced seizures in photosensitive patients (due especially to the lack of stability of pictures with the old B/W screens, and to the short distance to the screen). Sensitivity to colour TV appeared somewhat later and does not seem to differ from that to B/W screens. The marketing of new, bigger TV screens (LCD, TFT and plasma), with 100 Hz frequency, and variable technical specifications (including colour scales and luminance) should decrease the risk of inducing seizures in photosensitive patients, as the increasingly complex epileptogenic features (colours and patterns) contained in advertisements, programs and games, can be manipulated. However, recent studies have shown the higher sensitivity of younger children to TV images, especially when associated with videogames that imply a greater, active participation. In our modern world, children and teenagers are increasingly exposed to potentially epileptogenic visual stimuli or various origins, and it can be expected that more and younger children will experience seizures in front of their TV in the coming years. Although the visual inducing factor is still TV, it is the association of TV and videogames that accounts for TV-induced seizures
Lateralization and outcome of EEG abnormalities in benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes.
No full textL’ Epilessia parziale Benigna a punte Centro-Temporali (BECTS) è stata messa in relazione con altre forme di epilessia parziale idiopatica per il riscontro di analogie morfologiche e topologiche nei patterns EEG. Tali ipotetiche relazioni derivano da osservazioni di singoli casi, non essendo mai stati effettuati studi sistematici su campioni omogenei di BECTS. Lo studio si basa sulla valutazione longitudinale dei patterns EEG (follow up medio 6,3 anni), in 36 pazienti con BECTS. Le anomalie EEG all’ esordio erano prevalentemente unilaterali e regredivano nel 50% dei casi al termine del follow up. Patterns EEG extrarolandici erano presenti in 8 pazienti, in tutti la sede era occipitale; 5 di loro presentavano anche una risposta fotoparossistica alla SLI; 4 di loro presentavano anche altri tipi di crisi con sintomi tipici delle Epilessie Idiopatiche del Lobo Occipitale (Sindrome di Panayotopoulos e Sindrome di Gastaut). E’ probabile che alcuni pazienti con BECTS abbiano una predisposizione genetica a uno spettro più ampio di espressività elettroclinica età-dipendente. Ulteriori informazioni da studi clinici e genetici sono necessarie per capire il tipo di relazione che intercorre tra le diverse forme di Epilessia Parziale Idiopatica dell’ infanzia
Adult Social Adjustment After Well-Controlled Childhood-Onset
No full textAim of the study was to assess the adult social adjustment of patients with well-controlled epilepsy of childhood. Data were collected in a sample of 82 patients (47 males, 35 females; age at the interview 19-40 years; mean 30,5 yrs) with idiopathic epilepsy in childhood (antiepileptic drugs stopped after at least 2 years of seizure remission). Social outcome and competences (employment, marriage, ecc.) were compared with data of a general reference population
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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