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Series: Modern Trends in Psychiatry
Volume: 4
Published online: 01 January 2015
Published in print: 13 January 1970
10.1159/isbn.978-3-318-03959-7
EISBN: 978-3-318-03959-7
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Published: 22 September 2022
10.1159/isbn.978-3-318-07194-8
EISBN: 978-3-318-07194-8
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 39
Published: 03 August 2016
10.1159/000445417
EISBN: 978-3-318-05865-9
... Abstract Background: A major concern over the development of new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is that the new AEDs have not added substantial clinical benefit over available antiseizure treatment. Additionally, current AEDs have neither improved the health of epilepsy patients nor been shown...
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Series: Progress in Neurological Surgery
Volume: 29
Published: 09 September 2015
10.1159/000434654
EISBN: 978-3-318-02809-6
... Abstract Medical treatment of seizures yields a satisfactory response in 75-80% of the patients; resective epilepsy surgery is a therapeutic option for those patients who are refractory to drug therapy, but there is still a considerable portion (20-30%) of patients who are ineligible...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 34
Published: 23 April 2014
10.1159/000356435
EISBN: 978-3-318-02568-2
... Abstract The association between epilepsy and the hippocampus is well known and important. Mesial temporal epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis is a syndromic diagnostic entity and indeed a quite common one. There are different theories on the pathophysiological pathways, as the hippocampus...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 31
Published: 07 March 2013
10.1159/000343236
EISBN: 978-3-318-02272-8
... Abstract Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) suffered from epilepsy. Some type of psychopathology can be found in about 25% of the characters of his novels. Some of them have seizures. In at least five of them Dostoevsky clearly intends them to have epilepsy. Others are more likely...
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Published: 17 August 2012
10.1159/000336360
EISBN: 978-3-8055-9930-6
... Abstract Gender has clear implications for the management of people with epilepsy. The important issues are mainly related to pharmacological treatment and the periods in life that are unique to women and to the interactions between sex hormones, antiepileptic drugs, and epilepsy...
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Published: 01 March 2012
10.1159/isbn.978-1-908541-19-2
EISBN: 978-1-908541-19-2
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Series: Progress in Neurological Surgery
Volume: 20
Published: 22 February 2007
10.1159/000100169
EISBN: 978-3-318-01416-7
... Abstract The first Gamma Knife radiosurgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy was performedin Marseille in March 1993. Since then, around 130 patients have undergone epilepsysurgery using Gamma Knife at Marseille Timone University Hospital. The majority ofepilepsy surgeries in our epilepsy...
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Series: Progress in Neurological Surgery
Volume: 20
Published: 22 February 2007
10.1159/000100171
EISBN: 978-3-318-01416-7
... Abstract Radiosurgery is being investigated as an alternative to open surgical resection forpatients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy. Additionally, the biological effects of mesial temporalradiosurgery are being evaluated using several animal models. The mechanisms throughwhich radiosurgery...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 19
Published: 28 April 2005
10.1159/000085603
EISBN: 978-3-318-01206-4
... a misdiagnosis. Alternatively, he mayhave suffered from complex partial epilepsy which was complicated or caused by substanceabuse. In any case, his personal experiences clearly influenced many of his major works. Herepresents a fascinating case of a neurological condition in a talented individual, who wasthen...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 19
Published: 28 April 2005
10.1159/000085604
EISBN: 978-3-318-01206-4
... and psychoanalysis.The study of auto- and hetero-biographic reports, as well as of his literary production,suggests that he suffered from epilepsy since his mid-20s. Most of his seizures weredescribed as generalized convulsive; however, many features, such as the presence of an‘ecstatic’ aura, a pallor preceding...
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Series: Progress in Neurological Surgery
Volume: 18
Published: 09 March 2005
10.1159/000084461
EISBN: 978-3-318-01114-2
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Series: Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop Series: Clinical & Performance Program
Volume: 5
Published: 07 May 2001
10.1159/000061835
EISBN: 978-3-318-00651-3
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Series: Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Volume: 6
Published: 01 December 1994
10.1159/000423843
EISBN: 978-3-318-04059-3
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Series: Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Volume: 6
Published: 01 December 1994
10.1159/000423855
EISBN: 978-3-318-04059-3