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    Epilepsia: Volume 57, Issue 3

    343-522, e51-e75, 523-527
    March 2016
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CRITICAL REVIEW AND INVITED COMMENTARY

Epileptic encephalopathy: Use and misuse of a clinically and conceptually important concept

Katherine B. Howell,  A. Simon Harvey,  John S. Archer, 
  • Pages: 343-347
  • First Published: 18 January 2016

SPECIAL REPORT

International recommendation for a comprehensive neuropathologic workup of epilepsy surgery brain tissue: A consensus Task Force report from the ILAE Commission on Diagnostic Methods

Ingmar Blümcke,  Eleonora Aronica,  Hajime Miyata,  Harvey B. Sarnat,  Maria Thom,  Karl Roessler,  Bertil Rydenhag,  Lara Jehi,  Pavel Krsek,  Samuel Wiebe,  Roberto Spreafico, 
  • Pages: 348-358
  • First Published: 03 February 2016

FULL-LENGTH ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Human focal seizures are characterized by populations of fixed duration and interval

Mark J. Cook,  Philippa J. Karoly,  Dean R. Freestone,  David Himes,  Kent Leyde,  Samuel Berkovic,  Terence O'Brien,  David B. Grayden,  Ray Boston, 
  • Pages: 359-368
  • First Published: 31 December 2015

Ictal motor sequences: Lateralization and localization values

Ahmad Marashly,  Amr Ewida,  Rajkumar Agarwal,  Kyan Younes,  Hans O. Lüders, 
  • Pages: 369-375
  • First Published: 11 February 2016

Differential gene expression in dentate granule cells in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal sclerosis

Nicole G. Griffin,  Yu Wang,  Christine M. Hulette,  Matt Halvorsen,  Kenneth D. Cronin,  Nicole M. Walley,  Michael M. Haglund,  Rodney A. Radtke,  J. H. Pate Skene,  Saurabh R. Sinha,  Erin L. Heinzen, 
  • Pages: 376-385
  • First Published: 22 January 2016

Is SEEG safe? A systematic review and meta-analysis of stereo-electroencephalography–related complications

Jeffrey P. Mullin,  Michael Shriver,  Soha Alomar,  Imad Najm,  Juan Bulacio,  Patrick Chauvel,  Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, 
  • Pages: 386-401
  • First Published: 21 February 2016

Altered directed functional connectivity in temporal lobe epilepsy in the absence of interictal spikes: A high density EEG study

Ana Coito,  Melanie Genetti,  Francesca Pittau,  Giannina R. Iannotti,  Aljoscha Thomschewski,  Yvonne Höller,  Eugen Trinka,  Roland Wiest,  Margitta Seeck,  Christoph M. Michel,  Gijs Plomp,  Serge Vulliemoz, 
  • Pages: 402-411
  • First Published: 18 February 2016

Postictal immobility and generalized EEG suppression are associated with the severity of respiratory dysfunction

Jonathan Kuo,  Wenjie Zhao,  Chin-Shang Li,  Jeffrey D. Kennedy,  Masud Seyal, 
  • Pages: 412-417
  • First Published: 14 January 2016

Heart rate variability in untreated newly diagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy: Evidence for ictal sympathetic dysregulation

Andrea Romigi,  Maria Albanese,  Fabio Placidi,  Francesca Izzi,  Nicola B. Mercuri,  Angela Marchi,  Claudio Liguori,  Nicoletta Campagna,  Andrea Duggento,  Antonio Canichella,  Giada Ricciardo Rizzo,  Maria Guerrisi,  Maria G. Marciani,  Nicola Toschi, 
  • Pages: 418-426
  • First Published: 27 January 2016

Measurement equivalence of the newly developed Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire (QOLCE-55)

Mark A. Ferro,  Shane W. Goodwin,  Mark Sabaz,  Kathy N. Speechley, 
  • Pages: 427-435
  • First Published: 10 January 2016

PET hypermetabolism in medically resistant childhood epilepsy: Incidence, associations, and surgical outcome

Lalit Bansal,  Ian Miller,  Ann Hyslop,  Sanjiv Bhatia,  Michael Duchowny,  Prasanna Jayakar, 
  • Pages: 436-444
  • First Published: 18 January 2016

7T MRI in focal epilepsy with unrevealing conventional field strength imaging

Alessio De Ciantis,  Carmen Barba,  Laura Tassi,  Mirco Cosottini,  Michela Tosetti,  Mauro Costagli,  Manuela Bramerio,  Emanuele Bartolini,  Laura Biagi,  Massimo Cossu,  Veronica Pelliccia,  Mark R. Symms,  Renzo Guerrini, 
  • Pages: 445-454
  • First Published: 18 January 2016

The influence of socioeconomic status on health resource utilization in pediatric epilepsy in a universal health insurance system

Klajdi Puka,  Mary Lou Smith,  Rahim Moineddin,  O. Carter Snead,  Elysa Widjaja, 
  • Pages: 455-463
  • First Published: 19 January 2016
Open Access

Health and economic benefits of public financing of epilepsy treatment in India: An agent-based simulation model

Itamar Megiddo,  Abigail Colson,  Dan Chisholm,  Tarun Dua,  Arindam Nandi,  Ramanan Laxminarayan, 
  • Pages: 464-474
  • First Published: 14 January 2016

Distinct white matter integrity in glutamic acid decarboxylase and voltage-gated potassium channel-complex antibody-associated limbic encephalitis

Jan Wagner,  Jan-Christoph Schoene-Bake,  Juri-Alexander Witt,  Christoph Helmstaedter,  Michael P. Malter,  Winfried Stoecker,  Christian Probst,  Bernd Weber,  Christian E. Elger, 
  • Pages: 475-483
  • First Published: 08 January 2016

Environmental enrichment delays limbic epileptogenesis and restricts pathologic synaptic plasticity

Meng Yang,  Ezgi Ozturk,  Michael R. Salzberg,  Sandra Rees,  Margaret Morris,  Terence J. O'Brien,  Nigel C. Jones, 
  • Pages: 484-494
  • First Published: 20 January 2016
Open Access

Enhanced long-term potentiation in mature rats in a model of epileptic spasms with betamethasone-priming and postnatal N-methyl-d-aspartate administration

Megumi Tsuji,  Yukari Takahashi,  Ayako M. Watabe,  Fusao Kato, 
  • Pages: 495-505
  • First Published: 21 January 2016

Effects of selective serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors on depressive- and impulsive-like behaviors and on monoamine transmission in experimental temporal lobe epilepsy

Udaya Kumar,  Jesus-Servando Medel-Matus,  Hannah M. Redwine,  Don Shin,  Julie G. Hensler,  Raman Sankar,  Andrey Mazarati, 
  • Pages: 506-515
  • First Published: 27 January 2016

What factors contribute to the risk of depression in epilepsy?—Tasmanian Epilepsy Register Mood Study (TERMS)

Cameron J. Lacey,  Michael R. Salzberg,  Wendyl J. D'Souza, 
  • Pages: 516-522
  • First Published: 14 January 2016

BRIEF COMMUNICATION

PCDH19-related epilepsy in two mosaic male patients

Alessandra Terracciano,  Marina Trivisano,  Raffaella Cusmai,  Luca De Palma,  Lucia Fusco,  Claudia Compagnucci,  Enrico Bertini,  Federico Vigevano,  Nicola Specchio, 
  • Pages: e51-e55
  • First Published: 14 January 2016

Autosomal dominant cortical tremor, myoclonus, and epilepsy (ADCME) in a unique south Indian community

Radha Mahadevan,  Natarajan Viswanathan,  Ganesan Shanmugam,  Saravanan Sankaralingam,  Bobby Essaki,  Rachel P. Chelladurai, 
  • Pages: e56-e59
  • First Published: 08 January 2016

Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy caused by a mutation in the GATOR1 complex gene NPRL3

Georg-Christoph Korenke,  Marlene Eggert,  Holger Thiele,  Peter Nürnberg,  Thomas Sander,  Ortrud K. Steinlein, 
  • Pages: e60-e63
  • First Published: 20 January 2016

Polymicrogyric Cortex may Predispose to Seizures via Abnormal Network Topology: An fMRI Connectomics Study

Moksh Sethi,  Mangor Pedersen,  Graeme D. Jackson, 
  • Pages: e64-e68
  • First Published: 14 January 2016

A pilot randomized controlled clinical trial to improve antiepileptic drug adherence in young children with epilepsy

Avani C. Modi,  Shanna M. Guilfoyle,  Krista A. Mann,  Joseph R. Rausch, 
  • Pages: e69-e75
  • First Published: 23 December 2015

GRAY MATTERS

Letters

Is there a difference between various presentations of valproate for cognitive outcome after in utero exposure?

Philippe Gelisse,  Pierre Genton,  Arielle Crespel, 
  • Pages: 523-524
  • First Published: 07 March 2016

Clobazam-induced pedal edema: “An unrecognized side effect of a common antiepileptic drug”

Thomas Mathew,  Delon D'Souza,  Uday S. Nadimpally,  Raghunandan Nadig, 
  • Pages: 524-525
  • First Published: 07 March 2016

Announcements

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Announcements

  • Pages: 525-527
  • First Published: 07 March 2016