Clinical commentaries

Clinical Commentaries are short reports of case studies that reflect truly novel findings.

Volume 20, issue 6, December 2018

Cortical surface intracranial electrodes identify clinically relevant seizures missed on scalp EEG after traumatic intracranial hemorrhage
Chris R. Marcellino, Samuel Lapalme-Remis, Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Jamie J. Van Gompel, Gregory A. Worrell, Eric T. Payne, Sara Hocker

Intractable apnoeic seizures in a child with a deletion typically associated with Williams syndrome

Saber Jan, Ayako Ochi, Kota Kagawa, Peter Gill, Astrid Guttmann, Hiroshi Otsubo, Jeff Kobayashi

Hemiconvulsion-Hemiplegia-Epilepsy in a girl with cobalamin C deficiency
Kenneth A. Myers, Roy WR. Dudley, Myriam Srour

Under-reporting of nocturnal seizures using video-based home monitoring: a case study on the evaluation of the effect of vagal nerve stimulation

Stefano Peciola, Sari-Leena Himanen, Andrew Knight, Maxine Dibué-Adjei, Sirpa Rainesalo, Jukka Peltola

KCNQ2 mutation in an infant with encephalopathy of infancy with migrating focal seizures
Alexander Freibauer, Kevin Jones

Faciobrachial dystonic seizures expressed as epileptic spasms, followed by focal seizures in anti-LGI1 encephalitis: a video-polygraphic study

Giuseppe d’Orsi, Tommaso Martino, Alessandra Lalla, Maria Teresa Di Claudio, Elena Carapelle, Carlo Avolio

Juvenile absence epilepsy relapsing as recurrent absence status, mimicking transient global amnesia, in an elderly patient
Lorenzo Muccioli, Laura Licchetta, Carlotta Stipa, Paolo Tinuper, Francesca Bisulli

Volume 20, issue 5, October 2018

Stimulation-induced ictal vocalisation of left frontal lobe origin

Leyla Baysal-Kirac, Elisabeth Hartl, Christian Vollmar, Katharina Ernst, Hannah Lohr, Soheyl Noachtar

Sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy and peri-ictal hypotension in a patient with syntaxin-1B mutation

Joao Peres, Francisco Antunes, Bilal Zonjy, Anna L. Mitchell, Samden D. Lhatoo

Refractory epilepsy secondary to anti-GAD encephalitis treated with DBS post SEEG evaluation: a novel case report based on stimulation findings
Lisa Gillinder, Alexander Lehn, Jason Papacostas, Sarah Olson, Stefan Blum, Sasha Dionisio

Ictal SPECT reveals different epileptogenic zones in frontal lobe epilepsy
Pedro Correia, Christian Vollmar, Jan Rémi, Christian la Fougere, Soheyl Noachtar

Electroclinical history of a five-year-old girl with GRIN1-related early-onset epileptic encephalopathy: a video-case study

Erica Pironti, Francesca Granata, Francesca Cucinotta, Antonella Gagliano, Stephanie Efthymiou, Henry Houlden, Vincenzo Salpietro, Gabriella Di Rosa

Genetic (idiopathic) generalized epilepsy with occipital semiology
Pablo Gómez-Porro, Angel Aledo Serrano, Rafael Toledano, Irene García-Morales, Antonio Gil-Nagel

Lacosamide for SCN2A-related intractable neonatal and infantile seizures
Flor-Hirsch Hadar, Heyman Eli, Livneh Ayelet, Reish Orit, Watemberg Nathan, Litmanovits Ita, Ben Sason Lilli Anat, Lev Dorit, Lerman Sagie Tally, Bassan Haim

Diaper changing-induced reflex seizures in CDKL5-related epilepsy

Roberta Solazzi, Elena Fiorini, Elena Parrini, Francesca Darra, Bernardo Dalla Bernardina, Gaetano Cantalupo

Volume 20, issue 4, August 2018

Epileptic ictal strabismus: a case report and review of the literature

Francesco Brigo, Franco Alessandrini, Giammario Ragnedda, Piera Canu, Veronica Tavernelli, Arianna Bratti, Raffaele Nardone

Neonatal tremor episodes and hyperekplexia-like presentation at onset in a child with SCN8A developmental andepileptic encephalopathy

Linda Pons, Gaëtan Lesca, Damien Sanlaville, Nicolas Chatron, Audrey Labalme, Véronique Manel, Alexis Arzimanoglou, Julitta de Bellescize, Laurence Lion-François

Biallelic loss-of-function UBA5 mutations in a patient with intractable West syndrome and profound failure to thrive
Atsuro Daida, Shin-ichiro Hamano, Satoru Ikemoto, Ryuki Matsuura, Mitsuko Nakashima, Naomichi Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Kato

Probable dysimmune epilepsia partialis continua manifesting as epileptic moving toes syndrome: electroclinical features of a challenging case

Francesco Brigo, Alberto Vogrig, Arianna Bratti, Veronica Tavernelli, Raffaele Nardone, Eugen Trinka

A triad of infantile spasms, nystagmus and a focal tonic seizure

Stephanie Garcia Tarodo, Thu Nguyen, Emmanuelle Ranza, Serge Vulliémoz, Christian M. Korff

A child with hyperekplexia and epileptic myoclonus

Lara Wadi, Yasser Medlej, Makram Obeid

Volume 20, issue 3, June 2018

Atypical postictal transient subcortical T2 hypointensity in a newly diagnosed diabetic patient with seizures
Matteo Paoletti, Ana Bacila, Anna Pichiecchio, Lisa Maria Farina, Elisa Rognone, Riccardo Cremascoli, Simona Fanucchi, Raffaele Manni, Stefano Bastianello

Early-onset epileptic encephalopathy with myoclonic seizures related to 9q33.3-q34.11 deletion involving STXBP1 and SPTAN1 genes
Akilandeswari Aravindhan, Kinal Shah, Jayoung Pak, Aravindhan Veerapandiyan

Two cases of opercular myoclonic-anarthric status epilepticus

Amaia Muñoz-Lopetegi, Gorka Fernández García de Eulate, Jon Rodríguez-Antigüedad Muñoz, Alberto Bergareche, Juan José Poza

Chromosome 14q11.2-q21.1 duplication: a rare cause of West syndrome
Özdem Ertürk Çetin, Cengiz Yalçınkaya, Birsen Karaman, Veysi Demirbilek, Beyhan Tüysüz

Antiepileptic effect of olanzapine in epilepsy patients with atypical depressive comorbidity
Xiangmiao Qiu, Bianca Zingano, Shixu He, Xi Zhu, Anjiao Peng, Jianan Duan, Peter Wolf, Lei Chen

A case of perioral myoclonia with absences and its evolution in adulthood?
Reyhan Surmelı, Hatice Kurucu, Ayse Destina Yalcın, Seher Naz Yenı

GAD65 antibody-associated autoimmune epilepsy with unique independent bitemporal-onset ictal asystole
Caitlin E. D'Souza, Anteneh M. Feyissa

High-level visual manifestations of epileptic seizures originating from the medial parietal cortex
Shrita Pendekanti, Sori Baek, Yagmur Basak Kilinc, Josef Parvizi

Volume 20, issue 2, April 2018

Ictal laryngospasm monitored by video-EEG and polygraphy: a potential SUDEP mechanism

Nuria Lacuey, Laura Vilella, Johnson P. Hampson, Jayakumar Sahadevan, Samden D. Lhatoo

Rapid antiepileptic drug withdrawal may obscure localizing information obtained during presurgical EEG recordings
Yulia Novitskaya, Mandy Hintz, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage

Electroclinical and radiological observation of dysfunctional zones in a patient with neurosyphilis
Katsuya Sakai, Shogo Yazawa, Akiko Sugimoto, Koichi Nakao, Kazuhito Tsuruta, Eiji Ochiai, Yukiko Suzuki, Masao Matsuhashi

Unilateral abdominal clonic seizures of parietal lobe origin: EEG findings

Danah Aljaafari, Fábio A. Nascimento, Alon Abraham, Danielle M. Andrade, Richard A. Wennberg

Volume 20, issue 1, February 2018

Clinical-radiological-pathological correlation in an unusual case of refractory epilepsy: a two-year journey of whodunit!
Deepak Menon, Ramshekhar N Menon, Chandrasekharan Kesavadas, Anita Mahadevan, Ashalatha Radhakrishnan, Sudheeran Kannoth, Pradeep P Nair, Mathew Abraham, Bejoy Thomas, Sanjeev V Thomas

Sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy activated by rapid eye movement sleep

Xiaoli Wang, Lara V Marcuse, Lang Jin, Ying Zhang, Wenjuan Zhang, Beibei Chen, Na Yuan, Bi Wang, Yonghong Liu

De novo absence status epilepticus of late onset (DNASLO) precipitated by oral treatment with cefuroxime: description of an ambulatory case
José L Fernández-Torre, Alicia Paramio-Paz, Anjana López-Delgado, María Martín-García, Isabel González-Aramburu, Miguel A Hernández-Hernández

Somatosensory reflex epilepsy: simultaneous video-EEG monitoring and surface EMG

Kyoung Jin Hwang, Dae Won Seo, Seong Bong Hong, Eun Yeon Joo

Exceptional response to brivaracetam in a patient with refractory idiopathic generalized epilepsy and absence seizures
Alberto Grande-Martín, David Sopelana-Garay, José Manuel Pardal-Fernández, Rosa María Sánchez-Honrubia, Álvaro Abelardo Sánchez-Larsen

Volume 19, issue 4, December 2017

Seizure semiology of anti-LGI1 antibody encephalitis

Nicholas J. Beimer, Linda M. Selwa

Serial EEG findings in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: correlation between clinical course and EEG
Jun Ueda, Michi Kawamoto, Ryota Hikiami, Junko Ishii, Hajime Yoshimura, Riki Matsumoto, Nobuo Kohara

A case of post-leptospirosis autoimmune epilepsy presenting with sleep-related hypermotor seizures

Prashant Makhija, Siby Gopinath, Sudheeran Kannoth, Kurupath Radhakrishnan

Mowat-Wilson syndrome presenting with fever-associated seizures
Se Eun Seo, Se Hee Kim, Seung Tae Lee, Jong Rak Choi, Joon Soo Lee, Heung Dong Kim, Hoon-Chul Kang

Adult-onset Rasmussen encephalitis associated with focal cortical dysplasia
Katharina Hohenbichler, Julie Lelotte, Renaud Lhommel, Riëm El Tahry, Pascal Vrielynck, Susana Ferrao Santos

Occipital ulegyria causing epilepsy and visual impairment: an easily overlooked epilepsy syndrome
Antoinette O’Connor, Daniel J. Costello

A case of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis revealed by insular epilepsy
Charlotte De Maeseneire, Riem El Tahry, Susana Ferrao Santos

Volume 19, issue 3, September 2017

Brain connectivity changes during ictal aggression (a strangulation attempt)
Fabrice Bartolomei, Stanislas Lagarde, Isabelle Lambert, Agnes Trébuchon, Samuel Médina Villalon, Aileen McGonigal, Christian G Benar

Acquired epileptic opercular syndrome related to a heterozygous deleterious substitution in GRIN2A

Claudine Sculier, Anne-Sophie Tilmant, Xavier De Tiège, Sanda Giurgea, Philippe Paquier, Gabrielle Rudolf, Gaetan Lesca, Patrick Van Bogaert

Practical clues for diagnosing WWOX encephalopathy
Oana Tarta-Arsene, Diana Barca, Dana Craiu, Catrinel Iliescu

Pointed rhythmic theta waves: a unique EEG pattern in KCNQ2-related neonatal epileptic encephalopathy

Sarah Grace Buttle, Erick Sell, David Dyment, Srinivas Bulusu, Daniela Pohl

Transient lesions of the splenium of the corpus callosum following rapid withdrawal of levetiracetam
Ryo Sawagashira, Hisashi Narita, Naoki Hashimoto, Tsugiko Kurita, Shin Nakagawa, Takuya Saitoh, Ichiro Kusumi