Clinical commentaries

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

Volume 22, issue 3, June 2020

ATP6V1B2-related epileptic encephalopathy

Luciana Midori Inuzuka, Lúcia Inês Macedo-Souza, Bruno Della-Rippa, Fabiola Paoli Monteiro, Daniel de Souza Delgado, Luis Filipe Godoy, Luiza Ramos, Larissa Sampaio de Athayde Costa, Eliana Garzon, Fernando Kok

Effective posterior extension of callosotomy by gamma knife surgery
Hussein Hamdi, Sebastien Boissonneau, Sofiene Hadidane, Marc Guenot, Fabrice Bartolomei, Jean Regis

Eslicarbazepine for focal epilepsy and acute intermittent porphyria
Tamara Herrera-Fortin, Raluca Pana, Ewa Wesolowska, Josiane Bourré-Tessier, Dang K. Nguyen

A multimodal diagnostic approach for lateralised rhythmic delta activity in the ictal-interictal continuum
Maddalena Spalletti, Francesca Pescini, Davide Gadda, Benedetta Piccardi, Maenia Scarpino, Riccardo Carrai, Cristina Boccardi, Antonello Grippo, Aldo Amantini

Early-onset epileptic encephalopathy with migrating focal seizures associated with a FARS2 homozygous nonsense variant
Dorothée Ville, Gaetan Lesca, Audrey Labalme, Vincent des Portes, Alexis Arzimanoglou, Julitta de Bellescize

De novo truncating mutation in SCN1A as a cause of febrile seizures plus (FS+)
Alex Jaimes, Rosa Guerrero-López, Beatriz González-Giráldez, Jose M. Serratosa

Volume 22, issue 2, April 2020

New-onset musicogenic epilepsy after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery
Aleksa T. Pejović, Nikola Vojvodić, Tijana Djukić, Maša Kovačević, Aleksandar J. Ristić, Vladimir Baščarević, Dragoslav Sokić

Wada testing and fMRI in a polyglot evaluated for epilepsy surgery
Parker Bohm, Jake McKay, John Lucas, David Sabsevitz, Anteneh M. Feyissa, Tony Ritaccio, Sanjeet S. Grewal, Robert E. Wharen, Vivek Gupta, William O. Tatum

Praxis-induced reflex seizures in two Japanese cases with ring chromosome 20 syndrome
Hirokazu Yamagishi, Masahide Goto, Hitoshi Osaka, Mari Kuwajima, Kazuhiro Muramatsu, Takanori Yamagata

Electropositive seizures and non-convulsive status epilepticus in a critically ill patient with prior skull defect
Margaret Moores, Christopher Picheca, Tadeu A. Fantaneanu

Early Parkinsonism in a Senegalese girl with Lafora disease
Francesca Ragona, Laura Canafoglia, Barbara Castellotti, Roberta Solazzi, Sara Gabbiadini, Elena Freri, Vidmer Scaioli, Jacopo Cosimo DiFrancesco, Cinzia Gellera, Tiziana Granata

MoCA as a cognitive assessment tool for absence status epilepticus
Sofia Grenho Rodrigues, Raquel Gil Gouveia, Carla Bentes

Transient epileptic amnesia diagnosed using long-term electroencephalography

Camilla Dyremose Jensen, Thomas Krøigård, Christoph Patrick Beier

Volume 22, issue 1, February 2020

Age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy associated with an unusual co-occurrence of ZEB2 and SCN1A variants

Rosaria Nardello, Antonina Fontana, Giuseppe Donato Mangano, Stephanie Efthymiou, Vincenzo Salpietro, Henry Houlden, Salvatore Mangano

Epileptic encephalopathy with features of rapid-onset dystonia Parkinsonism and alternating hemiplegia of childhood: a novel combination phenotype associated with ATP1A3 mutation
Linh Tran, Jason Richards, Marie McDonald, Allyn McConkie-Rosell, Nicholas Stong, Joan Jasien, Vandana Shashi, Mohamad A. Mikati

Two mutations in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit A4 (CHRNA4) in a family with autosomal dominant sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy
Lisa Langenbruch, Saskia Biskup, Peter Young, Bianca Dräger, Gabriel Möddel

A Chinese patient with epilepsy and WWOX compound heterozygous mutations
Jing He, Wenjing Zhou, Jie Shi, Bingqing Zhang, Haixiang Wang

Volume 21, issue 6, December 2019

Defecation reflex seizures: a case report with long-term VEEG monitoring, neuroimaging and comprehensive epilepsy evaluation

Renata Pina Rocha, Eugenia Fialho Macedo, Regina Maria França Fernandes, Ursula Thomé, Américo C. Sakamoto, Lauro Wichert-Ana, Ana Paula Andrade Hamad

Benign spasms of infancy: a mimicker of infantile epileptic disorders

Jamie Ghossein, Daniela Pohl

Ictal asystole with intercurrent cardiopathy: a complex combination leading to delayed diagnosis

Dènahin Hinnoutondji Toffa, Raluca Pana, Dang Khoa Nguyen

Epilepsia partialis continua and cortical motor control: insights into physiology

José L. Fernández-Torre, María Martín-García, Ernesto Orozco-Sevilla, David Mato-Mañas, Miguel A. Hernández-Hernández, Enrique Marco de Lucas

LGI-1 antibody encephalitis in a seven-year-old girl

Ali Mir, Ziyad Thani, Shahid Bashir, Hana Ayed, Raidah Albaradie

Volume 21, issue 5, October 2019

Ictal kissing in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy

António Martins de Campos, Helena Rocha, José Manuel Dias da Costa, Ricardo Rego

Epileptic encephalopathy with microcephaly in a patient with asparagine synthetase deficiency: a video-EEG report

Paola Costa, Caterina Zanus, Flavio Faletra, Giulia Ventura, Giulia Maria di Marzio, Chiara Cervesi, Marco Carrozzi

Electrical stimulation of the cingulate elicits involuntary singing

Krzysztof Bujarski, Cathy Martin, Barbara Jobst, David Roberts, Andy Connolly

Avoiding anaesthetics after multiple failed drug-induced comas: an unorthodox approach to management of new-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE)
James E. Eaton, Matthew T. Meriweather, Bassel W. Abou-Khalil, Hasan H. Sonmezturk

Stimulus-induced rhythmic, periodic ictal discharges during funduscopic examination in a patient with status epilepticus
Wei-Pin Hong, Tsang-Shan Chen, Chin-Wei Huang

Perampanel-induced hair curling in a patient with epilepsy associated with Pitt Hopkins syndrome
Yamile Calle-Lopez, Prakash Kotagal, Elia Pestana Knight

Paroxysmal non-epileptic events in infancy: five cases with typical features

Eszter Nagy, Katalin Hollody

Widespread frontal lobe cortical dysplasia or partial hemimegalencephaly: a continuum of the spectrum
Emilija Cvetkovska, Igor Kuzmanovski, Bojan Boskovski, Marija Babunovska, Kiteva Gordana Trencevska

Self-stimulation in an adult misdiagnosed with focal epilepsy

Pedro Correia, Elizabeth Hartl, Soheyl Noachtar

Volume 21, issue 4, August 2019

Bilateral synchronous gamma range firing of bulbar motor units during tonic seizures
Machiel Zwarts, Gerard van Erp, Hans van Dijk

Deep brain stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus in a patient with super-refractory convulsive status epilepticus
Liu Yuan, Shaohui Zhang, Shuangshuang Liang, Na Liu, Xiaoman Yu, Shuli Liang

Volume 21, issue 3, June 2019

Ictal atrial fibrillation during focal seizures: a case report and literature review
Luca M. Basili, Alessandra Morano, Jinane Fattouch, Martina Fanella, Mariarita Albini, Federica Avorio, Emanuele Cerulli Irelli, Mario Manfredi, Claudia Urani, Stefano Strano, Anna T. Giallonardo, Carlo Di Bonaventura

Surgical treatment of extra-hypothalamic epilepsies presenting with gelastic seizures

Holger Joswig, Patricia Rejas-Pinelo, Ana Suller, Richard S. McLachlan, David A. Steven

Magnetoencephalogram-assisted diagnosis of familial focal epilepsy with variable foci in a Chinese family with a novel DEPDC5 mutation
Mingyu Li, Zhaoyang Huang, Xiating Zhang, Yiran Duan, Yu Jia, Jing Ye, Yuping Wang

Selective deep brain stimulation in the substantia nigra reduces myoclonus in progressive myoclonic epilepsy: a novel observation and short review of the literature
Andrea di Giacopo, Christian R. Baumann, Martin Kurthen, Francesco Capecchi, Oguzkan Sürücü, Lukas L. Imbach

Abdominal epilepsia partialis continua in neurocysticercosis

Ajay Asranna, Sachin Sureshbabu, Gaurav Mittal, Sudhir Peter, Shobhana Chindripu, Leena Saini

An embarrassing aura
Laura Lacazette, Olivier Boucher, Ismail Mohamed, Alain Bouthillier, Dang Khoa Nguyen

Clinical evolution and epilepsy outcome in three patients with CDKL5-related developmental encephalopathy
Pia Bernardo, Alessandro Ferretti, Gaetano Terrone, Claudia Santoro, Carmela Bravaccio, Salvatore Striano, Antonietta Coppola, Pasquale Striano

Temporal encephalocele: a novel indication for magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for medically intractable epilepsy
Manish Ranjan, Angus A. Wilfong, Varina L. Boerwinkle, Randa Jarrar, P. David Adelson

Volume 21, issue 2, April 2019

Multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumour of the cerebrum: a rare neuroimaging incidentaloma or a potentially treatable cause of focal epilepsy?
Vladimir Baščarević, Aleksa T. Pejović, Aleksandar J. Ristić, Nikola Vojvodić, Savo Raičević, Tijana Đukić, Leposava Brajković, Dragoslav Sokić

Late adult-onset epilepsy in a patient with hemimegalencephaly
Seth A. Climans, Seyed M. Mirsattari

Volume 21, issue 1, February 2019

A novel mutation in KCNQ3-related benign familial neonatal epilepsy: electroclinical features and neurodevelopmental outcome

Ettore Piro, Rosaria Nardello, Elena Gennaro, Antonina Fontana, Maurizio Taglialatela, Giuseppe Donato Mangano, Giovanni Corsello, Salvatore Mangano

Focal visual status epilepticus
Caspar Stephani, Walter Paulus, Niels K. Focke

Tonic status epilepticus in a centenarian woman

José L. Fernández-Torre, Javier Riancho, María Martín-García, Gonzalo Martínez-de las Cuevas, Pilar Bosque-Varela

Epilepsy surgery in the first months of life: a large type IIb focal cortical dysplasia causing neonatal drug-resistant epilepsy
Ingo Borggraefe, Moritz Tacke, Lucia Gerstl, Steffen Leiz, Roland Coras, Ingmar Blümcke, Armin Giese, Birgit Ertl-Wagner, Christian T. Thiel, Soheyl Noachtar, Aurelia Peraud

Berardinelli-Seip syndrome and progressive myoclonus epilepsy
Domenico Serino, Chiara Davico, Nicola Specchio, Carlo Efisio Marras, Franco Fioretto

A Rasmussen encephalitis, autoimmune encephalitis, and mitochondrial disease mimicker: expanding the DNM1L-associated intractable epilepsy and encephalopathy phenotype
Danielle A. Nolan, Baibing Chen, Anne Marie Michon, Emily Salatka, Daniel Arndt

Rasmussen syndrome: absence seizures may be induced by oxcarbazepine
Roberto H. Caraballo, Pedro Cachia, Gabriela Reyes Valenzuela, Agustin Calvo