Clinical commentaries

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

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Progressive myoclonic epilepsy: myoclonic epilepsy and ataxia due to KCNC1 mutation (MEAK): a case report and review of the literature
Niravkumar Barot, Megan Margiotta, Maromi Nei, Christopher Skidmore

Volume 22, issue 4, August 2020

Lingual epilepsia partialis continua: a detailed video-EEG and neuroimaging study
José L. Fernández-Torre, Enrique Marco de Lucas, Sara Urdiales-Sánchez, Gema Fernández-Lozano, Francisco Martínez-Dubarbie, Miguel A. Hernández-Hernández

A de novo GABRB2 variant associated with myoclonic status epilepticus and rhythmic high-amplitude delta with superimposed (poly) spikes (RHADS)

Aiko Nishikawa, Yui Otani, Susumu Ito, Satoru Nagata, Mutsuki Shiota, Jun-ichi Takanashi, Mitsuko Nakashima, Hirotomo Saitsu, Naomichi Matsumoto, Hirokazu Oguni

EEG source estimation in a rare patient with cold-induced reflex epilepsy

Ye Ren, Xiaoli Li, Fengyu Cong, Shuying Xiao, Qin Zhang, Ting Ao, Jun Zhang, Yuping Wang, Tapani Ristaniemi, Ruihua Zhang

Tooth-brushing epilepsy: an SEEG study and surgical treatment

Oscar Martinez, María Sol Pacha, María Laura De Francesco, Luis Ariel Miquelini, Federico Sánchez González

Epidiolex-induced skin rash
Jaysingh Singh, Marika-Foteni Antimisiaris

Neurocysticercosis and pharmacoresistant epilepsy: possible role of calcified lesions in epileptogenesis
Marcelo Freitas Schmid, Sandra Regina Perosa, Selvin Zacarias Reyes-Garcia, Marlene Mayzs Odreman, Ana Carolina Zetehaku, Nathalia Stela Visona Figueiredo, Jeana Torres Corso Duarte, Mirian Salvadori Bittar Guaranha, Maria da Graça Naffah Mazacoratti, Henrique Carrete Jr, Ricardo Silva Centeno, Elza Márcia Targas Yacubian

Biallelic SZT2 variants in a child with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
Ryosuke Tanaka, Satoru Takahashi, Mami Kuroda, Ryo Takeguchi, Nao Suzuki, Yoshio Makita, Yoko Narumi-Kishimoto, Tadashi Kaname

Volume 22, issue 3, June 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

Volume 22, issue 2, April 2020

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

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

Transient epileptic amnesia diagnosed using long-term electroencephalography

Camilla Dyremose Jensen, Thomas Krøigård, Christoph Patrick Beier

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

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

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

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

Volume 22, issue 1, February 2020

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

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

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

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

Volume 21, issue 6, December 2019

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

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

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

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

Dènahin Hinnoutondji Toffa, Raluca Pana, Dang Khoa Nguyen

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

Volume 21, issue 5, October 2019

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

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

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

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

Eszter Nagy, Katalin Hollody

Ictal kissing in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy

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

Self-stimulation in an adult misdiagnosed with focal epilepsy

Pedro Correia, Elizabeth Hartl, Soheyl Noachtar

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

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

Volume 21, issue 4, August 2019

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

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

Volume 21, issue 3, June 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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