Clinical commentaries
Clinical Commentaries are short reports of case studies that reflect truly novel findings.
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Musicogenic epilepsy with ictal asystole: a video-EEG case report
Jeanne Benoit, Florence Martin, Pierre Thomas
Paroxysmal tonic upgaze in a child with SCN8A-related encephalopathy
Roberta Solazzi, Barbara Castellotti, Laura Canafoglia, Giuliana Messina, Stefania Magri, Elena Freri, Francesca Ragona, Silvana Franceschetti, Jacopo C. Di Francesco, Cinzia Gellera, Tiziana Granata
Bathing epilepsy: a video case report
Alberto M. Cappellari, Chiara Bulgaro, Gaia Bruschi, Marco Papa
Efficacy of lacosamide in neonatal-onset super-refractory status epilepticus: a case report
Veronica Bertozzi, Claudia M. Bonardi, Gaia Biscalchin, Clarissa Tona, Angela Amigoni, Stefano Sartori
Multimodal approach in the pre-surgical evaluation of focal epilepsy surgery candidates: how far are we from a non-invasive ESI-based “sourcectomy”?
Giulia Nobile, Alessandro Consales, Domenico Tortora, Mattia Pacetti, Francesca Gianno, Dario Arnaldi, Silvia Morbelli, Margherita Mancardi, Ivana Sartori, Massimo Cossu, Lino Nobili, Matteo Cataldi
Volume 23, issue 3, June 2021
Inferior parietal lobule gyrations in refractory epilepsy
Javeria Nooraine, Seetharam Raghavendra
Super-refractory status epilepticus in autoimmune encephalitis treated with interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, anakinra
Chun-ho Choi, Sze-ho Ma, Karen KY. Ma, Howan Leung, Vincent CT. Mok
Sotos syndrome: a pitfall in the presurgical workup of temporal lobe epilepsy
Linda Bättig, Richard Rosch, Katharina Steindl, Sarah Elisabeth Bürki, Georgia Ramantani
Volume 23, issue 2, April 2021
Successful treatment of epilepsia partialis continua with perampanel: two pediatric cases
Ali Mir, Montaha Almudhry, Fouad Al-Ghamdi, Shahid Bashir
Cryptogenic new-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) following blood transfusion in a patient with severe anemia
Connie K. Wu, Collin J. Culbertson, Erica L. Von Stein, Sandeep Walia, Prashanth Krishnamohan, Zachary D. Threlkeld
Epilepsy phenotypes associated with MAP1B-related brain malformations
Ravindra Arya, Christine Spaeth, Wenying Zhang
Chapeau de gendarme in a toddler points to focal epilepsy originating from the subcentral gyrus
Christina T. Rüsch, Bigna K. Bölsterli, Carlotta Carosio, Georgia Ramantani
Mild malformation of cortical development with oligodendroglial hyperplasia and epilepsy (MOGHE): a widespread disease with an apparently focal epilepsy
Raghavendra Seetharam, Javeria Nooraine, Radhika Mhatre, Jaychandran Ramachandran, Rajesh B. Iyer, Anita Mahadevan
Pharmacokinetic data on brivaracetam, lacosamide and perampanel during pregnancy and lactation
Cecilie Johannessen Landmark, Lene Rektorli, Margrete Larsen Burns, Eline Revdal, Svein I. Johannessen, Eylert Brodtkorb
Rage and aggressive behaviour in frontal lobe epilepsy: description of a case and review of the mechanisms of aggressive behaviour in epilepsy and dementia
Roberta Di Giacomo, Giuseppe Didato, Vincenzo Belcastro, Francesco Deleo, Chiara Pastori, Dario Arnaldi, Giuseppa Jolanda Rosa, Flavio Villani
Temporal-parietal-occipital epilepsy in GEFS+ associated with SCN1A mutation
Antonella Riva, Antonietta Coppola, Ganna Balagura, Marcello Scala, Michele Iacomino, Francesca Marchese, Elisabetta Amadori, Simona Lattanzi, Roberta Meo, Salvatore Striano, Vincenzo Salpietro, Federico Zara, Carlo Minetti, Pasquale Striano, Leonilda Bilo
Volume 23, issue 1, February 2021
Television-induced electronegative photoparoxysmal response: an extratemporal seizure mimic?
Gabriel Calado, Nimit Desai, Dorothee Kasteleijn, William O. Tatum
Photoparoxysmal response in ADCK3 autosomal recessive ataxia: a case report and literature review
Sara Uccella, Livia Pisciotta, Mariasavina Severino, Enrico Bertini, Thea Giacomini, Ginevra Zanni, Giulia Prato, Elisa De Grandis, Lino Nobili, Maria Margherita Mancardi
Clinical seizure manifestations in the absence of synaptic connections
Emma Macdonald-Laurs, Catherine A. Bailey, Sarah Barton, Joseph Yuan-Mou Yang, Simone Mandelstam, Duncan Macgregor, Paul J. Lockhart, Richard J. Leventer, Wirginia J. Maixner, A. Simon Harvey
Clinical management of voice and breathing problems in two patients with vagus nerve stimulation therapy
Sonja Alantie, Tanja Makkonen, Satu Hietala, Jukka Peltola
STXBP1 germline mutation and focal cortical dysplasia
Artem Sharkov, Olivier Dulac, Svetlana Gataullina
Clinical experience of abrupt discontinuation of perampanel: a case series
Marko Blickhan, Tassanai Intravooth, Anke. M. Staack, Reinhold Kornmeier, Patricia Mahn, Matthias Schneider, Jakob Stockinger, Matthias Bacher, Christoph Kurth, Bernhard J. Steinhoff
Volume 22, issue 6, December 2020
Anatomical electroclinical correlations during an SEEG-recorded seizure with autoscopic hallucination
Davide Fonti, Stanislas Lagarde, Julia Scholly, Anne Lépine, Didier Scavarada, Monica Puligheddu, Aileen McGonigal, Fabrice Bartolomei
Improved seizure burden and cognitive performance in a child treated with responsive neurostimulation (RNS) following febrile infection related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES)
Liana Theroux, Yash Shah, Yael Cukier, Shaun Rodgers, Shefali Karkare, David Bonda, Sanjeev Kothare
Vomiting and retching as presenting signs of focal epilepsy in children
Marion Depermentier, Nathalie Mercier, Roberto Santalucia, Renaud Lhommel, Marie-Cécile Nassogne, Maria Roberta Cilio
Benign familial infantile epilepsy associated with KCNQ3 mutation: a rare occurrence or an underestimated event?
Rosaria Nardello, Giuseppe Donato Mangano, Francesco Miceli, Antonina Fontana, Ettore Piro, Vincenzo Salpietro
Complex sleep-disordered breathing after vagus nerve stimulation: broadening the spectrum of adverse events of special interest
Miguel Oliveira Santos, Carla Bentes, Tiago Teodoro, Susana Moreira, Marta Marques, Diogo Tomé, Ana Rita Peralta
A case series of super-refractory status epilepticus successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy
Hui Jan Tan, Tze Yuan Tee, Mazlina Husin, Ching Soong Khoo, Luke Sy-Cherng Woon
Co-existence of idiopathic generalized and focal epilepsy suggested by simultaneous EEG-fMRI: a case report
Tomohiro Yamazoe, François Dubeau, Nicolás von Ellenrieder, Natalja Zazubovits, Jean Gotman
Encephalopathy related to status epilepticus during sleep due to a de novo KCNA1 variant in the Kv-specific Pro-Val-Pro motif: phenotypic description and remarkable electroclinical response to ACTH
Angelo Russo, Giuseppe Gobbi, Antonella Pini, Rikke Steensbjerre Møller, Guido Rubboli
Volume 22, issue 5, October 2020
Efficacy of rituximab on seizure control and cognitive symptoms in leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1) limbic encephalitis: a high-density electroencephalography case study
Marta Cheli, Alessandro Dinoto, Valentina Tommasini, Miloš Ajčević, Giulio Stella, Mauro Catalan, David Stokelj, Arianna Sartori, Paolo Manganotti
Response to lacosamide monotherapy in a patient with medically refractory Jeavons syndrome: a case report and review of the literature
Ifrah Zawar, Linda Franic, Elia Pestana Knight
When the first seizure can be the last: ventricular fibrillation following a new-onset seizure
Anver Sethwala, Paul Sparks, Piero Perucca
Description of a peculiar alternating ictal electroclinical pattern in a young boy with a novel SPATA5 mutation
Caterina Zanus, Paola Costa, Flavio Faletra, Luciana Musante, Angelo Russo, Luisa Grazian, Marco Carrozzi
Seizures triggered by eating: a rare form of reflex epilepsy
Nirosen Vijiaratnam, Christine Girges, Jacqueline Idaszak, Udaya Seneviratne
Frequent epileptic apnoea in a patient with Pitt-Hopkins syndrome
Hiroyuki Yamada, Akiko Tamasaki, Masayoshi Oguri, Ikumi Hori, Shinji Saitoh, Yoshihiro Maegaki
Hippocampal deep brain stimulation: a therapeutic option in patients with extensive bilateral periventricular nodular heterotopia: a case report
Arthur Cukiert, Cristine Mella Cukiert, Jose Augusto Burattini, Pedro Paulo Mariani
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
Tooth-brushing epilepsy: an SEEG study and surgical treatment
Oscar Martinez, María Sol Pacha, María Laura De Francesco, Luis Ariel Miquelini, Federico Sánchez González
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
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
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
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
Volume 22, issue 3, June 2020
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
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
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