Clinical commentaries
Clinical Commentaries are short reports of case studies that reflect truly novel findings.
Volume 21, issue 5, October 2019
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
Perampanel-induced hair curling in a patient with epilepsy associated with Pitt Hopkins syndrome
Yamile Calle-Lopez, Prakash Kotagal, Elia Pestana Knight
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
Paroxysmal non-epileptic events in infancy: five cases with typical features
Eszter Nagy, Katalin Hollody
Stimulus-induced rhythmic, periodic ictal discharges during funduscopic examination in a patient with status epilepticus
Wei-Pin Hong, Tsang-Shan Chen, Chin-Wei Huang
Ictal kissing in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy
António Martins de Campos, Helena Rocha, José Manuel Dias da Costa, Ricardo Rego
Electrical stimulation of the cingulate elicits involuntary singing
Krzysztof Bujarski, Cathy Martin, Barbara Jobst, David Roberts, Andy Connolly
Self-stimulation in an adult misdiagnosed with focal epilepsy
Pedro Correia, Elizabeth Hartl, Soheyl Noachtar
Widespread frontal lobe cortical dysplasia or partial hemimegalencephaly: a continuum of the spectrum
Emilija Cvetkovska, Igor Kuzmanovski, Bojan Boskovski, Marija Babunovska, Kiteva Gordana Trencevska
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
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
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
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
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
An embarrassing aura
Laura Lacazette, Olivier Boucher, Ismail Mohamed, Alain Bouthillier, Dang Khoa Nguyen
Abdominal epilepsia partialis continua in neurocysticercosis
Ajay Asranna, Sachin Sureshbabu, Gaurav Mittal, Sudhir Peter, Shobhana Chindripu, Leena Saini
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
Focal visual status epilepticus
Caspar Stephani, Walter Paulus, Niels K. Focke
Rasmussen syndrome: absence seizures may be induced by oxcarbazepine
Roberto H. Caraballo, Pedro Cachia, Gabriela Reyes Valenzuela, Agustin Calvo
Tonic status epilepticus in a centenarian woman
José L. Fernández-Torre, Javier Riancho, María Martín-García, Gonzalo Martínez-de las Cuevas, Pilar Bosque-Varela
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
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
Absence status induced by lacosamide adjunctive therapy
Charles Ákos Szabó, Lola C. Morgan, Suzanne Sonnenberg, Kameel M. Karkar
Volume 20, issue 6, December 2018
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
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
KCNQ2 mutation in an infant with encephalopathy of infancy with migrating focal seizures
Alexander Freibauer, Kevin Jones
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
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
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
Volume 20, issue 5, October 2018
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
Genetic (idiopathic) generalized epilepsy with occipital semiology
Pablo Gómez-Porro, Angel Aledo Serrano, Rafael Toledano, Irene García-Morales, Antonio Gil-Nagel
Stimulation-induced ictal vocalisation of left frontal lobe origin
Leyla Baysal-Kirac, Elisabeth Hartl, Christian Vollmar, Katharina Ernst, Hannah Lohr, Soheyl Noachtar
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
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
Diaper changing-induced reflex seizures in CDKL5-related epilepsy
Roberta Solazzi, Elena Fiorini, Elena Parrini, Francesca Darra, Bernardo Dalla Bernardina, Gaetano Cantalupo
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
Volume 20, issue 4, August 2018
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 child with hyperekplexia and epileptic myoclonus
Lara Wadi, Yasser Medlej, Makram Obeid
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
A triad of infantile spasms, nystagmus and a focal tonic seizure
Stephanie Garcia Tarodo, Thu Nguyen, Emmanuelle Ranza, Serge Vulliémoz, Christian M. Korff
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
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