Volume 23, issue 6, December 2021

ILAE Psychology Task Force Report

Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of psychological treatment on health-related quality of life in people with epilepsy: an update by the ILAE Psychology Task Force, highlighting methodological changes (p.803-11)
Rosa Michaelis, Venus Tang, Sarah J. Nevitt, Janelle L. Wagner, Avani C. Modi, W. Curt LaFrance Jr, Laura H. Goldstein, Milena Gandy, Rebecca Bresnahan, Kette Valente, Kirsten A. Donald, Markus Reuber
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Review article

Understanding the landscape of electrophysiology services for children in sub-Saharan Africa (p.812-22)
Veena Kander, Joanne Hardman, Jo M. Wilmshurst
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Original articles

MiRNA-29a serves as a promising diagnostic biomarker in children with temporal lobe epilepsy and regulates seizure-induced cell death and inflammation in hippocampal neurons (p.823-32)
Yifei Wu, Yanrui Zhang, Shuxia Zhu, Chunmei Tian, Yanyan Zhang
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Pentobarbital coma therapy for super-refractory status epilepticus and in-hospital mortality: an observational study (p.833-42)
Seungyon Koh, Tae-Joon Kim, Tae-Sung Lim, Jin Soo Lee, Byung Gon Kim, Sun Ah Park, Kyoon Huh, Jun Young Choi
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OCLN gene variants identified in three patients with severe neurodevelopmental disorder associated with epilepsy, intellectual disability and malformation of cortical development (p.843-53)
Tulay Oncu Oner, Aycan Unalp, Semra Hiz, Erhan Bayram, Ismail Kaytan, Sultan Cingoz
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Effectiveness and safety of perampanel in Chinese paediatric patients (2-14 years) with refractory epilepsy: a retrospective, observational study (p.854-64)
Rui Qu, Yuanyuan Dai, Xuqin Chen, Rui Li, Min Liu, Yali Zhu
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Epilepsy features in ARID1B-related Coffin-Siris syndrome (p.865-74)
Jacopo Proietti, Elisabetta Amadori, Pasquale Striano, Emilia Ricci, Duccio Maria Cordelli, Cristina Bana, Robertino Dilena, Elena Gardella, Jens Erik Klint Nielsen, Francesco Pisani, Tommaso Lo Barco, Elena Fiorini, Elena Fontana, Francesca Darra, Bernardo Dalla Bernardina, Gaetano Cantalupo
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Elective inpatient video-EEG monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic (p.875-8)
Nikoli D. Brown, Mohammad Dastjerdi, Paul Herrmann, Joshua Loeb, Richard Tang-Wai, Jennifer Veltman, Travis E. Losey
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Seizures in autoimmune encephalitis: specific features based on a systematic comparative study (p.879-92)
Louis Cousyn, Virginie Lambrecq, Marion Houot, Natalia Shor, Vi-Huong Nguyen-Michel, Valerio Frazzini, Sophie Dupont, Sophie Demeret, Vincent Navarro
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Vortioxetine suppresses epileptiform activity and cognition deficits in a chronic PTZ-induced kindling rat model (p.893-900)
Mehmet Taskiran, Gokhan Unal
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Clinical commentaries

Room tilt illusion in epilepsy (p.901-5)
Deema Fattal, Anne-Sophie Wattiez, Erik St Louis, Karina Gonzalez-Otarula, Rup Sainju
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Exacerbation of eyelid myoclonia in patients with epilepsy and eyelid myoclonia receiving cannabidiol (p.906-10)
Ifrah Zawar, Linfa Franic, Prakash Kotagal, Elia Pestana Knight
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Intracortical focal non-convulsive status epilepticus causing cerebral hypoxia and intracranial hypertension (p.911-6)
José L. Fernández-Torre, Miguel A. Hernández-Hernández, David Mato-Mañas, Enrique Marco de Lucas, Elsa Gómez-Ruiz, Rubén Martín-Láez
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Eyelid myoclonia with absences related to epileptic negative myoclonus (p.917-21)
Atsuro Daida, Mina Yokoyama, Kaoru Yamamoto, Daisuke Hasegawa, Isao Kusakawa, Chuan-Yu Wang, Masaaki Ogihara
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Sexual orgasm as a trigger for reflex epilepsy (p.923-6)
Ana Azevedo, Rita Rodrigues, Bárbara Teixeira, Peter Grebe
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Atypical presentation of sunflower epilepsy featuring an EEG pattern of continuous spike waves during slow-wave sleep (p.927-32)
Esmeralda Nava, Andrea Capone Mori, Pasquale Striano, Georgia Ramantani
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Case vignettes

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of anterior nucleus thalami (ANT) in female epilepsy patients during pregnancy and delivery: experience from two cases (p.933-6)
Patrick M. House, Anja Herzer, Irene Lorenzi, Philipp Niedernhöfer, Berthold Voges, Stefan Stodieck, Manfred Westphal, Miriam Schaper, Johannes A. Koeppen, Wolfgang Hamel
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Repetitive focal seizures evolving into ictal asystole: a case report with 18 seizures during video-EEG monitoring (p.937-9)
Anna Stefánsdóttir, Anne Sabers, Annette Sidaros, György Rásonyi, Noémi Becser Andersen, Marius Kløvgaard
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Encephalocele-associated temporal lobe epilepsy and skull fibrous dysplasia: a report of two cases (p.940-3)
Kelsey M. Smith, Benjamin C. Cox, Ojore O. Jones, Amy L. Kotsenas, Jamie J. Van Gompel, David B. Burkholder, Lily C. Wong-Kisiel
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Auditory and emotion-sensitive jerks in a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (p.944-6)
Ruchika Tandon, Varsha Ambwani
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The epilepsy-movement disorder phenotypic spectrum and phenytoin-induced dyskinesia associated with GABRB3 pathogenic variants (p.947-50)
Amaar Marefi, Myriam Srour
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Super-refractory status epilepticus related to COVID-19 in a paediatric patientwith PRRT2 mutation (p.951-3)
Diane Vergara, Carla Rubilar, Scarlet Witting, Mónica Troncoso, Roberto Caraballo
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Early diagnosis and experimental treatment with fenfluramine via the Investigational New Drug mechanism in a boy with Dravet syndrome and recurrent status epilepticus (p.954-6)
Sara Trowbridge, Annapurna Poduri, Heather Olson
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Subtotal hemispherotomy for late-onset spasms after anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-positive acute haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis (p.957-60)
Naohiro Yamamoto, Ichiro Kuki, Shizuka Nagase, Takeshi Inoue, Megumi Nukui, Shin Okazaki, Noritsugu Kunihiro, Takehiro Uda, Masataka Fukuoka, Jun Kubota, Shin-Ichiro Hamano, Hiroshi Sakuma, Hisashi Kawawaki
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Multimedia teaching material

Asymmetric eye movement artifacts on EEG, secondary to unilateral retinal detachment in patients with focal epilepsy (p.961-2)
Karlo Toljan, Elia Pestana-Knight, Ahsan NV Moosa
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Acknowledgements

List of reviewers for manuscripts published in 2021 (p.963-5)

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