Epilepsy is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting approximately 1% of the world's population. Drug-resistant focal epilepsies are potentially surgically remediable. Although …
M Szaflarski - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
Social factors have been identified as key drivers of epilepsy care, outcomes, and disparities, but there is a limited understanding of what these factors are and how they …
AK Chan, RA McGovern, LT Brown, JP Sheehy… - JAMA …, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance African American individuals experience barriers to accessing many types of health care in the United States, resulting in substantial health care disparities. To improve …
M Quigg, C Harden - Journal of neurosurgery, 2014 - thejns.org
Minimally invasive surgical techniques for the treatment of medically intractable epilepsy, which have been developed by neurosurgeons and epileptologists almost simultaneously …
CC Tebo, AI Evins, PJ Christos, J Kwon… - Journal of …, 2014 - thejns.org
Object Surgical interventions for medically refractory epilepsy are effective in selected patients, but they are underutilized. There remains a lack of pooled data on complication …
E Trinka, F Brigo - Current opinion in neurology, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Antiepileptogenesis in humans: disappointing clinical eviden... : Current Opinion in Neurology Antiepileptogenesis in humans: disappointing clinical evidence and ways to move forward …
C Helmstaedter, TW May, M Von Lehe… - European journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose In the epilepsy community, there is talk that the number of classical patients with early onset temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and A mmon's horn sclerosis …
Objectives: To examine the applicability of applying an online tool to determine the appropriateness of referral for an epilepsy surgical evaluation and to determine whether …
The treatment of epilepsy involves 4 modalities: medications, neurostimulation, diet, and surgery. The proportion of medically refractory patients remains around 30%, despite new …