Purpose Preliminary data suggest that patients with Dravet Syndrome (DS) have a reduced
heart rate variability (HRV). This seems particularly evident in patients who experienced�…

Angelman syndrome (AS) results from lack of genetic contribution from maternal
chromosome 15q11–13. This region encompasses three GABAA receptor subunit genes�…

The authors studied 10 patients (mean age 15 years 6 months) with localized
developmental gyral disorder detected by MRI. There were two groups of major�…

Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy in Infancy (SMEI) was first described in 198212 and recognized
as a syndrome in 1989. 7 This disorder is characterized by 1) a high familial incidence of�…

Purpose: Neuroimaging procedures are usually unnecessary in benign epilepsy of
childhood with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) but are often performed before a specific�…

PURPOSE: We performed a retrospective study to investigate seizure, EEG, social and
cognitive outcome in adult LGS subjects. METHODS: We retrospectively evaluated 27 LGS�…

In a retrospective study of 30 Down syndrome (DS) patients with epilepsy, we found 6 cases
(20%) with reflex seizures. One patient had benign myoclonic epilepsy of infancy with�…

Objective: Cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome (CFCS) is a rare developmental disorder caused
by upregulated signaling through the RAS-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)�…

PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of autoantibodies in patients with epilepsy and to
find a possible relationship between antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and/or anticardiolipin�…

Purpose: Gamma knife radiosurgery (GK) allows precise and complete destruction of
chosen target structures containing healthy and/or pathologic cells, without significant�…