This 22-year-old woman presented for evaluation of syncope. Several weeks previously, she was watching the end of the movie Hannibal when Dr. Lecter was slicing pieces of the exposed brain of a ...

The baseline clinical characteristics are shown in Table I. Neurologists referred 64 patients, but nine were excluded from the study by exclusion criteria. The study included 55 consecutive patients: ...

Recurrent seizures are debilitating and can sometimes, be fatal. The onset and presentation of seizures vary significantly among epilepsy patients. Of more than 25 categories of seizure presentations ...

Cruella DeVil, Darth Vader and that mean kid on “Toy Story” are all pretty scary, but is there any doubt that Hannibal Lecter would eat them alive? There is not. This spring, while taking in the end ...

ELECTRIC convulsive therapy has been used for the last three years at the Foxborough State Hospital and has become the chief form of physical therapy in the treatment of psychoses of psychogenic ...

From "Treatment of Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Adults" Epilepsy Currents 16.1 January/February 2016. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

IN the long-term care of children with convulsive disorders we have become increasingly aware of the frequent occurrence of a significant degree of anemia in those who have breath-holding spells. Such ...

Convulsions are rapid, involuntary muscle contractions that cause uncontrollable shaking and limb movement. Convulsions are common in epileptic seizures but can also result from infections, fever, and ...