Publications by authors named "Anna Mammi"
Objective: Functional seizures (FS) are brief, involuntary changes in behaviour or consciousness, distinct from epileptic seizures, potentially associated with psychological dissociation. Binge eating disorder (BED) was linked to psychological and somatic dissociation also. However, any connection between FS and BED is insufficiently explored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Epileptic seizures occurring in late adulthood often remain of unknown origin. Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a cerebral small vessel disease characterized by intracerebral hemorrhage, microhemorrhage and superficial siderosis, occurring mostly in elderly. This observational case-control study aimed to assess the occurrence of CAA in patients experiencing their first seizure in late adulthood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The GLA c.337T > C (p.Phe113Leu) is a known pathogenic variant associated to late-onset Fabry disease phenotype with predominant cardiac manifestations.
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- Identifying cases of epileptic seizures and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures from healthy subjects using standard EEG analysis is difficult, as EEGs can appear normal in both conditions.
- The study proposes a deep learning approach that automatically classifies three groups: patients with epileptic seizures (ES), patients with non-epileptic psychogenic seizures (PNES), and healthy control subjects (CS), using low-density interictal scalp EEG recordings.
- By applying empirical mode decomposition and a customized convolutional neural network (CNN) to analyze EEG segments, the approach achieved an impressive classification accuracy of 85.7%, indicating its potential to assist clinicians in challenging diagnostic situations.
Background: Epilepsy is a common comorbidity of cerebrovascular disease and an increasing socioeconomic burden.
Objective: We aimed to provide an updated comprehensive review on the state of the art about seizures and epilepsy in stroke, cerebral haemorrhage, and leukoaraiosis.
Methods: We selected English-written articles on epilepsy, stroke, and small vessel disease up until December 2021.
Background: Identifying late epileptic seizures (LS) following cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) can be useful for prognosis and management. We systematically reviewed the literature to identify risk factors for LS due to CVT.
Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, Scholar, and Scopus databases (May 2021) to identify studies reporting data on prevalence and risk factors for CVT-LS.
Psychiatric and behavioural side effects are common, undesirable effects associated with antiseizure medication use. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common focal epilepsy in adults and it is frequently associated with drug resistance. Patients with intractable epilepsy are more likely to have psychiatric and behavioural side effects when taking antiseizure medications and seem to be at higher risk for psychiatric comorbidities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Status epilepticus (SE) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. This multicenter retrospective cohort study aims to identify the factors associated with the occurrence of SE and the predictors of its recurrence in patients with adult-onset seizures.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data of 1115 patients with seizure onset>18 years, observed from 1983 to 2020 in 7 Italian Centers (median follow-up 2.
Article Synopsis
- - Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), or Janz syndrome, is a genetic form of epilepsy that makes up about 10% of all cases and has a significant portion of patients (around 30%) whose seizures resist standard anti-seizure medications.
- - Although valproate (VPA) is a common first-choice treatment, levetiracetam (LEV) is preferred for women of childbearing age, and alternative medications are recommended based on the specific seizure types experienced.
- - For patients with ongoing seizures, different medications like lamotrigine and clonazepam are suggested depending on the kind of seizures, and VPA remains an option for women when other treatments fail, with proper precautions. *
Objective: Here we explored whether children with ADHD have a deficit in relational reasoning, a skill subtending the acquisition of many cognitive abilities and social rules.
Method: We analyzed the performance of a group of children with ADHD during a transitive inference task, a task requiring first to learn the reciprocal relationship between adjacent items of a rank ordered series (e.g.