A six-year longitudinal study of neurocognitive problems in children with epilepsy.

Introduction: This study describes the specific neuropsychological abnormalities among children with epilepsy (CH-E) living in Georgia.

Methods: A cohort of CH-E and children without epilepsy (CH-NoE), aged 6-13 years, admitted to the epilepsy center of the Institute of Neurology and Neuropsychology from 1st January 2010 to 31st December 2015, was selected and investigated with a structured protocol. Neurological/epileptological assessments were made and neuropsychological testing was done on all study subjects.

Focal EEG features and therapeutic response in patients with juvenile absence and myoclonic epilepsy.

Objective: To investigate the characteristics of focal EEG features in patients with juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), and to assess their possible influence on therapeutic response.

Methods: Focal EEG features were prospectively scored in 168 consecutive patients. Ninety-six patients were drug-naïve and 72 patients were already on antiepileptic drugs (AEDs): 38 on adequate medication and 34 on inadequate medication.

The prevalence and treatment gap of epilepsy in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Introduction: Data on the prevalence of epilepsy and the extent of its treatment gap are important for planning health care delivery for people with epilepsy. The prevalence of active epilepsy in Georgia prior to the social and political re-organization in the early 1990s was estimated at around 5.7 per 1000.