The role of sleep electroencephalography in patients with new onset epilepsy.

Purpose: An increased propensity for seizures is associated with different stages of the sleep-wake cycle. In this study, we prospectively analyzed patients with new-onset epilepsy and investigated the clinical correlates of the yield obtained from sleep electroencephalography (EEG) recordings in patients with a normal wakefulness EEG.

Methods: All patients admitted to our epilepsy unit due to unprovoked epileptic seizures and not yet treated with antiepileptic drugs were recruited consecutively for the last three years.

Interobserver variability of seizure semiology between two neurologist and caregivers.

Purpose: We aimed to compare the extent of inter-observer variability in the description of seizure semiology between both neurologists and caregivers.

Method: We prospectively investigated 93 consecutive patients monitored over the past 5 years in our video-EEG unit. The videotaped seizures of the patients were reviewed independently by two neurologists who were blind to the clinical data.

Long term follow-up of Parkinson's disease patients with impulse control disorders.

Objective: Impulse control disorders (ICDs) are mainly triggered by dopaminergic therapy in Parkinson's disease (PD). Previously, we failed to identify a relationship between the types of dopaminergic therapy and occurrence of ICDs in 33 PD patients. In this study, we aim to evaluate the outcome of ICD behaviors in the same patient group.