Panayiotopoulos syndrome and diffuse paroxysms as the first EEG manifestation at clinical onset: a study of nine patients.

To present a retrospective study of nine children with Panayiotopoulos syndrome associated with diffuse spikes and waves as the sole EEG manifestation at onset. Charts of children with typical clinical criteria of Panayiotopoulos syndrome, electroclinically followed between February 2000 and February 2012, were reviewed. Among 150 patients who met the electroclinical criteria of Panayiotopoulos syndrome, we identified nine children who presented with the typical clinical manifestations but who, on EEG, only had diffuse paroxysms at onset that continued along the course of the syndrome.

Encephalopathy with status epilepticus during sleep: unusual EEG patterns.

Purpose: To retrospectively analyze the electroclinical characteristics, etiology, treatment, and prognosis of patients with epileptic encephalopathy with status epilepticus during sleep (ESES) with unusual EEG features and to corroborate if this series of patients is part of the ESES syndrome.

Method: Charts of 17 patients with typical clinical manifestations of the ESES syndrome with focal ESES of non-REM sleep at onset and during the focal ESES phase, or bilateral synchronic and asynchronic ESES with a symmetric or asymmetric morphology, continuous or subcontinuous and sometimes multifocal paroxysms with or without slow-wave activity during slow sleep seen between 2000 and 2012 were analyzed.

Results: Mean patient follow-up from onset was 7.

Epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures: six patients treated with bromide.

Purpose: We present six patients with epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures (EIMFS) and provide a comprehensive evaluation of potassium bromide therapy.

Method: Between February 1, 2007 and July 31, 2012, six patients who met the diagnostic criteria of EIMFS were treated with potassium bromide. Potassium bromide was added to other antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in doses ranging from 30 to 80 mg/kg/day.

Compositional heterogeneity reflects partial dehydration in three-dimensional crystals of bacteriorhodopsin.

Absorption, fluorescence and excitation spectra of three-dimensional bacteriorhodopsin crystals harvested from a lipidic cubic phase are presented. The combination of the spectroscopic experiments performed at room temperature, controlled pH and full external hydration reveals the presence of three distinct protein species. Besides the well-known form observed in purple membrane, we find two other species with a relative contribution of up to 30%.

[Insects associated with flowers of weeds of the Botanical Garden of Santiago de Cuba, with emphasis on Hymenoptera].

The insect visitors of flowers in nine weeds species were studied in the Botanical Garden of Santiago de Cuba, Eastern Cuba, during 1993 (March-June, spring season) and 1994 (January-March, end of winter and beginning of spring season). About 50 hours of collecting efforts were made at three times (0900-0930 hr in 1993; 0900-0930 hr, 1200-1230 hr and 1500-1530 hr in 1994). More than 140 species of at least 37 families were found; Hymenoptera dominated (with more than a half of specimens), followed by Diptera, Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.