Publications by authors named "Harin Yang"
Purpose: We evaluated long-term seizure outcomes of antiseizure medications (ASMs) and risk factors for drug resistance in patients with adult-onset epilepsy associated with cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM).
Materials And Methods: This retrospective observational study included patients newly diagnosed with adult-onset focal epilepsy associated with CCM. Patients received individualized treatments with ASMs.
Background: Little is known regarding the effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on sleep misperception in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Methods: Sleep state perception was measured by subtracting the objective total sleep time from the subjective sleep duration. Sleep underestimation and overestimation were defined as ± 60 minutes sleep perception.
Purpose: This study assessed whether patients with epilepsy have a higher level of impulsivity than healthy controls, and compared impulsivity among patients with different subtypes of epilepsy.
Methods: The multicenter study included 108 subjects with epilepsy and 56 healthy volunteers. Subjects were evaluated by the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 (BIS-11) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9, with BIS-11 scores analyzed as both dichotomized and continuous variables.
Background And Purpose: To identify sex differences in daytime sleepiness associated with apnea severity and periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) in subjects with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Methods: This study used the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI) in logistic regression analyses with interaction terms. Severe OSA, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), and PLMS were defined as an apnea-hypopnea index of ≥30, an ESS score of ≥11, and a periodic limb movements index of >15, respectively.
Purpose: Little is known regarding the prevalence of sleep state misperception and the factors related to this in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Methods: This retrospective study included patients with OSA defined by an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of ≥ 5 and used the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), the Epworth sleepiness scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7. Underestimation and overestimation of sleep state perception were defined as < 80% and > 120%, respectively, of the ratio between subjective and objective total sleep time.
Purpose: We investigated the moderating effect of sleep disturbance on the association between seizure recurrence and emotional instability in patients with epilepsy, independent of psychological distress.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Patients completed the short form of the Affective Lability Scale (ALS-18), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7).
Difficulties obtaining private insurance reported by persons with epilepsy in Korea.
Epilepsy Behav
October 2021
Purpose: This study determined the proportion of persons with epilepsy (PWE) that possessed insurance policies and the difficulties they experienced in trying to obtain insurance in South Korea.
Methods: Persons with epilepsy and healthy control subjects were asked to complete a questionnaire in which they were asked if they had experienced problems obtaining four types of insurance, including life, medical indemnity, critical illness, and motor insurance. Insurance policies obtained before diagnosis of epilepsy were excluded in the analysis.
Background: We compared the prevalence of periodic leg movements during sleep (PLMS) according to two different scoring rules of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) 2012 and World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) 2016 and determined their association with depressed mood in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Methods: PLMS, defined as a periodic leg movements index of >15, were diagnosed on a diagnostic and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) titration polysomnography using the AASM 2012 and WASM 2016 rules. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) were used, and multiple regression analyses were performed.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of cognitive training programs on the progression of dementia in patients with early stage Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD) at the day care center.
Methods: From January 2015 to December 2018, a total of 119 patients with early ADD were evaluated. All subjects were classified into two groups according to participate in cognitive training program in addition to usual standard clinical care.
Rationale: Computed tomography plays a key role in the initial evaluation of suspected acute stroke by ruling out the possibility of hemorrhage before thrombolysis. Recently, many reports have described cases of symptomatic microbleeds, and there may also have been a case of computed tomography- negative intracerebral hemorrhage.
Patient Concerns: A 70-year-old female patient who had a history of lacunar infarction and severe small vessel disease developed dysarthria.