The Concept of an Epilepsy Brain Bank.

Epilepsy comprises more than 40 clinical syndromes affecting millions of patients and families worldwide. To decode the molecular and pathological framework of epilepsy researchers, need reliable human epilepsy and control brain samples. Brain bank organizations collecting and supplying well-documented clinically and pathophysiologically tissue specimens are important for high-quality neurophysiology and neuropharmacology studies for epilepsy and other neurological diseases.

Experience of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in the Canadian league against epilepsy: A survey describing current practices by neurologists and epileptologists.

Purpose: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are one of the most common differential diagnoses of epilepsy. Our objective is to describe current medical care in Canada and identify patterns of practice and service gaps.

Methods: In 2015, a 36-question survey was sent via email to the 131 members of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy.

Epilepsy and homicide.

Purpose: We report the rare case of a patient with intractable epilepsy and escalating aggression, resulting in murder, who had complete resolution of her seizures and explosive behavior following a right temporal lobectomy.

Patients And Methods: We searched the available literature from 1880 to 2013 for cases of epilepsy being used as a court defense for murder and collected information regarding the final sentencing outcomes. We selected 15 papers with a total of 50 homicides.

Clustering and switching strategies during verbal fluency performance differentiate Alzheimer's disease and healthy aging.

Clustering and switching strategies during phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks as defined by Troyer et al. (1997), Abwender et al. (2001), and Lanting et al.

A male advantage for spatial and object but not verbal working memory using the n-back task.

Sex-related differences have been reported for performance and neural substrates on some working memory measures that carry a high cognitive load, including the popular n-back neuroimaging paradigm. Despite some evidence of a sex effect on the task, the influence of sex on performance represents a potential confound in neuroimaging research. The present study investigated sex-related differences in verbal, spatial, and common object versions of the high cognitive load "n-back" working memory task.

Endocrine therapy is associated with low performance on some estrogen-sensitive cognitive tasks in postmenopausal women with breast cancer.

This study investigated the effects of endocrine therapy (i.e., tamoxifen and anastrozole) on cognitive functioning by comparing 28 postmenopausal women with breast cancer to 37 healthy age-equivalent controls.

Safety and yield of early cessation of AEDs in video-EEG telemetry and outcomes.

Background: Video-electroencephalography (VEEG) telemetry is the simultaneous recording of ictal and interictal EEG pattern and paroxysmal behavior to investigate the nature of paroxysmal events.

Methods: This is a prospective study performed to asses the safety and yield of early discontinuation of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in the telemetry unit. Over a 2.

Epilepsy surgery in the elderly: an unusual case of a 75-year-old man with recurrent status epilepticus.

Background: Epilepsy surgery is increasingly well-supported as an effective treatment for patients with intractable epilepsy. It is most often performed on younger patients and the safety and efficacy of epilepsy surgery in elderly patients are not frequently described.

Case Report: We report a case of a 75-year-old right-handed man who underwent a left fronto-temporal craniotomy for resection of a suprasellar meningioma in 2002.

The female advantage in object location memory is robust to verbalizability and mode of presentation of test stimuli.

This study extends Duff and Hampson's [Duff, S., & Hampson, E. (2001).

A Mozart effect for women on a mental rotations task.

During the past decade, there have been numerous reports of a brief, but statistically significant, improvement in immediate spatial-temporal performance after listening to 10 min. of Mozart's Sonata K.448, known as the "Mozart effect.

Learning, retention and generalization of a mirror tracing skill in Alzheimer's disease.

The present study examined the ability of 12 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 12 age- and education-matched normal control (NC) subjects to learn and retain the visuomotor skills necessary to efficiently trace a pattern (e.g., a 4- or 6-pointed star) seen only in mirror-reversed view.