Improvement of intractable childhood epilepsy following acute viral infection.

In this study, we report 11 patients with intractable childhood epilepsy that improved following acute viral infection. The patients were 8 boys and 3 girls. Six of the 11 children were diagnosed as West syndrome (5 of the symptomatic type and 1 of the cryptogenic type).

Event-related potentials in response to 3-D auditory stimuli.

To evaluate auditory spatial cognitive function, age correlations for event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to auditory stimuli with a Doppler effect were studied in normal children. A sound with a Doppler effect is perceived as a moving audio image. A total of 99 normal subjects (age range, 4-21 years) were tested.

[A case of rhabdomyolysis associated with Salmonella encephalopathy].

We report a case of severe rhabdomyolysis associated with Salmonella encephalopathy. A 3-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of status convulsives and unconsciousness. She was diagnosed as having Salmonella encephalopathy with rhabdmyolysis, and was treated by mild hypothermia and mechanical ventilation.

Brain evoked potentials of 3-D auditory stimuli.

Background: For evaluation of spatial cognitive function, we studied the brain evoked potentials (EP) of 3-D auditory stimuli in regard to the change of latencies in normal subjects aged 1-21 years and compared them with patients who have mental retardation (MR).

Methods: A total of 144 normal subjects and 67 patients with MR were tested. The EP were elicited by 1000 Hz fixed and enlarged tones with Doppler effect randomly presented.