Publications by authors named "Viviane Bernedo-Paredes"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of photosensitivity during EEG recordings in newly referred adult patients at an Epilepsy Center, despite it being more common in younger populations.
- Researchers reviewed EEGs from 344 adult patients, finding photoparoxysmal responses in only 1.5% of subjects, all of whom were female and had either idiopathic generalized epilepsy or Doose syndrome.
- The findings suggest that while intermittent photic stimulation can trigger typical psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, it is not essential for diagnosing adults with epilepsy, as photosensitivity was rare in this group.
Objective: Dopamine is an endogenous neuromodulator in cortical circuits and the basal ganglia. In animal models of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), seizure threshold is modulated to some extent by dopamine, with D1-receptors having a pro- and D2-receptors an anticonvulsant effect. We aimed to extend our previously reported results on decreased D2/D3 receptor binding in the lateral epileptogenic temporal lobe and to correlate them with demographic and seizure variables to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the underlying involvement of the dopaminergic system in the epileptogenesis of TLE.
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