What's the difference between epilepsy and epileptiform?
Epilepsy
Definition:
(n.) The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(2) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(3) The fringe of the seizure ("borderland of epilepsy") is briefly delineated.
(4) A total of 1,233 patients with active epilepsy were identified.
(5) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
(6) Experimental photogenic epilepsy attained by creating GPIE in the EGB with the aid of TT, is proposed as a model for studying the mechanism of epileptogenesis and testing the efficacy of anticonvulsive drugs.
(7) Skeletal muscle mtDNA of three patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, characterized clinically by myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber (MERRF) syndrome, has been sequenced to determine the underlying molecular defect(s).
(8) Although an unequivocal decision is not possible from existing knowledge, psychomotor or complex partial seizures of temporal lobe epilepsy would be the most tenable diagnosis.
(9) The high positivity ELISA rates for cysticercosis in the CSF and in the patients serum with epilepsy indicate that neurocysticercosis is an important seizure cause in Londrina, PR.
(10) Ectopias of grey matter are recognised foci of epilepsy, but from an epileptological and a clinical viewpoint little attention has been given to these disorders.
(11) We hypothesize that hypofunction of this inhibitory neuron causes overexcitation in the main excitatory pathway which could play a role in epilepsy.
(12) For the purpose of contributing methodologically to experimental research on epilepsy, we investigated whether a difference exists in kindling development between acute and chronic preparations using identical species of animals, kindled brain tissues, stimulus intervals, and intensities.
(13) Management of these patients was difficult and emphasizes the need for specialist expertise for patients with epilepsy and apparent epilepsy.
(14) The medical records of 27 children admitted to the MINCEP Epilepsy Program for evaluation of intractable epilepsy but later shown to have nonepileptic events by EEG with simultaneous video monitoring were reviewed.
(15) Although maternal ingestion of antiepileptic drugs is strongly suspected of causing congenital defects, particularly oral clefts, the effect of epilepsy itself or a combined effect of drug intake and epilepsy have not been excluded as etiological factors.
(16) Bilateral temporal epilepsies involving the limbic system on the one hand, bilateral frontal epilepsies on the other one, and P.M. status which may be paralleled, make these patients more susceptible to acute mental confusions, to acute thymic disorders, to delirious attacks.
(17) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(18) The risk of epilepsy after febrile convulsions is much less than reported in many hospital studies, and if febrile convulsions cause brain damage that leads to later epilepsy this is a rare occurrence.
(19) The results of neuropsychological investigations of 40 patients with severe epilepsy and behaviour disturbances treated by stereotactic methods are presented.
(20) The inhibitory effect of serotonin on the kindling model of epilepsy was investigated in the adult rat.
Epileptiform
Definition:
(a.) Resembling epilepsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our data support the hypothesis that evoked and epileptiform magnetic fields result from intradendritic currents oriented perpendicular to the cortical surface.
(2) Most patients exhibited periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges or had autopsy-proved focal central nervous system lesions, or both.
(3) Transient psychotic episodes may result from continuous cerebral epileptiform discharges unaccompanied by clinically observed seizures.
(4) To further characterize the local differences in epileptiform activity, totally separate minislices of area CA1 and area CA2-3 were prepared.
(5) The preresection and postresection intraoperative electrocorticograms of 76 consecutive patients undergoing resective surgery for intractable epilepsy were analyzed to see if location, configuration, and discharge rate of epileptiform activity correlated with type and location of pathology of the resected specimens and outcome in regard to seizure control.
(6) Epileptiform activity is inhibited by injection of dopamine, and potentiated by injections of haloperidol into the caudate nucleus.
(7) could trigger seizures, and this suggests that the pathophysiology of epileptiform events in gerbils may have a unique association with exploratory behavior.
(8) Both treatments induce epileptiform activity in hippocampus lasting several hours.
(9) Inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) were observed during both primary evoked responses and propagating epileptiform events and were often comparable in size and duration to those in untreated cortex.
(10) The author evaluates the dynamics of immune reactivity of the body in patients with cerebral arachnoiditis with consideration of main clinical syndrome--hypertensive-hydrocephalic, epileptiform, autonomic-vascular dystonia syndromes in different variants of the course of the process.
(11) Proconvulsant agents initiated both interictal and ictal epileptiform events.
(12) At nonlethal toxic doses, the majority of motor symptoms induced by soman is due to impulses descending from the central nervous system, and a proportion of these symptoms are epileptiform activity.
(13) Based upon these findings we suggest that Ach is not critical to the establishment of an OB kindled focus but is important for the propagation and generalization of epileptiform activity initiated through OB stimulation.
(14) The effects evoked by changing [K+]o upon the synchronous epileptiform discharges (SEDs) generated in the presence of GABA antagonists were studied in the "in vitro" hippocampal slice with extra- and intracellular recordings.
(15) Visual cortical kindling was studied in chronically prepared rabbits with regard to the electrographic progress of epileptiform discharge trains following the daily stimulation and corresponding ictal behaviors.
(16) Epileptiform activity was induced in the visual cortex with penicillin to test whether it would prevent the ocular dominance shift that normally occurs in monocularly deprived kittens.
(17) Often initially normal, the EEG shows a variety of epileptiform abnormalities but intact background activity between 3 and 5 years.
(18) These data suggest that the generation or propagation of spontaneous epileptiform events induced by 4-AP in the neurons of basolateral amygdala is mediated by excitatory amino acids and that activation of non-NMDA receptors is of primary importance.
(19) Single shock and low frequency repetitive stimulation of subcortical sites from which prior to penicillin administration spindle activity and recruiting responses could be elicited, readily triggered epileptiform discharges in the same animals after penicillin.
(20) In contrast, pharmacological blockade of non-NMDA receptors did not influence the epileptiform activity observed in Mg(2+)-free ACSF.