<jats:p>Early childhood autism, or autism spectrum disorders, is an extremely heterogeneous group of conditions that share similar symptoms  of dysontogenesis. Epilepsy is the most significant comorbidity in autism. The present article covers various aspects of comorbid...

<jats:p>Convulsions in full-term and especially in premature newborns are observable pathologies. Selection of anticonvulsant therapy is very difficult:<jats:italic> </jats:italic>newborns have particular pharmacokinetics of drugs, insufficient data on doses and therape...

17–18 декабря2015 г. в Санкт-Петербурге прошла конференция «Эпилептология в системе нейронаук», посвященная 105-летию учреждения Российской противоэпилептической лиги и 140-летию со дня рождения первого нейрохирурга России – профессора Л.М. Пуссепа. В ходе конференции р...

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) is a hereditary disease mainly affecting skin and peripheral nervous system. Individual signs of cutaneous manifestations of NF-1 can imitate or be combined with other neurocutaneous syndromes. At present on the outpatient phase is not al...

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Some issues concerning the impact of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system (HPAS) hormones on epileptogenesis are discussed in the article. It was found, that they have a direct and indirect impact. Direct effect implies the reduction of excitation level in the brain ce...

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<jats:p>Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is an exceedingly rare disorder that affects 1 in 1.000.000 children. However, we believe that FIRES is more common, since many cases remain undiagnosed. The exact pathogenesis of this clinical syndrome is stil...

The authors present a detailed literature review, devoted to epilepsy with electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep (ESES), as well as own data. The issues of classification, etiology, ESES diagnostic criteria, aproaches to therapy and prognosis are discusse...