Epilepsy was defined conceptually in 2005 as a disorder of the brain characterized by an
enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures. This definition is usually practically …

Population‐based epidemiological studies on epilepsy are available mainly from the UK
and the Nordic, Baltic and western Mediterranean countries. No studies were identified from …

Purpose: To consider the definition of acute symptomatic seizures for epidemiological
studies, and to refine the criteria used to distinguish these seizures from unprovoked …

Importance Neurofilament light protein (NfL) is elevated in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of a
number of neurological conditions compared with healthy controls (HC) and is a candidate …

Objective: To investigate the association between human herpesviruses and multiple
sclerosis (MS), as well as between measles virus and MS. Methods: The authors identified …

In a population‐based prospective study of epileptic seizures in adults aged≥ 17 years, we
identified 563 patients with possible seizures in a period of 34 months. Seizures were …

Recent reports have shown heterozygosity for some twenty different mutations in the CuZn–
superoxide dismutase (CuZn–SOD) gene in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) …

Four-hundred and fifty-one blood samples from Scandinavian patients with motor neuron
disease were analysed for mutations in the CuZn-superoxide dismutase gene. Forty-one …

An epidemiological community-based study of incident cases with non-provoked epileptic
seizures, using case-referent methodology, was carried out to explore possible risk factors …

We describe 36 patients (six were apparently sporadic cases and 30 were cases from nine
families) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) characterized by a distinct phenotype …