 Epilepsy
"Epilepsy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure), (2) etiology (e.g., post-traumatic), (3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure), (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns (e.g., nocturnal epilepsy). (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p313)
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D004827
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.228.140.490
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| Concept/Terms |
Epilepsy- Epilepsy
- Epilepsies
- Seizure Disorder
- Seizure Disorders
Epilepsy, Cryptogenic- Epilepsy, Cryptogenic
- Cryptogenic Epilepsies
- Cryptogenic Epilepsy
- Epilepsies, Cryptogenic
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| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2004 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2010 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2011 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2012 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2014 | 8 | 1 | 9 | | 2015 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2016 | 8 | 5 | 13 | | 2017 | 12 | 2 | 14 | | 2018 | 12 | 2 | 14 | | 2019 | 14 | 3 | 17 | | 2020 | 15 | 1 | 16 | | 2021 | 18 | 2 | 20 | | 2022 | 17 | 2 | 19 | | 2023 | 27 | 0 | 27 | | 2024 | 13 | 5 | 18 | | 2025 | 10 | 2 | 12 | | 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epilepsy" by people in Profiles.
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Berl MM, Wagner J, Caraway A, Loblein H, Novotny EJ, Patrick K, Ostendorf AP, Alexander AL, Eschbach KL, Depositario-Cabacar DF, Vu TA, Oluigbo C, Karia SR, Karakas C, Wong-Kisiel LC, Romanowski EF, McNamara NA, Bolton J, Ailion A, Tatachar P, Pichon PD, Shrey DW, Singh RK, Coryell J, Lin JJ, Koop J, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Auguste K, Bernardo D, Ciliberto MA, Reddy SB, Ganesh A, Arredondo K, Grinspan Z, Nangia S, Samanta D, Marashly A, Armstrong D, Perry MS. Disparities across the pediatric epilepsy surgery journey: Referral, recommendation, and completion from a national consortium. Epilepsia. 2026 Apr; 67(4):1601-1613.
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McClure DL, Hanson KE, Sundaram ME, Kieke BA, Duffy J, McNeil MM, Glanz JM, Irving SA, Williams JTB, Kharbanda EO, Xu S, Zerbo O, Nelson JC, Belongia EA, Weintraub ES. Incident Epilepsy and Vaccination Status or Vaccine Aluminum Exposure in Children Under Age 4. J Pediatr. 2026 05; 292:115004.
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Abbott M, Angione K, Stringfellow M, Malik K, Saenz M, Miele A, Syverson K, Maniar B, Borello J, Chaby L, Demarest S. Evaluation of epilepsy in 8p-related disorders. Epilepsy Res. 2026 Feb; 220:107720.
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Kushner JK, Hoffman PB, Brzezinski CR, O'Neill BR, Hankinson TC, Wilkinson CC, Handler MH, Hoeffer CA, Alexander AL. 4-Aminopyridine induced hyperpolarizing oscillations in pediatric human epileptic tissue are network-driven potassium currents that are abolished by activation of KCNQ2-5 (Kv7.2-Kv7.5) channels. Neurobiol Dis. 2026 01; 218:107252.
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Nguyen-Martinez AL, Jolliffe M, Scimeca LM, Park KL, Demarest S, Knupp KG, Angione K, Miele AS. Single-gene childhood developmental epileptic encephalopathies: a primer for pediatric neuropsychologists. Child Neuropsychol. 2026 May; 32(4):551-579.
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Mukasakindi H, Nshimyiryo A, Smith SL, Mukandayisenga V, Ndayisaba A, Mulindabigwi A, Kateera F, Karema N, Mubiligi JM, Cubaka VK, Barnhart DA. Clinical outcomes of a primary care mental health implementation program scale-up in the Eastern Province of Rwanda: a prospective cohort study. BMC Psychiatry. 2025 Nov 20; 25(1):1112.
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Teoh J, Simko J, Camp CR, Liu CJ, Wang W, Williams DJ, Ma L, Soundararajan D, Martin C, Taylor NK, François E, Petri S, Kanber A, Ravichandra A, Pero ME, Bartolini F, Swayne TC, Lutz CM, Zuberi A, Rubinstein M, Hausman-Kedem M, Yuan H, Gelinas JN, Sands TT, Harper SQ, Traynelis SF, Makinson CD, Frankel WN. Synaptic dysregulation in a mouse model of GRIN2D developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. Brain. 2025 Nov 04; 148(11):3973-3988.
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Rhodes C, Rees B, Dubbs H, Lesser M, Morgan L, Benke TA, Percy A, Neul JL, Marsh ED. Natural history of epilepsy in FOXG1 Syndrome. Epilepsy Res. 2025 Dec; 218:107644.
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Gibson EA, Restrepo D. Highly sensitive TEMPO imaging illuminates the cellular basis of oscillations in the local field potential. Neuron. 2025 Aug 06; 113(15):2380-2381.
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Cuillerier A, Goodman A, Lawrence C, Villeneuve-Cloutier N, Armour CM, Bhola PT, Bourque DK, Carter MT, Lazier J, Sawyer SL, Saleh M, Prasad C, Siu VM, Boycott KM, Hartley T, Dyment DA, Balci TB. Diagnostic Utility of Exome Data Reanalysis After In Silico Multi-Gene Panels or Clinical Exome Testing for Patients With Epilepsy and Developmental Delay/Intellectual Disability: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Clin Genet. 2026 Jan; 109(1):40-49.
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