 Epilepsy
"Epilepsy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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 | 19 | 2 | 21 | | 2022 | 18 | 2 | 20 | | 2023 | 27 | 0 | 27 | | 2024 | 14 | 5 | 19 | | 2025 | 13 | 2 | 15 | | 2026 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epilepsy" by people in Profiles.
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Iveson MH, Mukherjee M, Davidson EM, Zhang H, Sherlock L, Ball EL, Mair G, Hosking A, Whalley H, Poon MTC, Wardlaw JM, Kent DM, Tobin R, Grover C, Alex B, Whiteley W. Clinically reported covert cerebrovascular disease and risk of neurological disease: a whole-population cohort of 367 988 people using natural language processing. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2026 Jun 12; 97(7):630-638.
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Foster E, Chen Z, Conquest A, Vaughan DN, Tailby C, Carney PW, D'Souza W, Au Yong HM, Nicolo JP, Pellinen J, Liew D, O'Brien TJ, Kwan P, Ademi Z. Trajectories of quality of life, anxiety and depressive symptomatology, and health-related work productivity after first seizure events. Epilepsia Open. 2026 Jun; 11(3):859-870.
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Figueroa AG, Joshi CN, Patel MN. From clinical practice to mechanistic insights in ketogenic diets for epilepsy. Lancet Neurol. 2026 May; 25(5):519-532.
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Jeno M, Koop J, Gabriel M, Caraway A, Novotny E, Patrick K, Gonzalez-Giraldo E, Auguste K, Ostendorf A, McNally K, Alexander A, Berrios-Servios G, Eschbach K, Bolton J, Ailion A, Singh R, Wong-Kisiel L, Zaccariello M, Tatachar P, Duong P, Depositario-Cabacar D, Berl M, Sepeta L, Karakas C, Karia S, Mohapatra L, Rowmanowski E, McNamara N, Hodges E, Shrey D, Hennrick H, Olaya J, Arredondo K, DeLeon R, Reddy S, Molnar A, Javarayee P, Park SE, Coryell J, Olsen E, Bearden DJ, Winston M, Samanta D, Armstrong D, Wolf S, McGoldrick P, Marashly A, Grinspan Z, Nangia S, Perry M, Ciliberto M. Neuropsychological assessments in a large cohort of pediatric palliative epilepsy surgery patients. Epilepsy Behav. 2026 May; 178:110943.
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Mocker H, Pellinen J, Elder C. Cerebellar involvement and stimulation in epilepsy. Curr Opin Neurol. 2026 Apr 01; 39(2):101-106.
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Eschbach K, Silveira L, Spelbrink EM, Wirrell E, Bhatia S, Bearden DJ, Ludwig NN. Neuropsychological referral practices in early life epilepsy (ELE): A survey of the pediatric epilepsy research Consortium. Epilepsy Behav. 2026 Apr; 177:110934.
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Auvin S, Arzimanoglou A, French J, Knupp KG, Lagae L, Trinka E, Dlugos D, Perucca E. Evolution of the European Medicines Agency clinical guidelines for epilepsy drug development between 2010 and 2025: A comparative analysis by the ILAE Task Force on Regulatory Affairs. Epilepsia. 2026 Jun; 67(6):2743-2754.
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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 May; 292:115004.
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Vasilevsky N, Gehrke S, Mullen K, Barua S, Braun I, Brünger T, Coughlin C, Ivaniuk A, Korn D, Lal D, Marsh S, O'Loughlin E, Olson D, Shwetar Y, Sofocleous C, Vogel-Farley V, Grabenstatter H, Haendel M, Mungall C, Toro S. Epilepsy disease classification: a community effort to enhance the Mondo Disease Ontology. Database (Oxford). 2026 Jan 15; 2026.
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