Biomedical subjects

N Badinand-Hubert

Publications and source records attributed to N Badinand-Hubert.

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PubMed2000

Hot water epilepsy: a benign and unrecognized form.

Hot water epilepsy is a reflex epilepsy. Seizures are provoked by hot water, and result from the association of both cutaneous and heat stimuli. Described mainly in India and Japan, the condition seems to be rare in Europe, where it occurs in young children. We report five infants aged from 6 months to 2 years. They had brief seizures during bathing with activity arrest, hypotonia, and vasoactive modification; clonic movements were observed. A simple treatment-decreasing the bath temperature-can be sufficient. Sometimes an antiepileptic drug is required. Seizure course and psychomotor development are favorable. Hot water epilepsy is a benign form of epilepsy. Its incidence could be underestimated because of confusion with febrile convulsions, vagal fits, or aquagenic urticaria.

Electroencephalography↗

PubMed1998

Epilepsies and video games: results of a multicentric study.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to research whether or not video games may induce paroxysmal discharges (PD) in different groups of patients. METHODS: One hundred and fifteen subjects from 5 different French laboratories were studied: 33 had seizures exclusively under visual stimuli, 42 had both photogenic seizures and spontaneous seizures occuring independently, and 40 had non-photogenic seizures. The same protocol which included one TV sequence, 3 sequences of video games selected on particular criteria (pattern, luminosity and nature of the scene), were presented at different distances from the TV screen at 50 and 100 Hz. RESULTS: Among the factors provoking paroxysmal discharges (PD) some seem crucial: the frequency of the TV screen (the 100 Hz screen was significantly safer than 50 Hz), the distance from the screen (1 m safer than 50 cm), and, particularly for the 50 Hz screen, the specific pattern of the images and the act of playing. CONCLUSIONS: Video games are ineffective for subjects known as having a non-photosensitive epilepsy, but may induce PD on subjects known as photosensitive even when intermittent light stimulation (ILS) is not effective. These results based on a different approach than in other publications confirm data which were suggested by the literature, and suggest that 100 Hz TV screens should be recommended to patients with TV-induced attacks.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1994

[Generalized idiopathic epilepsy in older children and adolescents].

Generalized idiopathic epilepsies starting between 12 and 18 years of age are mostly represented by juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, juvenile absence epilepsy and grand-mal on awakening. The EEG and clinical description of the seizures, the different epileptic syndromes with their therapeutics, the prognosis and the familial forms with the molecular genetic aspects are studied. The importance of the history for the positive diagnosis is emphasized, in order to display the often overlooked myoclonies occurring in the morning. Differential diagnosis concerns mostly absences which are sometimes difficult to separate from frontal seizures, and in the case of first generalized tonico-clonic seizure, partial epilepsy which needs further investigations, and the exceptional progressive myoclonic epilepsy which begins the same way, but has a totally different prognosis. Psycho-social difficulties due to epilepsy and lack of therapeutic compliance are frequent. The therapeutic results are generally good but there is a high rate of relapse after medication withdrawal.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1991

[Electroencephalography, epilepsy and brain tumor].

The authors present a critical analysis of electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded in children with supratentorial intracranial tumor. They emphasize the value of clinical and EEG presentation in the diagnosis of epileptogenic tumor in children and in the evolution of the children who underwent surgery.

Brain Neoplasms↗