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    Age of epilepsy onset as modulating factor for naming deficit after epilepsy surgery: a voxel-based lesion-symptom map** study

    Age at onset of epilepsy is an important predictor of deterioration in naming ability following epilepsy surgery. In 141 patients with left hemispheric epilepsy and language dominance who received epilepsy sur...

    Caroline Reindl, Katrin Walther, Anna-Lena Allgäuer, Johannes D. Lang in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Quantitative EEG may predict weaning failure in ventilated patients on the neurological intensive care unit

    Neurocritical patients suffer from a substantial risk of extubation failure. The aim of this prospective study was to analyze if quantitative EEG (qEEG) monitoring is able to predict successful extubation in t...

    Tamara M. Welte, Maria Gabriel, Rüdiger Hopfengärtner, Stefan Rampp in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Anti-seizure medication is not associated with an increased risk to develop cancer in epilepsy patients

    Whether anti-seizure medication (ASM) increases the risk for cancer has been debated for decades. While for some ASM, a carcinoma-promoting effect has been suspected, carcinoma-protective effects have been sho...

    Jenny Stritzelberger, Johannes D. Lang, Tamara M. Mueller in Journal of Neurology (2021)

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    Ex vivo radiosensitivity is increased in non-cancer patients taking valproate

    Valproate (VPA) is a commonly prescribed antiepileptic drug for patients experiencing epileptic seizures due to brain tumors. VPA increases radiation sensitivity in various tumor cells in vitro due to complex ...

    Jenny Stritzelberger, Jennifer Lainer, Stefanie Gollwitzer, Wolfgang Graf in BMC Neurology (2020)