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Reading-induced seizure

MedGen UID:
1716048
•Concept ID:
C5397590
•
Disease or Syndrome
HPO: HP:0020212

Definition

A seizure precipitated by reading. [from HPO]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVReading-induced seizure

Professional guidelines

PubMed

International League Against Epilepsy classification and definition of epilepsy syndromes with onset at a variable age: position statement by the ILAE Task Force on Nosology and Definitions.
Riney K, Bogacz A, Somerville E, Hirsch E, Nabbout R, Scheffer IE, Zuberi SM, Alsaadi T, Jain S, French J, Specchio N, Trinka E, Wiebe S, Auvin S, Cabral-Lim L, Naidoo A, Perucca E, Moshé SL, Wirrell EC, Tinuper P
Epilepsia 2022 Jun;63(6):1443-1474. Epub 2022 May 3 doi: 10.1111/epi.17240. PMID: 35503725

Recent clinical studies

Diagnosis

Reading epilepsy today: A scoping review and meta-analysis of reports of the last three decades.
Puteikis K, Mameniškienė R, Wolf P
Epilepsy Behav 2023 Aug;145:109346. Epub 2023 Jul 10 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2023.109346. PMID: 37437391
International League Against Epilepsy classification and definition of epilepsy syndromes with onset at a variable age: position statement by the ILAE Task Force on Nosology and Definitions.
Riney K, Bogacz A, Somerville E, Hirsch E, Nabbout R, Scheffer IE, Zuberi SM, Alsaadi T, Jain S, French J, Specchio N, Trinka E, Wiebe S, Auvin S, Cabral-Lim L, Naidoo A, Perucca E, Moshé SL, Wirrell EC, Tinuper P
Epilepsia 2022 Jun;63(6):1443-1474. Epub 2022 May 3 doi: 10.1111/epi.17240. PMID: 35503725
Font specific reading-induced seizures.
Weaver DF
Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2014 Oct;125:210-1. Epub 2014 Aug 20 doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2014.07.035. PMID: 25178914
Imaging seizure activity: a combined EEG/EMG-fMRI study in reading epilepsy.
Salek-Haddadi A, Mayer T, Hamandi K, Symms M, Josephs O, Fluegel D, Woermann F, Richardson MP, Noppeney U, Wolf P, Koepp MJ
Epilepsia 2009 Feb;50(2):256-64. Epub 2008 Aug 19 doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01737.x. PMID: 18717713
Reading-induced absence seizures.
Singh B, Anderson L, al Gashlan M, al-Shahwan SA, Riela AR
Neurology 1995 Aug;45(8):1623-4. doi: 10.1212/wnl.45.8.1623. PMID: 7644067

Therapy

International League Against Epilepsy classification and definition of epilepsy syndromes with onset at a variable age: position statement by the ILAE Task Force on Nosology and Definitions.
Riney K, Bogacz A, Somerville E, Hirsch E, Nabbout R, Scheffer IE, Zuberi SM, Alsaadi T, Jain S, French J, Specchio N, Trinka E, Wiebe S, Auvin S, Cabral-Lim L, Naidoo A, Perucca E, Moshé SL, Wirrell EC, Tinuper P
Epilepsia 2022 Jun;63(6):1443-1474. Epub 2022 May 3 doi: 10.1111/epi.17240. PMID: 35503725
The variants of reading epilepsy. A clinical and video-EEG study of 17 patients with reading-induced seizures.
Koutroumanidis M, Koepp MJ, Richardson MP, Camfield C, Agathonikou A, Ried S, Papadimitriou A, Plant GT, Duncan JS, Panayiotopoulos CP
Brain 1998 Aug;121 ( Pt 8):1409-27. doi: 10.1093/brain/121.8.1409. PMID: 9712004
Reading-induced absence seizures.
Singh B, Anderson L, al Gashlan M, al-Shahwan SA, Riela AR
Neurology 1995 Aug;45(8):1623-4. doi: 10.1212/wnl.45.8.1623. PMID: 7644067
Clonazepam therapy in reading epilepsy.
Hall JH, Marshall PC
Neurology 1980 May;30(5):550-1. doi: 10.1212/wnl.30.5.550. PMID: 6768006

Prognosis

Reflex reading epilepsy: effect of linguistic characteristics on spike frequency.
Safi D, Lassonde M, Nguyen DK, Denault C, Macoir J, Rouleau I, Béland R
Epilepsy Behav 2011 Apr;20(4):659-67. Epub 2011 Apr 1 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.01.030. PMID: 21458387

Clinical prediction guides

Networks involved in seizure initiation. A reading epilepsy case studied with EEG-fMRI and MEG.
Vaudano AE, Carmichael DW, Salek-Haddadi A, Rampp S, Stefan H, Lemieux L, Koepp MJ
Neurology 2012 Jul 17;79(3):249-53. Epub 2012 Jul 3 doi: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31825fdf3a. PMID: 22764255Free PMC Article
Reflex reading epilepsy: effect of linguistic characteristics on spike frequency.
Safi D, Lassonde M, Nguyen DK, Denault C, Macoir J, Rouleau I, Béland R
Epilepsy Behav 2011 Apr;20(4):659-67. Epub 2011 Apr 1 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.01.030. PMID: 21458387
Imaging seizure activity: a combined EEG/EMG-fMRI study in reading epilepsy.
Salek-Haddadi A, Mayer T, Hamandi K, Symms M, Josephs O, Fluegel D, Woermann F, Richardson MP, Noppeney U, Wolf P, Koepp MJ
Epilepsia 2009 Feb;50(2):256-64. Epub 2008 Aug 19 doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01737.x. PMID: 18717713

Recent systematic reviews

Reading epilepsy today: A scoping review and meta-analysis of reports of the last three decades.
Puteikis K, Mameniškienė R, Wolf P
Epilepsy Behav 2023 Aug;145:109346. Epub 2023 Jul 10 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2023.109346. PMID: 37437391

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