Revista de neurologia
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Reflex seizures are provoked by a specific sensory stimulus. Approximately 6% of all epileptic patients have reflex seizures. For identification of these seizures it is necessary to take a directed history and make an EEG study whilst the patient is being exposed to the stimulus, which will confirm the diagnosis. ⋯ The diagnostic importance of reflex seizures is that when some formerly drug-resistant patients can control the mechanism which triggers off their seizures they attain good control of them.
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Revista de neurologia · Jun 2000
Review[Agitation in head injury. II. Treatment with antidepressant, sympathomimetic, beta blocker , dopaminergic and other drugs].
To review the literature of the past 20 years, using the articles indexed in MEDLINE, on the drug treatment of agitation in traumatic head injury. ⋯ Many drugs are used and there is little agreement on the subject. However, with regard to certain characteristics of the agitation, different pharmacological treatments may be recommended.