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| Title |
The causes of new-onset epilepsy and seizures in the elderly
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| Published in |
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, June 2016
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| DOI | 10.2147/ndt.s107905 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Shasha Liu, Weihua Yu, Yang Lü |
| Abstract |
With increasing age, the prevalence and incidence of epilepsy and seizures increases correspondingly. New-onset epilepsy in elderly people often has underlying etiology, including cerebrovascular diseases, primary neuron degenerative disorders, intracerebral tumors, and traumatic head injury. In addition, an acute symptomatic seizure cannot be called epilepsy, which manifests usually as a common symptom secondary to metabolic or toxicity factors in older people. In this review, we have mainly focused on the causes of new-onset epilepsy and seizures in elderly people. This knowledge will certainly help us to understand the reasons for high incidences of epilepsy and seizures in elderly people. We look forward to controlling epileptic seizures via the treatment of primary diseases in the future. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 45% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 5 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 82% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 18% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 238 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 238 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 9% |
| Other | 14 | 6% |
| Researcher | 14 | 6% |
| Other | 44 | 18% |
| Unknown | 87 | 37% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 69 | 29% |
| Neuroscience | 18 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 11 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 19 | 8% |
| Unknown | 98 | 41% |
Attention Score in Context
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#2,176,664
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#271
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#37,926
of 353,638 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
#13
of 94 outputs
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