Hypsarrhythmia: variations on the theme

RA Hrachovy, JD Frost Jr, P Kellaway - Epilepsia, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
Prolonged monitoring studies of patients with infantile spasms have shown that hypsarrhythmia
is a highly variable and dynamic electroencephalographic pattern. Variations of the …

Precise characterization and quantification of infantile spasms

P Kellaway, RA Hrachovy, JD Frost Jr… - Annals of Neurology …, 1979 - Wiley Online Library
With the use of a time‐synchronized video and polygraphic recording system, 5,042 infantile
spasms were monitored and analyzed in 24 infants aged 1 to 43 months. Of these, 33.9% …

Double-blind study of ACTH vs prednisone therapy in infantile spasms

RA Hrachovy, JD Frost Jr, P Kellaway, TE Zion - The Journal of pediatrics, 1983 - Elsevier
Twenty-four patients with infantile spasms were entered in a double-blind, placebo-controlled,
crossover study to compare the therapeutic effectiveness of ACTH (20 to 30 units/day) …

Infantile epileptic encephalopathy with hypsarrhythmia (infantile spasms/West syndrome)

RA Hrachovy, JD Frost Jr - Journal of clinical neurophysiology, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Infantile spasms is a unique disorder peculiar to infancy and early childhood. In this article,
the clinical manifestations and electroencephalographic features of the disorder are …

High-dose, long-duration versus low-dose, short-duration corticotropin therapy for infantile spasms

RA Hrachovy, JD Frost Jr, DG Glaze - The Journal of pediatrics, 1994 - Elsevier
Fifty patients in whom the diagnosis of infantile spasms had recently been made and who
had hypsarrhythmic electroencephalographic findings were randomly assigned to receive …

A triplet repeat expansion genetic mouse model of infantile spasms syndrome, Arx (GCG) 10+ 7, with interneuronopathy, spasms in infancy, persistent seizures, and …

…, DL Burgess, F Deng, RA Hrachovy… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Infantile spasms syndrome (ISS) is a catastrophic pediatric epilepsy with motor spasms,
persistent seizures, mental retardation, and in some cases, autism. One of its monogenic causes …

Pathogenesis of infantile spasms: a model based on developmental desynchronization

JD Frost Jr, RA Hrachovy - Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2005 - journals.lww.com
… region receives inputs from widespread brain areas, and so the brainstem dysfunction
could possibly be secondary to a primary disturbance located in some other region ( Hrachovy

Prospective study of outcome of infants with infantile spasms treated during controlled studies of ACTH and prednisone

DG Glaze, RA Hrachovy, JD Frost Jr, P Kellaway… - The Journal of …, 1988 - Elsevier
We report the long-term outcome of 64 infants with infantile spasms, followed prospectively,
using controlled treatment schedules and objective techniques (24-hour EEG and video …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying depression in epilepsy in a busy clinical setting is enhanced with systematic screening

…, DH Kung, S Laowattana, JS Kass, RA Hrachovy… - Seizure, 2009 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Depression is a highly prevalent, relatively underdiagnosed and undertreated
comorbid condition in epilepsy. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using …

Sleep characteristics in infantile spasms

RA Hrachovy, JD Frost Jr, P Kellaway - Neurology, 1981 - AAN Enterprises
Sleep staging was performed on 32 patients with infantile spasms. All patients demonstrated
significantly less total sleep time and lower percentage of REM time than the expected …