Karl O. Nakken

01.12.2015: Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare childhood-onset epileptic encephalopathy. The condition should be suspected if a child with normal development shows a fairly abrupt loss of established language skills. Such children should be referred to a regional department of paediatric medicine or the...

08.09.2015: The main differential diagnosis of epilepsy among young adults is psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Such seizures may manifest themselves in very different ways and usually have complex root causes. Optimal treatment of persons experiencing seizures of this type requires close cooperation between...

09.12.2014: Ideas that appear very strange to us have shaped views of epilepsy throughout our history. A number of creative, but mostly ineffective cures have been attempted. Older writings testify to the fact that persons with epileptic seizures have been discriminated against throughout history. We can hardly...

09.12.2014: Through the ages, people with epilepsy have been subject to stigmatisation. To what extent is this still a reality? The depiction of epilepsy in contemporary popular music may reflect these attitudes. Throughout our history, epilepsy has remained a disease associated with stigmatisation (1, 2). To...

18.02.2011: As a neurologist with an interest in skiing, I have had the opportunity to study a phenomenon that I believe merits broader attention. This phenomenon is skiencephalia – skis on the brain. I have undertaken an observational study of persons in my social circle who I believe are suffering from this...