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Gulcebi MI, Bartolini E, Lee O, Lisgaras CP, Onat F, Mifsud J, Striano P, Vezzani A, Hildebrand MS, Jimenez-Jimenez D, Junck L, Lewis-Smith D, Scheffer IE, Thijs RD, Zuberi SM, Blenkinsop S, Fowler HJ, Foley A, Sisodiya SM, Berkovic S, Cavalleri G, Correa DJ, Martins Custodio H, Galovic M, Guerrini R, Henshall D, Howard O, Hughes K, Katsarou A, Koeleman BP, Krause R, Lowenstein D, Mandelenaki D, Marini C, O'Brien TJ, Pace A, De Palma L, Perucca P, Pitkänen A, Quinn F, Selmer KK, Steward CA, Swanborough N, Thijs R, Tittensor P, Trivisano M, Weckhuysen S, Zara F. Climate change and epilepsy: Insights from clinical and basic science studies. Epilepsy Behav 2021; 116:107791. [PMID: 33578223 PMCID: PMC9386889 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.107791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2020] [Revised: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 01/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Climate change is with us. As professionals who place value on evidence-based practice, climate change is something we cannot ignore. The current pandemic of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has demonstrated how global crises can arise suddenly and have a significant impact on public health. Global warming, a chronic process punctuated by acute episodes of extreme weather events, is an insidious global health crisis needing at least as much attention. Many neurological diseases are complex chronic conditions influenced at many levels by changes in the environment. This review aimed to collate and evaluate reports from clinical and basic science about the relationship between climate change and epilepsy. The keywords climate change, seasonal variation, temperature, humidity, thermoregulation, biorhythm, gene, circadian rhythm, heat, and weather were used to search the published evidence. A number of climatic variables are associated with increased seizure frequency in people with epilepsy. Climate change-induced increase in seizure precipitants such as fevers, stress, and sleep deprivation (e.g. as a result of more frequent extreme weather events) or vector-borne infections may trigger or exacerbate seizures, lead to deterioration of seizure control, and affect neurological, cerebrovascular, or cardiovascular comorbidities and risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Risks are likely to be modified by many factors, ranging from individual genetic variation and temperature-dependent channel function, to housing quality and global supply chains. According to the results of the limited number of experimental studies with animal models of seizures or epilepsy, different seizure types appear to have distinct susceptibility to seasonal influences. Increased body temperature, whether in the context of fever or not, has a critical role in seizure threshold and seizure-related brain damage. Links between climate change and epilepsy are likely to be multifactorial, complex, and often indirect, which makes predictions difficult. We need more data on possible climate-driven altered risks for seizures, epilepsy, and epileptogenesis, to identify underlying mechanisms at systems, cellular, and molecular levels for better understanding of the impact of climate change on epilepsy. Further focussed data would help us to develop evidence for mitigation methods to do more to protect people with epilepsy from the effects of climate change.
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- Medine I. Gulcebi
- Department of Medical Pharmacology, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- USL Centro Toscana, Neurology Unit, Nuovo Ospedale Santo Stefano, Via Suor Niccolina Infermiera 20, 59100 Prato, Italy.
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- Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
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- New York University Langone Health, 100 First Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA; The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Center for Dementia Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Rd., Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA.
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- Department of Medical Pharmacology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey,Department of Medical Pharmacology, Acibadem University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Malta, Msida MSD2040, Malta.
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- Paediatric Neurology and Muscular Diseases Unit, DINOGMI-Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genoa, IRCCS “Giannina Gaslini” Institute, Genova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, IRCCS 'Mario Negri' Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Medicine (Austin Health), University of Melbourne, and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, UK and Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Bucks, UK.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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- University of Melbourne, Austin Health and Royal Children’s Hospital, Florey Institute and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Paediatric Neurosciences Research Group, Royal Hospital for Children & Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Children, UK
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- Centre for Earth Systems Engineering Research, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK
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- Department of Geography, Birkbeck College University of London, London, UK.
| | - Epilepsy Climate Change ConsortiumBalestriniSimonaaaBerkovicSamuelabCavalleriGianpieroacCorreaDaniel JoséadMartins CustodioHelenaaeGalovicMarianafGuerriniRenzoagHenshallDavidahHowardOlgaaiHughesKelvinajKatsarouAnnaakKoelemanBobby P.C.alKrauseRolandamLowensteinDanielanMandelenakiDespoinaaoMariniCarlaapO’BrienTerence J.aqPaceAdrianarDe PalmaLucaasPeruccaPieroatPitkänenAslaauQuinnFinolaavSelmerKaja KristineawStewardCharles A.axSwanboroughNicolaayThijsRolandazTittensorPhilbaTrivisanoMarinabbWeckhuysenSarahbcZaraFedericobdDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK and Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Bucks, UKEpilepsy Research Centre, Department of Medicine, Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland; The FutureNeuro Research Centre, Dublin 2, IrelandSaul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, K-312, Bronx, NY 10461, USADepartment of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK; Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Bucks, UKUniversity Hospital Zurich, SwitzerlandDepartment of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Pisa and IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, 56018 Calambrone, Pisa, ItalyFutureNeuro SFI Research Centre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin D02 YN77, IrelandUCB Pharma Ltd, Slough, UKDravet Syndrome UK, UKLaboratory of Developmental Epilepsy, Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USAUniversity Medical Center, Utrecht, The NetherlandsLuxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, LuxembourgDepartment of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USADepartment of Pediatric Neurology, Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital, Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, BelgiumNeuroscience Department, Children’s Hospital A. Meyer-University of Florence, Florence, ItalyMelbourne Brain Centre, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology, Central Clinical School, Monash University, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaGozo General Hospital, MaltaNeurology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, ItalyDepartment of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Departments of Medicine and Neurology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Department of Neurology, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, PO Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, FinlandILAE-IBE Congress Secretariat, Dublin, IrelandNational Centre for Rare Epilepsy-related Disorders, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayCongenica Ltd, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1DR, UK; Wellcome Sanger InstituteWellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UKEpilepsy Society, Bucks, UKStichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Heemstede, Netherlands; Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UKRoyal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UKRare and Complex Epilepsy Unit, Department of Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, ItalyNeurogenetics Group, Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2610, BelgiumUnit of Medical Genetics, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy; Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), University of Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, UK and Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Bucks, UK,Corresponding author at: Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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Holter JL, Tfayli A, Venkattapa S, Bova A, Howard O. Phase II study of neoadjuvant therapy with epirubicin and docetaxel for women with locally advanced breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 2005. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2005.23.16_suppl.881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- J. L. Holter
- Univ of Oklahoma, Moore, OK; Univ of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
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- Univ of Oklahoma, Moore, OK; Univ of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
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- Univ of Oklahoma, Moore, OK; Univ of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
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- Univ of Oklahoma, Moore, OK; Univ of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
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- Univ of Oklahoma, Moore, OK; Univ of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
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