While the importance of managing depression and anxiety in patients with epilepsy is being recognized, there are ongoing barriers to effective mental health care. Key future directions include the need for updated protocols in this area and the integration of mental health professionals within epilepsy settings.
This app, now validated by experts, provides an objective, reproducible method for selecting antiseizure medication that accounts for relevant clinical features.
There is a slightly increased risk of hospital admission and death from COVID-19 in people with epilepsy, according to a new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Epilepsy remains a leading chronic neurological disorder in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. In Uganda, the highest burden is among young rural people...Read More
Validated epilepsy screening questionnaires are now available for the three languages to be used for community-based epilepsy survey in Nigeria.
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To characterize the nature and prevalence of cognitive disorders in older adults with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and compare their cognitive profiles to patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (ie, aMCI).
The economic burden of childhood epilepsy to the health care system remains poorly understood. This study aimed to determine phase?specific and cumulative long?term health care costs in children with epilepsy (CWE) from the health care payer perspective.
Stress is the body's reaction to any change that requires adaptive responses. In various organisms, stress is a seizure-related comorbidity. Despite the exposure to stressors eliciting aversive behaviors in zebrafish, there are no data showing whether stress potentiates epileptic seizures in this species.
