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.
Palliative care (PC) is an approach to the care of persons living with serious illness and their families that focuses on improving quality of life and reducing suffering by addressing complex medical symptoms, psychosocial needs, spiritual well-being, and advance care planning.
A recent study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that mice injected with similar gene mutations as humans who have some severe forms of epilepsy also exhibited very similar brain malformations as the humans.
Pharmacoresistant seizures occur in nearly one-third of people with epilepsy. Medial temporal lobe and lesional epilepsy are the most favorable surgically remediable epileptic syndromes...Read More
Anti-seizure medication (ASM) non-adherence contributes to treatment gap and increases mortality and morbidity associated with epilepsy. Beliefs about medications are considered better predictors of ASM non-adherence than clinico-demographic factors. We aimed to look into ASM non-adherence rates among adults with epilepsy (AWE), identify the contributing barriers and determine whether medication beliefs were more powerful predictors than clinico-demographic factors.
Cognitive decline is a major concern for older adults with epilepsy. Whether and how much faster older adults with epilepsy experience cognitive decline beyond expected age?related cognitive change remain unclear. We sought to estimate and compare rates of cognitive decline in older adults with and without epilepsy.
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It has been suggested for over 100 years that patterns of neurological symptoms and signs in functional neurological disorders may be shaped at a neural level by underlying ideas or preconceptions how neurological symptoms present. This study used experimental simulation to probe ideas about seizures in healthy volunteers, with a view to compare with features commonly observed in functional and epileptic seizure disorders.
