This article is co-authored by a parent of a 32-year-old male patient with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome (LGS) and his epileptologist. It discusses the parent’s experience of having a child with LGS from diagnosis through living day-to-day with the disease and the physician’s perspective when treating this devastating epilepsy syndrome.
A new FDA alert has been issued for Lamotrigine/Lamictal.
There is a harmful myth that persists in modern culture that one should place objects into a seizing person's mouth to prevent "swallowing the tongue." Despite expert guidelines against this, the idea remains alive in popular media and public belief. The authors of this study aimed to investigate the myth's origins and discredit it.
This study sought to describe the clinical characteristics and evaluate the long-term treatment outcomes in older people with newly diagnosed epilepsy over the past 30 years.
Genetics
A recent study suggests that distinct genetic influences underlie the recently recognized entity of combined epilepsies, just as generalized epilepsies and focal epilepsies each have distinct genetic influences. Its conclusions have important implications for molecular genetic studies aimed at identifying genetic determinants of the epilepsies.
A recent study suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may hamper care for patients in need of EEG-based investigations, particularly patients with seizure disorders.
Ketogenic Diet
To answer the question posed in the title of the manuscript, the authors critically examined the connection between ketogenic diet (KD), gut microbiota (GM), and epilepsy.
SUDEP
Annually on October 23, the global epilepsy community comes together for SUDEP Action Day, an international event to raise awareness about Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP).
The study of high frequency oscillations (HFO) [a type of brain activity] in the electroencephalogram (EEG) as biomarkers of epileptic activity has merely focused on their spatial location and relationship to the epileptogenic zone.
