Assessment tool helps doctors ensure adolescents and young adults with epilepsy have the skills and confidence they need to take control of seizures and health care.
By applying tools of machine learning and network analysis, the Davis Lab in the Penn Epilepsy Center was assisted by a team of Penn interns this summer to target the ‘missing electrode problem,’ identifying regions of the brain that cause epilepsy.
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Polytherapy, especially the use of three or more antiepileptic drugs, correlated with a substantially decreased risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, according to findings from a nationwide case-control study conducted in Sweden. The findings, which were published in Neurology, also demonstrated a link between statin use and a decreased risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Valproic acid (VPA) is a widely used anti-epileptic drug, but many regulatory agencies have recommended that it should not be administered to women of childbearing age, unless they are taking contraceptives. This study aims to determine if candidate patients will (or will not) change their treatment.
Data suggests that the pandemic has affected the ways patients with seizures access the Health Care System.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers have developed Epiness, a device for detecting and predicting epileptic seizures based on machine-learning algorithms. The wearable device can generate an advanced warning about an upcoming seizure that will be sent to a smartphone up to an hour prior to its onset.
A group from The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified and characterized a novel potassium-channel activator, GiGA1, capable of selectively opening a subset of potassium channels to produce an antiseizure effect in animal models.
Community-based, public care programs are a requisite to close the epilepsy treatment gap in disadvantaged communities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Potential beneficiaries may, however, choose not to engage in these programs. View this study's findings.
This study aims to evaluate the perceived health of children with epilepsy as experienced by the respondents to a questionnaire, to assess the sense of control over their child's epilepsy, and how much support they feel they received in various environments.
