Using an arithmetic technique to select the best combination two medications with the highest efficacy, researchers state that there is a positive interaction between two neurosteroids brexanolone and ganaxolone and two antiepileptic medications tiagabine and midazolam.
The 3 papers included in this collection are peer-reviewed studies that systematically assessed EEGs in patients with COVID-19, as of July 26, 2020.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Children with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) can suffer from many developmental problems. New findings show a very high prevalence of epilepsy/seizures in the FASD population. Learn more.
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Genetics, Pediatric Epilepsy, SUDEP
A round-up of epilepsy news from the past month.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Used in addition to standard treatments, therapeutic hypothermia - based on lowering the body’s temperature - can shorten the duration of long-lasting seizures in drug-resistant forms of epilepsy, a study finds.
AEDs taken during pregnancy do not increase the number of de novo variants in the baby, irrespective of whether the baby had birth defects or not.
Different laboratories may show clinically substantial conflict in some interpretations of genetic variants in patients with epilepsy, according to a study.
SUDEP
Epilepsy patients in the poorest communities are more than twice as likely to suffer sudden unexplained death due to epilepsy (SUDEP) than their counterparts at the highest end of the socioeconomic ladder.
