06/25/2020 /
According to the researchers, therapeutic hypothermia was found to be “safe for use in pediatric patients with refractory status epilepticus or super-refractory status epilepticus
06/24/2020 /
The duration of focal seizures was prolonged with increasing age of the patients and was significantly shortened by secondary spread.
06/24/2020 /
The assay of saliva samples provides a valuable alternative to the use of blood samples for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), at least for certain categories of patients.
06/23/2020 /
Psychoeducational interventions appear to have had positive results in Argentinian patients with PNES.
06/23/2020 /
According to available literature, the global clinic-based lifetime prevalence of epilepsy in individuals with Down syndrome ranged from 1.6% to 23.1%, with epileptic spasms representing 6.7% to 66.7% of these cases.
06/22/2020 /
This is the first study to provide objective evidence for a considerable negative effect of ZNS treatment on executive function, according to study authors.
06/18/2020 /
The team demonstrated that both mutations lead to a significant gain in channel activity, and they observed a higher sensitivity to stimulation by an endogenous neurosteroid and heat.
06/17/2020 /
Older US veterans who developed unprovoked seizures of unknown cause had double the risk of developing dementia over several years of follow-up.
06/17/2020 /
Independent of current depression, use of pregabalin (Lyrica®) in the younger group and frequent seizures in the older group were associated with a risk of suicide.