An increased risk of post-traumatic epilepsy is associated with higher age, moderate severity of injury, obliterated suprasellar cisterns, seizures during ICU stay and surgical care.
For her 75th birthday, CURE Champion Mary Fox hosted a 26 day virtual marathon in honor of her granddaughter who has epilepsy.
This study aimed to develop personalized forecasts from a mobile seizure diary app, since seizure cycles can be measured using a range of recording modalities.
Pregabalin 14 mg/kg/d (but not 7 mg/kg/d) significantly reduced seizure rate in children with focal-onset seizures, when assessed using V?EEG, compared with placebo.
Doctors may be missing an opportunity to develop preventive treatment for epilepsy by not evaluating potentially “repurposable” medications clinically.
A round-up of news and events for epilepsy researchers and doctors in March 2020.
See what updates and discoveries our grantees have made as part of this initiative to find ways to study PTE and, ultimately, prevent it.
Researchers at the University of Bonn have now identified a mechanism that may explain one link between brain inflammation and epilepsy.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Patients prone to developing pharmacoresistant epilepsy might be identified as early as the neonatal and early infant period.
