According to this register-based cross-sectional study, somatic and psychiatric comorbidities were more prevalent in people with epilepsy compared with lower levels of education and income.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Marinus intends to initiate a Phase 2, open label study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of adjunctive ganaxolone treatment in patients with seizures associated with TSC.
SK life science will launch a Phase 1 clinical trial for SKL24741 in 2020.
Computer scientists from Duke University and Harvard University have joined with physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Wisconsin to develop a machine learning model that can predict which patients are most at risk of having destructive seizures after suffering a stroke or other brain injury.
The study suggests that valproate avoidance/switch might be associated with unsatisfactory seizure control in women with idiopathic generalized epilepsy who are of childbearing potential.
Pediatric Epilepsy, SUDEP
Check out our initial round-up of the research presented at AES 2019.
These grants are awarded for novel research projects that address finding cures for epilepsy and address the goal of “no seizures, no side-effects.”
Genetics
Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have contributed to a decades-long global effort that has revealed two new gene mutations that cause a rare type of epilepsy, familial adult myoclonic epilepsy.
Teens with epilepsy were more than twice as likely as adults to talk about suicide on the internet, an analysis of 222,000 online posts showed.
