Pediatric Epilepsy
These findings support the safety and efficacy of adjunctive fenfluramine as a new treatment option for these patients.
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.