The Tennessee scientist and mother of five has formed COMBINEDBrain — an acronym for “Consortium for Outcome Measures and Biomarkers for Neurodevelopmental Disorders.”
Genetics, Pediatric Epilepsy
These findings suggest the potential gains of thorough gene annotation in improving diagnostic yields for genetic disorders.
There are limited data on psychological outcomes in older people with epilepsy (PWE).
This study assessed the first-hand experiences of people with epilepsy using wearable devices continuously over a period of time, with the aim of understanding how acceptable and easy they were to use, and whether it is reasonable to expect that people will use them.
New findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveal that the three drugs, levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, and valproate, are equally safe and effective in treating patients with refractory status epilepticus.
The FDA approved 11/21/2019 XCOPRI (cenobamate tablets) to treat partial-onset seizures in adults.
Spanish-speaking American patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures were significantly more depressed and anxious and reported greater exposure to sexual trauma as compared with persons with epilepsy.
Seizure activity in forebrain induces pronounced autonomic activation and disrupts activity in medullary respiratory centers, resulting in death from either obstructive or central apnea.
The aim of this study was to compare parent-reported Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and behavior of young people before (baseline) and two years after pediatric epilepsy surgery (follow-up).
