Study demonstrates clinical effectiveness of eslicarbazepine acetate, noting it is generally well tolerated as an adjunctive therapy in focal epilepsy patients with psychiatric comorbidities, including intellectual disability, compared with people with no psychiatric comorbidities.
Strategies aimed at improving the ability of principal neurons to maintain a trans-membrane chloride gradient in the face of excessive network activity can prevent interneurons from contributing to seizure perpetuation.
Compared to population norms, a high proportion of children of mothers with epilepsy exposed prenatally to monotherapy with four common antiepileptic drugs had clinical behavioral problems reported by parents.
The financial consequences of epilepsy among older Americans disproportionally affect minorities.
Children can keep full visual perception — the ability to process and understand visual information — after brain surgery for severe epilepsy, according to a study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health.
Genetics
Two Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine graduate students are advancing the science behind genetic mutations that cause rare forms of epilepsy and movement disorders.
Treatment with the drug did not result in a statistically significant reduction in seizure frequency versus placebo.
SUDEP
Researchers state these findings confirm that patients with comorbid epileptic seizures and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures can die from SUDEP.
