04/29/2019 /
The severity of febrile seizures following vaccination is no different to febrile seizures from another cause, such as from a virus, and the majority of seizures are short-lived, self-resolving, and don’t require ongoing treatment.
04/29/2019 /
Students hope their effort will someday aid patients with epilepsy which medications can’t help, but may require surgery.
04/29/2019 /
A systematic review of bone fractures from generalized convulsive seizures and status epilepticus.
04/29/2019 /
Absence epilepsy can be triggered by impaired communication between two brain regions: the cortex and the striatum.
04/24/2019 /
Interictal dysphoric disorder (IDD) occurs in high frequency in people with epilepsy (PWE) with a substantial overlap of IDD with depressive and anxiety disorders.
04/24/2019 /
Children with convulsive status epilepticus who undertook formal testing were shown to have significantly lower full-scale intelligence quotients and global memory scores from controls.
04/17/2019 /
A retrospective, cross-sectional study has found that both BDNF and COMT may be associated with the pathophysiology of psychiatric comorbidities in patients with epilepsy.
04/17/2019 /
This study shows the potential beneficial effect of vagus nerve stimulation in the treatment of patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy and a comorbidity of symptoms of depression.
04/17/2019 /
In people with epilepsy, the lifetime prevalence of suicidal ideation is twice that of people without epilepsy and those with epilepsy are 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than people without epilepsy.
