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.
04/16/2019 /
New evidence suggests responsive neurostimulation can remodel the brain to be less susceptible to seizures.
04/15/2019 /
Researchers are studying whether neural stem cell transplantation can reduce this abnormal adult neurogenesis in mice that have temporal lobe epilepsy.
04/15/2019 /
The efficacy and the tolerability of lacosamide as monotherapy was favorable even at low doses in older patients and comparable with levetiracetam with a high rate of long-term seizure freedom.
