Genetics
Whole-exome sequencing and epilepsy panel are the most cost-effective genetic tests for epilepsy, and, for a broad population of patients with unexplained epilepsy, this research supports starting with these tests.
A substantial proportion of mothers of children with epilepsy are at risk for depression, and this risk is stable over the long term.
"Prioritizing the approval of generic drugs to compete with medicines that face little or no competition is a key part of our efforts to support access and reduce drug costs to patients," said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD.
Naming tasks, which have helped to localize and lateralize a seizure onset region for surgery of focal epilepsy in adults, could now be as useful in children, with the recently reported success of a novel, age-specific assessment.
CBD
Researchers in this study reviewed the main findings of these trials regarding the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of Epidiolex for the treatment of children with Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes.
A round-up of the top epilepsy research news from the past month.
Disruption of fluid drain rules related to the central nervous system may promote or sustain central nervous system disease, conceivably applicable to epilepsy where extracellular accumulation of macromolecules and metabolic by?products occur at the interstitial and perivascular spaces.
Paper- and online-based externally validated nomograms are effective in predicting naming decline after temporal lobe surgery in patients with epilepsy.
Almost 9 in 10 Health Boards and Trusts in England and Wales do not enable mental health provision within epilepsy clinics.
