Pediatric Epilepsy
This study highlights the importance of GTP-binding domain of GNAO1 for G-protein signaling and neurodevelopment.
These results suggest that epilepsy should not automatically preclude patients from receiving ADHD medications.
In both epileptologists and patients with difficult?to?treat epilepsy, this study found high decision rates against presurgical assessment.
An implantable device that delivers high and consistent levels of therapeutic protein directly to the brain has been developed by a research team.
Pediatric Epilepsy
A web-based application could help doctors diagnose epilepsy in children following an initial paroxysmal event with little information to differentiate epilepsy from other possibilities.
Failure to correct medication nonadherence resulted in an increase in daily seizure burden in rats, even following dose escalation.
Total direct costs of Dravet Syndrome patients (excluding drugs) are driven by non-seizure-related healthcare use and high seizure burden is associated with higher healthcare costs.
This 50-year, long-term follow-up demonstrates a better outcome for seizure freedom compared to our follow-up after 12 years and to previous reports.
Sleep disturbances are associated with impaired memory and executive function in patients with refractory focal epilepsy and to a lesser extent, among those with medically controlled epilepsy.
