Ketogenic Diet
Increasing blood ketones by using ketogenic supplementation can reduce seizures without dietary restriction.
Pediatric Epilepsy
For children aged 3 months to 18 years, doses between 40 and 50?mg/kg/day allow vigabatrin-S expositions similar to those found in adults at the recommended posology.
A new neurostimulator developed by engineers at UC Berkeley can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at the same time, potentially delivering fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson’s.
For children who have had 1 or more seizures, the model may help to determine the risk a child has of receiving a diagnosis of epilepsy, according to this report.
Pediatric Epilepsy
A study characterizes non-convulsive seizures in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome and identifies the brain area that could be targeted to stop them.
This paper discusses the advantage and limitations of screening tools and makes a compelling argument for neurologists to take an active role in the diagnosis and treatment of common psychiatric comorbidities in patients with epilepsy.
This paper explores the nature of psychiatric comorbidities in people with an intellectual disability who have epilepsy.
This study finds that grafting certain cells derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells into the brain can help alleviate seizures, as well as improve brain function, in rats modeling temporal lobe epilepsy.
