53% of women with frontal lobe epilepsy experience more frequent seizures during pregnancy, study finds.
People with epilepsy living in high crime neighborhoods in Chicago had three times as many seizures as those living in neighborhoods with lower crime rates, according to research.
A recent study shows a bio-marker based blood test can accurately distinguish epilepsy seizures from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES).
Patients with epilepsy have a new treatment option which is less aggressive than traditional surgery.
SUDEP
Those at high risk for SUDEP may move to a lower-risk category over time while those at low risk tend to stay there.
Current epilepsy syndrome classification has reduced applicability due to overlapping features, resulting in diagnosis switching and limited prognostic value for patients with an overlapping clinical phenotype.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Study says stiripentol has better efficacy in Dravet syndrome (DS) patients with definite SCN1A mutations than in DS patients with variants of unknown significance and benign SCN1A mutations,
This first population?based study using the ILAE 2015 definition and classification of SE found an increase of incidence of 10% compared to previous definitions.
