11/21/2018 /
Only about one-quarter of children with absence epilepsy in this study became seizure free with levetiracetam. Lack of seizure control requiring continued dose escalation should prompt early consideration of a therapeutic medication transition.
11/20/2018 /
Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have found evidence that genetic therapy may prevent the enhanced seizure susceptibility.
11/19/2018 /
Organoids promise hope of a cure for illnesses ranging from childhood epilepsy to Alzheimer’s.
11/19/2018 /
The ERGENT program provides free-of-charge genetic testing to babies who have features suggestive of a genetically-caused epilepsy.
11/17/2018 /
Advances in the ‘omics’, genetic epilepsy models and deep-phenotyping techniques have revolutionary translational research potential that can bring precision medicine to the forefront of clinical practice in the coming decade.
11/15/2018 /
The use of predictive AI models may ensure patients with predicted drug-resistant epilepsy receive specialist care with potentially more aggressive therapeutic interventions from diagnosis, to help reduce the serious sequelae of drug-resistant epilepsy.
11/14/2018 /
A round-up of top epilepsy research news from the past month.
11/14/2018 /
Epilepsy and Alzheimer’s Disease appear to be associated. People with Alzheimer’s disease have a high risk of developing seizures—more than 80 times the risk of people who don’t have Alzheimer’s.
11/14/2018 /
Outcomes suggest an association of hypertension, diabetes, smoking, APOE ?4 allele number, activity level, and alcohol use with late-onset epilepsy.
