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.
11/13/2018 /
Selective placement of stimulation electrodes along the corpus callosum could be used as a patient?specific treatment for cortical epilepsies.
11/13/2018 /
In this cohort, the overall mortality of first?time nonhypoxic status epilepticus was >50%. Mortality of status epilepticus after discharge was substantially higher than in?house mortality and stabilized after 2 years.
