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Mutations associated with Dravet syndrome in mice led to irregularities in the heart muscle's sodium channels.
This study is investigating whether Lacosamide (Vimpat®)—when taken with current anti-epileptic medicine—helps decrease the number of seizures patients experience
Investigators are testing the feasibility and acceptability of this study's procedures, measures and of the YESS! web-based intervention.
This study estimates the cost of admissions related to status epilepticus in the USA to be approximately $7000 in children and $13,000 in adults, and quantifies how costs markedly increase once status epilepticus becomes super-refractory.
On this week’s episode of “Chicago Stories” the star of Chicago’s “Hamilton” Miguel Cervantes gives Mayor Emanuel his take on the smash-hit musical, shares the story of his hard-won career, and talks about his biggest role of all as “Dad” and raising awareness for childhood epilepsy.
This multi-site study will examine patients with post-traumatic epilepsy and post-traumatic psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), and will compare these patients to those with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who do not have seizures using functional neuroimaging.
The BELLE study is investigating whether Brivaracetam (Briviact®) given intravenously (into the vein) is safe for children and what it does in the body.
In a first-in-humans pilot study, researchers identified a sentinel area of the brain that may give an early warning before clinical seizure manifestations appear.