08/23/2018 /
Mutations associated with Dravet syndrome in mice led to irregularities in the heart muscle’s sodium channels.
08/21/2018 /
This study is investigating whether Lacosamide (Vimpat®)—when taken with current anti-epileptic medicine—helps decrease the number of seizures patients experience
08/21/2018 /
Investigators are testing the feasibility and acceptability of this study’s procedures, measures and of the YESS! web-based intervention.
08/19/2018 /
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.
08/18/2018 /
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.
08/17/2018 /
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.
08/17/2018 /
The BELLE study is investigating whether Brivaracetam (Briviact®) given intravenously (into the vein) is safe for children and what it does in the body.
08/17/2018 /
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.
