05/11/2023 /
occupational (work-related), chronic exposure to pesticides increases risk factors of epilepsy, a neurological disorder causing unprovoked, reoccurring seizures.
05/11/2023 /
Mental Health Awareness Month, $3.1 million raised for epilepsy research, and more in this CURE Epilepsy Update.
05/10/2023 /
Robot-assisted SEEG significantly reduced the duration of surgery (STS and TPT) compared to SDE implantations.
05/10/2023 /
There is potential for epilepsy surgery to provide clinically meaningful improvements in quality of life.
05/10/2023 /
While eyelid myoclonia is the disease hallmark, other seizure types, including absence seizures and generalized tonic-clonic seizures, may be present. It is thought to have a genetic etiology, and around one-third of patients may have a positive family history of epilepsy. Recently, specific genetic mutations have been recognized in a minority of patients.
05/09/2023 /
We found a substantially lower proportion of patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy remained untreated compared to previous estimates from administrative data analysis.
05/08/2023 /
“It shows that epilepsies that are not usually inherited can still be genetic in their mechanism. And the specific genetic pathway we have identified, RAS/MAPK, opens a whole new avenue of therapeutic possibilities, since anti-cancer drugs that target this pathway may have unexpected uses in epilepsy,” Walsh said.
05/05/2023 /
Long-term treatment with soticlestat was found to reduce seizure frequency by more than 50% in most Dravet syndrome patients, according to about two years of data from the ongoing ENDYMION 1 clinical trial.
05/04/2023 /
Paradoxical levetiracetam (LEV) effects occurred in people with epilepsy, particularly in those with drug-resistant focal epilepsy. Furthermore, the occurrence of REDs in EEG was an independent factor associated with the paradoxical effects of LEV in people with epilepsy.
