07/17/2025 / University of Iowa
A new study has revealed a significant association between high blood pressure during pregnancy (gestational hypertension) and an increased risk of seizures in children.
06/18/2025 / Neurobiology of Disease
Advances in high throughput metagenomic sequencing, a powerful technology that allows researchers to sequence DNA and RNA rapidly, have increasingly highlighted the role of gut microbiota imbalance in epilepsy.
06/18/2025 / News-Medical.net
New research has shown that the process of insulin resistance in the brain affects both Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy and may be a linking factor between the two diseases.
06/18/2025 / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital developed a cortical organoid model for UBA5-associated encephalopathy, revealing a new way to possibly address developmental defects.
05/20/2025 / The Transmitter
A potential new gene therapy for Dravet syndrome increases survival and prevents seizures, according to initial tests in mice.
05/20/2025 / The Arcuate
In a large cohort of children with drug-resistant epilepsy, researchers showed that “fast ripples” are the best biomarkers to predict surgical outcomes, but they can be seen in only 43% of patients.
05/20/2025 / Medical Express
Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, according to a recent study conducted by CURE Epilepsy grantee Professor Sanjay Sisodiya of UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
05/20/2025 / Children's Hospital of Philidelphia
The study found that patients with SCN8A-related disorders had more than 10-fold risk for developing bilateral tonic-clinic seizures as early as one year of age.
04/24/2025 / University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Recent research has identified defects related to metabolism in children with Dravet syndrome.
