03/19/2026 / Mayo Clinic
After a seizure, the brain enters a deep sleep state that mimics memory storage — and that this effect can persist into the following night’s sleep. In effect, this “saves” the seizure’s path like a normal memory, strengthening the disease.
02/24/2026 / Epilepsia
A major advance in the field is the demonstration that HFOs can be recorded noninvasively using scalp EEG and MEG.
02/24/2026 / Neurology
Study finds that knowing about SUDEP before the death of a loved one provides emotional preparation, buffering the devastating reality and fostering agency and acceptance.
02/24/2026 / Pediatrics
Researchers state that maternal diabetes, particularly type 1 and type 2, is associated with an increased epilepsy risk in offspring.
01/15/2026 / Medscape
Preliminary clinical data suggest that LOE has unique characteristics. Patients are more frequently female, have a heavier comorbidity load but lower disability, and rarely develop drug-resistant epilepsy.
01/15/2026 / University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
This study suggests that mitochondrial defects play a role in the metabolic dysfunction observed in Dravet syndrome.
01/22/2026 / medicalxpress.com
People with depression have more than double the risk of developing epilepsy and depression makes epilepsy more difficult to treat.
01/22/2026 / Georgetown University Medical Center
New research suggests that temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is also tied to early aging in certain brain cells.
12/18/2025 / Epilepsia
Researchers investigated whether starting a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) is associated with lower seizure recurrence and related outcomes in adults with both epilepsy and type 2 diabetes.
