Adolescents with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) face many challenges in the school setting. Researchers have identified school stressors as potential predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors for PNES.
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Genetics
Featuring the work of former CURE Epilepsy Grantee Dr. Gemma Carvill. Investigators have discovered a new method to determine whether individual genetic variants in the epilepsy-associated gene SZT2 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the journal Brain.
We need more research with a specific focus on stigma in FS, and factors that contribute to FS stigma (e.g. culture and context, naming of the condition), as well as accessible interventions and guidelines addressing FS stigma through education and training.
Young people hospitalised with epilepsy have higher risk of not achieving minimum standards for numeracy and reading and not completing high school compared to matched peers. There is a need for effective strategies and interventions (e.g., early seizure control and improved multidisciplinary management and care coordination) to minimise the potential adverse effect of epilepsy on education and its sequelae such as early school leaving, unemployment and poverty in adulthood.
Patients with epilepsy have a high risk of accidents and injuries, resulting in minimized physical activity and social withdrawal. Therefore, we surveyed the types of injuries that adult and paediatric patients with epilepsy may endure, the factors that may increase the risk of injuries, the clinical outcomes, and the limitations the patients may encounter because of traumas.
We demonstrated the significant impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on epilepsy care. These results support those of previous studies and clarify the effect size of each pandemic-related factor on epilepsy care.
This study aimed to explore whether the time from stroke to epilepsy onset was related to the risk of drug resistance in patients with poststroke epilepsy (PSE).
Results showed that all ED visits, including seizure-related ones, decreased among all age groups and sexes during the pandemic period from April 1 to Dec. 29, 2020, compared with the same period in 2019. The largest decline in seizure-related ED visits, noted as early as February 2020, was observed among children aged 0 to 9 years.
