Featuring the research of former CURE Epilepsy grantee Dr. John Swann. This exciting study, published in the Annals of Neurology, has the potential to transform the treatment landscape for babies with infantile spasms.
To investigate differences in long-term survival and short-term neurological deficits in adult patients fulfilling either sub-criterion of the Salzburg Consensus Criteria (SC) for non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE).
Adults with Dravet syndrome commonly experience walking difficulties that tend to worsen with age, a small study reports.
Objective: To determine the diagnostic yield of in-hospital video-EEG monitoring to document seizures in epilepsy patients.
U.S. economic burden of seizures and/or epilepsies is substantial and warrants interventions focused on their unique and overlapping causes.
In this month's Epilepsy Research News we highlight new research on the brain "learning" to have seizures, improved therapeutic strategies for Dravet syndrome, and more.
A new study suggests that antidepressant use by mothers during the first trimester of pregnancy does not increase the chances of epilepsy and seizures in babies. The research is published in the May 11, 2022, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Reported non-invasive wearable devices had high sensitivity but relatively high false alarm rate in detecting tonic-clonic seizures during limited recording time in a video-EEG setting. Future studies should focus on reducing false alarm rate, detection of other seizure types and PNES, and longer recording in the community.
The study is the first to examine whether shunts, which allow excess cerebrospinal fluid to drain into the abdominal cavity, increase brain shift and, if so, whether certain types of shunts increase it more than others.
