Twelve weeks of modified Atkins diet (MAD) treatment leads to significant changes in bone and Ca metabolism, with a possible negative effect on bone health as a result. A reduced level of leptin may be a triggering mechanism.
There is clear evidence that resective surgery in eligible surgical drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) patients results in improved productivity.
Pediatric Epilepsy
ZNS is an effective and reliable option as an add-on therapy in paediatric refractory epilepsy, especially in focal epilepsy. It can also be considered for treatment in TSC patients.
Probiotic supplementation may have anti-seizure effect by reducing proinflammatory cytokine and nitric oxide levels in epileptic rat brain.
Ketogenic Diet
These cases highlight the ketogenic diet as an effective approach to manage prolonged non-convulsive seizures related to Angelman and suggest that carbohydrate restriction may, by itself, have an effect on these seizures.
An interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers has designed brain-machine interface chips that, when implanted in humans, can reduce the rate of epileptic seizures.
Despite Fintepla’s active ingredient being fenfluramine — a medicine initially developed to suppress appetite — the data showed that children on long-term treatment had growth comparable to that of same-aged patients not on the therapy.
The Cameron Boyce Foundation and CURE Epilepsy have again joined forces to award The CURE Epilepsy Cameron Boyce SUDEP Research Award.
Ketogenic Diet
Study indicates consuming a Ketogenic Diet may reduce the effects of brain damage for those who experience a traumatic brain injury.
