As prenatal exposure to certain older anti-seizure medications (ASMs) has been linked with poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes in children, the use of newer ASMs throughout pregnancy has increased.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Epilepsy surgery during the first few months of life is associated with excellent seizure control, and when performed by highly experienced teams, is not associated with more permanent morbidity than surgery in older infants.
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Advances in computational models may in the future significantly increase the application and efficacy of surgery for patients with drug resistant epilepsy by optimizing the site and amount of cortex to resect, but more research is needed before it achieves therapeutic utility.
New molecules, developed by researchers at Linköping University, have promising properties as possible drugs against epilepsy.
In this work, the researchers have developed a transcriptional map that identifies the precise genetic code of all cell types specifically affected in the disease.
Pediatric Epilepsy
When it comes to childhood epilepsy, the unpredictability of seizure patterns, comorbid conditions, the risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), and societal stigma can be emotionally taxing on children and their primary caregivers.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Children's Epilepsy Diagnosis Aid has the potential to improve pediatric epilepsy diagnosis and therefore management and is particularly likely to be useful in the many situations where access to epilepsy specialists is limited.
