Relationship dynamics play a key role in patient-centered epilepsy care, with clinical implications for guiding supportive caregiving, fostering independence and promoting self-management strategies.
The team redesigned the concepts of seizures in the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) using the latest expert opinions from the International League Against Epilepsy.
This month we are fortunate to have many opportunities to more formally recognize so many members of our epilepsy community.
Genetics
Panel/exome sequencing displayed the highest yield and should be considered as first-tier diagnostics in neurodevelopmental disorders with epilepsy.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Both vertical and lateral hemispherotomy approaches result in durable, reproducible benefits to epilepsy severity and functional status in appropriately selected pediatric patients.
Lower quality of life, higher prevalence of depression, healthcare availability issues, and perceived fears during pandemic all suggest COVID-19 has negatively impacted lives of patients with epilepsy.
While postictal headache is a common and disabling condition, its treatment is often overlooked. Flunarizine and sumatriptan can be good candidates to be used in future clinical trials of the treatment of postictal headache.
There are gender differences in certain epilepsy-related factors predicting health-related quality of life at 1 year in persons with newly-diagnosed epilepsy.
Veterans with PNES and veterans with epilepsy are both at significantly increased risk for suicide and SRB when compared to the general population.
