In the near future, these findings may be harnessed to rethink imaging and treatment options for epilepsy patients.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Enhancing teachers' knowledge about epilepsy has the potential to improve children's academic and social success in school.
People with epilepsy with a wide range of disease burden should be encouraged to participate in regular exercise to potentially improve quality of life.
Multi-level interventions targeting the general public, health professionals, caregivers, and patients themselves are warranted to reduce the harmful impacts of stigma.
Treatment with sodium channel blockers might be effective and safe in a subset of patients with CDKL5 deficiency disorder-related epilepsy.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Three interrelated themes and seven sub-themes emerged from the answers of the participants: seizure control, impact of epilepsy and attitude of others.
"The available evidence now identifies valproate as more clinically and cost effective than both lamotrigine and levetiracetam," Anthony Marson, MD, of University of Liverpool in England, said in a statement.
There was a relationship between anxiety and depressive symptoms and worse quality of life in persons with temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (TLE-HS).
