They showed in mice that low-frequency stimulation of specific brain areas could completely stop epileptic activity. Instead of using electric current, the researchers stimulated the cells with light.
CURE Epilepsy has signed on to a letter from a coalition led by the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance that asks the National Governors Association to prioritize people with rare diseases, including rare epilepsies, and their caregivers for COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
CURE Epilepsy urges everyone to contact their respective representatives and senators to recommend passage of The RISE Act (H.R.869, S.289).
Patients with epilepsy are not susceptible to contracting COVID?19 more than other individuals. Furthermore, COVID?19 in PWE is not associated with a more severe illness or a poorer prognosis. However, PWE and COVID?19 may present somewhat differently than others with such an illness.
Coffee consumption may be a protective factor for seizure-related respiratory dysfunction, with a dose-dependent effect.
SUDEP
Uncontrolled recurrent seizures, as described in refractory epilepsy, can give rise to high hypoxic stress in the heart, thus inducing hemosiderin accumulation as in IOC, and can act as an underlying hidden mechanism contributing to the development of a terminal cardiac arrhythmia in SUDEP.
Elevated post-traumatic epilepsy caregiver burden is persistent across the life span, suggesting that caregivers could benefit from counseling and targeted psychosocial interventions to reduce their burden.
This paper proposes a framework to develop a consensus-based classification system for cognitive disorders in epilepsy that will be international in scope and be applicable for clinical practice and research globally and introduce the International Classification of Cognitive Disorders in Epilepsy (IC-CODE) project.
