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July 25, 2018
CURE Discovery: Transplanting Inhibitory Neurons Can Reduce...
CURE Grantee Dr. Janice Naegele of Wesleyan University has been working on harnessing the brain’s own inhibitory power as a treatment to reduce...
October 2, 2018
Whole-Brain Connectome Maps Teach Artificial Intelligence...
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) neurologists have developed a new method based on artificial intelligence that may eventually help...
October 1, 2018
High Electroencephalographic Seizure Exposure Is Associated...
Among neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy managed with therapeutic hypothermia, high electroencephalographic seizure exposure was the...
October 1, 2018
Diagnostic Efficacy And Study Quality Of Home Video...
The diagnostic efficacy and study quality of home video telemetry and inpatient video telemetry are similar in paediatric patients. Home video...
September 28, 2018
Eisai Announces FDA Approval of FYCOMPA in Pediatric...
Eisai Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the indication of its antiepileptic drug FYCOMPA (perampanel)...
September 28, 2018
Clinical Trial: Low vs. Standard Daily Doses of...
There is thus the need to identify the lowest effective dose for treatment start. This background prompted us to undertake a randomized...
September 28, 2018
The Risk of Dying During Pregnancy is Five Times Higher for...
The risk of dying during pregnancy is negligible for the average Danish woman, but if the woman in question has epilepsy, the probability must...
September 27, 2018
Individualized Treatment Approaches: Fenfluramine, a Novel...
This short review summarizes the history of use of fenfluramine from the initial clinical observations followed by preclinical studies and...
September 27, 2018
Review Article: "Sleep and Epilepsy: Unfortunate...
Epilepsy-specific quality of life is not determined solely by seizures, but rather by factors such as a child’s learning, mental health, sleep...
September 26, 2018
Northwestern Receives $12 Million Grant to Advance Epilepsy...
Northwestern has been awarded a $12 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish an interdisciplinary...
September 26, 2018
Window Between Initial Presentation and Full Expression of...
Developmental encephalopathic epilepsies account for disproportionate amounts of pharmacoresistance, disability, and early mortality. LGS often...