Epilepsy News

Teen with epilepsy dies after seizure leads to cardiac arrest: 'There was no warning' - “We had no idea she could die just like that,” James Hardwick said of his daughter Ellie ...

Seizure Burden in Resistant Epilepsy May Ease With the Tincture of Time - Nearly 70% of patients with focal treatment-resistant epilepsy (FTRE) experience fewer seizures over time, new results of a multicenter study showed. However, the improvements occurred independent of ...

Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure - Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3.4 million people in the United States have epilepsy, so it is a relatively common diagnosis. In fact, it is the fourth ...

First seizure clinic provides visit, pediatric epilepsy diagnosis in less than a week - Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model expedites access to specialists after a first seizure. The mean time between the referral and the ...

Understanding epilepsy: Seven ways to respond to an epileptic seizure - At the forefront of epilepsy research and treatment is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, a collaborative initiative between the UAB Department of Neurology and UAB Hospital, ...

Mechanistically informed circulating biomarkers are associated with acquired epilepsy after neonatal brain injury - CONCLUSIONS: Across two cohorts, mechanistically informed biomarkers were associated with acquired epilepsy after neonatal seizures. IL-1β, UCHL1, and GH reflect inflammation, neuronal injury, and impaired trophic signaling, while circulating miRNAs provide complementary mechanistic insight. Findings support a translational biomarker panel and highlight inflammation as a biologically plausible ...

Clinical characteristics and prognosis of focal cortical dysplasia with epilepsy in children - CONCLUSION: Most children with FCD-related epilepsy in this cohort achieved favorable postoperative outcomes. Epileptogenic focus resection, FCD type II pathology, and temporal lobe lesion location were identified as independent factors associated with good prognosis.

Novel Smartphone-Based Screening Tool for Absence Seizures in Pediatric Settings: A Comparative Study With Video EEG - CONCLUSIONS: The Eysz HV Recorder is an accurate tool with high sensitivity and specificity for identifying absence seizures, which could aid clinicians in differentiating epileptic from nonepileptic staring spells.

Temporal trends, regional inequalities, and economic burden of epilepsy-related hospitalizations in brazil, 2010-2024: a nationwide ecological time-series analysis - CONCLUSION: Epilepsy-related hospitalizations represent a growing and uneven burden in Brazil. Increasing hospitalization rates and rising in-hospital mortality highlight persistent gaps in both acute and outpatient care. These findings underscore the need for targeted strategies to reduce regional disparities and improve epilepsy management, particularly among older adults.

Arterial spin labeling in pediatric epilepsy in the emergency setting: clinical predictors of diagnostic yield and optimal acquisition time - CONCLUSIONS: ASL can be useful in rapidly identifying focal seizure in emergency setting. Timely acquisition of ASL is crucial as cerebral perfusion changes are often transient, with potentially shorter time for hypoperfusion.

Investigation of the role of HSP70 immunohistochemical staining method to the diagnosis of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in autopsies - CONCLUSION: HSP70 staining of the hippocampus demonstrated significantly higher staining across all subtypes in SUDEP cases. The results indicate that HSP70 immunohistochemical staining provides significant support for SUDEP diagnosis and could be employed as an ancillary staining method in forensic medicine practices.

Brain signal irregularity may provide clues to understanding epileptic process - Researchers propose a new method to differentiate signals from the epileptic focus from those recorded in other parts of the brain without the presence of an epileptic seizure. This technique may help detect epilepsy-induced features from these signals much quicker than conventional analysis techniques.

Breakthrough tech enables seizure localization in minutes - New research introduces a novel network analysis technology that uses minimally invasive resting state electrophysiological recordings to localize seizure onset brain regions and predict seizure outcomes in just 10 minutes.

Antidepressant use during pregnancy not linked to epilepsy in children - A new study suggests that antidepressant use by mothers during the first trimester of pregnancy does not increase the chances of epilepsy and seizures in babies.