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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 ...
Pediatrics in Brevard: Here's what to know about epilepsy, what to do if someone has seizure -
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-most common neurologic condition in the world. November is National ...
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, ...
Bridging the “Hope Gap” in Long-Term Epilepsy Management -
Dr Pavel Klein discusses strategies to address patient skepticism and improve seizure reporting to enhance clinical outcomes in epilepsy.
Why Early Detection of Seizures and Epilepsy Is so Important -
For parents, a child having a seizure is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. While many childhood seizures are brief and isolated, others are more serious and persistent. To make the ...
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 ...
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SeizureFormer: A Multi-Scale Transformer for Seizure Risk Forecasting from RNS-Derived Biomarkers -
We present SeizureFormer, a Transformer-based model for long-horizon seizure risk forecasting (1-14 days) using structured biomarkers-interictal epileptiform activity (IEA) and long episodes (LE)-extracted from responsive neurostimulation (RNS) systems. Unlike prior models based on raw scalp EEG, SeizureFormer leverages stable RNS biomarkers and integrates multi-scale CNN patch embedding, cross...
Specialization challenges and improvement strategies in pediatric epilepsy diagnosis and treatment under the leadership of tertiary hospitals: A multi-center cross-sectional survey in Chongqing -
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the current state of primary pediatric epilepsy care, providing evidence for regional capacity-building strategies.
Bridging adolescence and adulthood: Mood disorders in the epilepsy transition population -
OBJECTIVE: Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with epilepsy lack the knowledge or ability to appropriately manage their condition. As a result, they are at risk of poor medical and social outcomes (3). While AYA patients with underlying mood disorders are at risk for unsuccessful transfer of care, there have been limited studies assessing the frequency of mood disorders and associated risk fact...
Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers in pediatric epilepsy: A longitudinal cohort study -
OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological disorder in children, and approximately one third of patients develop drug-resistant seizures. Reliable biomarkers are needed to improve diagnosis, prognostic assessment, and treatment monitoring. This study evaluated four circulating microRNAs-miR-15a-5p, miR-106b-5p, miR-146a-5p, and miR-152-3p-as potential diagnostic and prognostic ...
Automated epilepsy and seizure type phenotyping with pre-trained language models -
CONCLUSIONS: By extracting expert-level epilepsy phenotypes from routine clinical text at scale, this approach transforms unstructured EHR data into a resource for longitudinal, population-informed epilepsy care. Automated phenotyping enables analyses of epilepsy trajectories and treatment outcomes that are not feasible with structured data alone, supporting future clinical and translational re...
TMS timed to interictal epileptiform discharges -
Interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) are pathological hypersynchronous bursts of electrical brain activity that occur between seizures in patients with epilepsy. IEDs are caused by transient brain states that are difficult to predict, making them a challenging neurophysiological and technological case for brain-state-dependent stimulation. Administering stimulation at IED onset may provide...
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