Epilepsy News

Seizure first aid, epilepsy awareness bill signed into law - Legislation aimed at helping South Carolina workplaces respond appropriately when someone experiences a seizure has been signed into law by Gov. Henry McMaster.

Seizure action plans: Management and educational tools in epilepsy care - Historically, seizure action plans have focused on certain high-risk groups—such as people with drug-resistant epilepsy and people with a history of status epilepticus or seizure clusters. Neurology ...

New tech gives hope for a million people with epilepsy - Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. About three million people in the United States have epilepsy, including about a million who can't rely on medication to control ...

Using Seizure-Risk Forecasts to ID Best Time for Epilepsy Monitoring - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― Scheduling video-electroencephalography (vEEG) monitoring on the basis of personalized seizure risk forecasts may improve diagnostic accuracy, emerging research suggests. In a ...

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 ...

Wearable Digital Health Technology for Epilepsy - This review article presents two true-life clinical vignettes that illustrate how digital health technology can aid providers caring for patients with epilepsy. Specific information that would ...

Role of antiseizure medication in postoperative late seizure and survival among patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma: A multicenter retrospective study - CONCLUSIONS: LEV and PER after glioblastoma surgery were associated with a reduced risk of late seizure compared with LCM or no medication. LEV or PER may be considered as postoperative ASMs to optimize seizure control and potentially help preserve patients' QOL.

Hemispheric asymmetries in rodent models of neurological diseases: a systematic review - INTRODUCTION: Hemispheric asymmetries are a core organizational principle of the vertebrate brain, but they are still not fully integrated into the study of preclinical models of neurological disease. Although many rodent models naturally include lateralization through unilateral interventions, hemispheric differences are not consistently examined or systematically reported.

Pediatric occipital lobe epilepsy: A modern review of etiological classification, management, and outcomes - Pediatric occipital lobe epilepsy (OLE) comprises syndromes with seizures originating from the posterior cerebral cortex. Previously "benign", recent International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) updates reclassified these as self-limited or structural focal epilepsies, reflecting their complex causes and morbidity potential. The 2017 ILAE guidelines shifted from syndromic recognition to an etio...

Successful Treatment of Refractory Landau-Kleffner Syndrome with Memantine in a Child with GRIN2A Gain-of-Function Variant - Landau-Kleffner syndrome and related epilepsy-aphasia spectrum disorders are characterized by childhood-onset language regression, sleep-activated epileptiform activity, and frequently refractory seizures. This case report describe a boy with normal early development who developed progressive aphasia and non-motor seizures around age three, with electroencephalographic findings consistent with ...

New-Onset Convulsive Status Epilepticus Temporally Associated With Accidental Inhalation of Billygoat Weed (Ageratum conyzoides) Smoke: A Case Report - Status epilepticus is most commonly associated with structural, metabolic, infectious, autoimmune, or toxic etiologies. Plant-related toxic exposures are uncommon causes of new-onset status epilepticus and remain poorly characterized. Ageratum conyzoides (billygoat weed) is an invasive plant widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions and is frequently used in traditional medicine. W...

DECREASE study: A European pool-analysis of patients with significant reductions in concomitant antiseizure medications in cenobamate Early Access Programs - OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness and tolerability of cenobamate in patients with a significant reduction in concomitant antiseizure medication (ASM) in European cenobamate Early Access Programs (EAPs).

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.