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Featured articles
A New Study Finds that Parent’s often Lose Sleep over Child’s Epilepsy
May 17, 2012Now we know this will come a surprise to many of you, but parents do lose sleep over their children's epilepsy. Parents of young children with epilepsy often sleep in the same room or the same bed as their child to monitor their condition, but the bed-sharing may be interfering with restful sleep for both the parents and kids, new research finds. In the study, published in the journal Epilepsia, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston examined the s...
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Epilepsy Surgery for Children expected to Triple in the U.K. over the next 3 years
May 16, 2012The number of children receiving brain surgery for epilepsy is set to almost treble (triple) under plans for a major expansion of services across England by 2016. Operations to remove or modify part of the brain can help patients with a drug-resistant strain of the illness - but currently only 125 children a year (In the UK) benefit from the specialist surgery. Great Ormond Street Hospital is the main centre performing these procedures, but from November existing services will be de...
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Anti-epilepsy drug phenobarbital stunts neuronal growth
May 14, 2012Could a Georgetown University Medical Center study of adverse effects of phenobarbital on brain synapses in rat pups help explain cognitive deficits in children treated with the drug after birth? A brain study in infant rats demonstrates that the anti-epilepsy drug phenobarbital stunts neuronal growth, which could prompt new questions about using the first-line drug to treat epilepsy in human newborns. In Annals of Neurology EarlyView posted online May 11, researchers at Georgetown U...
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Energy Drinks Causing Seizures & Death!
May 11, 2012You could call it an energy crisis. In the last four years alone, ER visits associated with non-alcoholic energy drinks increased by about 12,000. There have been more than one-thousand reported cases of energy drink overdoses and adverse reactions. Still, they’re flying off store shelves! "They were desperately trying to save him," Cheryl James, told Ivanhoe. "I mean he was 19 years old, you don’t die at 19, right?" Two months after he graduated high school, Cheryl James buried her see...
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Predicting Success Rates for Epilepsy Drugs
May 10, 201250% of Patients Seizure-Free After Trying First Anti-Seizure Drug Half of all epilepsy patients who are initially started on one anti-seizure drug remain seizure-free for at least a year, a new study confirms. Among patients followed for as long as 26 years, initial response to drug treatments strongly predicted future seizure control. Yet less than 1% of patients who failed to respond to three anti-seizure drug regimens achieved adequate seizure control on subsequent drug treatme...
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