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Two families’ experiences with epilepsy: Stress, love, responsibility
A few weeks after her youngest daughter Marie was born, Yssa DeWoody knew that something wasn’t right. She couldn’t put her finger on it, but when Marie began having seizures a couple of months later, Yssa and her family got an answer. Marie has Ring Chromosome 14...
Epilepsy and the family: Caregiver stress and sibling experiences
About two-thirds of people with epilepsy can have their seizures controlled with medication. Another small fraction undergoes successful epilepsy surgery. The others—which include millions of people around the world—must live with drug-resistant epilepsy. Still more...
Better seizure control with ketogenic diet in infants with genetic epilepsy
Ketogenic diet could start earlier in infants as young as 3 weeks old Infants and young children with epilepsy due to a confirmed genetic abnormality had a better response to treatment with ketogenic diet compared to patients with other types of epilepsy, according to...
Breaching the brain’s defense causes epilepsy
Scientific study proves the relevance of glial cells for epileptic seizures and shows potential for new therapies The study investigated epileptic seizures in zebrafish - a widely used model organism for modelling human brain physiology. Zebrafish contains the same...
The Impact of Seizure Disorders
Affecting 3.4 million individuals in the United States, epilepsy is a complex neurological condition that is characterized by recurrent seizures.1-3 An epilepsy diagnosis requires 2 unprovoked seizures (or 1 unprovoked seizure with the likelihood of more) not...
Fatty foods increase CBD absorption, finds new research
In 2018 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) passed its stamp of approval on oral capsules of cannabidiol (CBD) for the treatment of seizures. However, nobody quite knew at the time what effect food would have on its absorption. CBD is the second-largest active...
Diazepam Buccal Film Beneficial in Refractory Epilepsy With Seizure Clusters
Aquestive Therapeutics announced topline results from the recently completed single dose crossover study that evaluated diazepam buccal film (Libervant) which is under investigation for the management of patients with refractory epilepsy who require treatment to...
Beyond medication: new advances in pediatric epilepsy
Despite the development of new epilepsy medications, approximately one-third of pediatric patients with epilepsy remain medically refractory. While anti-seizure drugs remain the mainstay of treatment, efforts are underway to expand nonpharmaceutical options to...
Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy: How Ketosis Can Help Reduce Seizures
Ketogenic diets have caught the imagination of the public. Many people swear by the ketogenic diet benefits. We are going to let you know about the ketogenic diet and its amazing benefits in decreasing seizures in epilepsy. The ketogenic diet and epilepsy are not...
DNA sequencing study suggests common genetic basis for epilepsy
Epilepsy is one of the most widespread neurological disorders, but relatively little is known about the genes involved in the more common types. By examining all the genes of over 17,000 people, an international research group has found that more and less severe forms...
Statistical analyses reveal the shape of epileptic seizures
Pyramidal graphs resulting from statistical analyses of EEG recordings can improve our understanding of epileptic seizures. PHOTO: Yuan Wang (left) and Hernando Ombao discuss their statistical models. Credit: KAUST A statistical approach squeezes more detailed...
Can eating coriander prevent seizures?
"This specific discovery is important as it may lead to more effective use of cilantro as an anticonvulsant, or to modifications of dodecenal to develop safer and more effective anti-convulsant drugs." Eating coriander can prevent epileptic fits and other seizures,...
Diamond implants could control epileptic seizures
For people with epilepsy, it's not just the severity of seizures that's a problem: their unpredictability also takes a psychological toll. Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a brain implant that could be used to predict when an epileptic seizure...
New Device for Epilepsy Treatment
Treatments for epilepsy and seizures are about to make a major advancement. That is because the team at Engage Therapeutics has been developing a new tool to help with the delivery of medication to help with seizures. Called Staccato Alprazolam, it functions like an...
Mysterious Sunflower syndrome
Emma Paven had never met anyone with the mysterious syndrome she has lived with since she was 9 years old. Then a few months ago, while walking by a first-grade classroom in the school where she’s a teacher’s aide, the 19-year-old Hingham resident saw a little girl on...
What are the symptoms of autism in a 3-year-old?
Parents and caregivers who notice particular changes or challenges in a 3-year-old may wonder if these could indicate autism. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects approximately 1 in 59 children. ASD covers a range of conditions that doctors used to believe...
Persons With Alzheimer’s Disease More Likely To Experience Recurring Epileptic Seizures
Clinicians Should Monitor and Treat Seizures in Persons with Dementia FROM THE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2019 Individuals living with Alzheimer's disease experience epileptic seizures up to six-and-a-half times more often than people without...
The Rise of Intranasal Treatments in Epilepsy
The use of nasal sprays for the treatment of epilepsy has gained considerable attention lately. At this past May's American Academy of Neurology (AAN) meeting, Washington University epileptologist R. Edward Hogan, MD, presented two posters outlining the use of...
When Epilepsy Is Fatal
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, the hallmark of which is unprovoked seizures. It affects people of all ages, though it’s more common among young children and older people. Death from epilepsy is rare. Even the leading cause of death among people with...
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES): prevalence, impact and management strategies
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is a rare catastrophic epileptic encephalopathy with a yet undefined etiology, affecting healthy children. It is characterized by acute manifestation of recurrent seizures or refractory status epilepticus preceded by...
