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Preparing Adolescents With Epilepsy to Manage Care through Adulthood
Assessment tool helps doctors ensure adolescents and young adults with epilepsy have the skills and confidence they need to take control of seizures and health care. As children with epilepsy get older, managing their own care is critical to their independence,...
Most Parents Unaware Flu Vaccine More Important This Year
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's more important than ever to get an influenza vaccine this year, yet only 1 in 3 parents know this, a survey found. In addition, fewer than half of parents said their child's usual healthcare provider had strongly...
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University Developed Wearable Device for Predicting Epileptic Seizures
The system, based on machine learning algorithms for analyzing EEG signals, can predict upcoming seizures up to an hour prior to onset NeuroHelp, a newly founded startup that licensed and is developing the technology, is a portfolio company of Oazis accelerator,...
Polytherapy, improved medication adherence reduce risk for SUDEP in Swedish cohort
Polytherapy, especially the use of three or more antiepileptic drugs, correlated with a substantially decreased risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, according to findings from a nationwide case-control study conducted in Sweden. The findings, which were...
I hid my epilepsy for years because I was scared I would be picked on.
A seizure is hard to describe; it’s as if someone has hacked into you – like a computer – and, however much you struggle, has taken full control. You’re in a complete state of inability while your body goes through a turbulent episode. A few days after my eighth...
Silencing ‘poison exon’ eliminates deadly seizures in mice
A new treatment curbs deadly seizures in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, according to a new study1. A clinical trial is evaluating the drug’s safety in children with the syndrome. Dravet syndrome is usually caused by a mutation in one copy...
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Risk Varies in Patients with Different Types of Epilepsy
People with generalized epilepsy who have seizures arising from both sides of the brain simultaneously, have a higher risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) compared to patients who have focal epilepsy where seizures emanate from one area of the brain, according to a...
SIGNS YOUR CHILD MAY HAVE EPILEPSY
Epilepsy is a chronic health condition that is caused by abnormal brain activity, and that can result in seizures. According to the Epilepsy Foundation in the United States, 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy during their lifetime. In their latest report,...
Did You Miss Our Last Zoom “The Role of Neuropsychology in Children with Epilepsy”
What is Neuropsychology? How is it used in treating children with epilepsy? Watch the recording of our LIVE Zoom - Learn - Ask on “The Role of Neuropsychology in Children with Epilepsy” with Dr. Michael Westerveld, PhD, ABPP-CNMedical Director of the Neuropsychology...
Using magnetic resonance elastography to detect epilepsy
A new study uses magnetic resonance elastography to compare the stiffness of the hippocampus in patients who have epilepsy with healthy individuals. The technique can improve the detection and characterization of the disease. PHOTO: A FLAIR image, left, is...
FINDING LINKS PERIODS AND SOME DRUG-RESISTANT EPILEPSY
New research links more frequent seizures during the menstrual cycle of women with genetic generalized epilepsy with drug-resistant epilepsy, in which anti-seizure medications don’t work. The finding may help lead to tailored treatments. Women with a form of genetic...
Long-term brain monitoring technologies can benefit epilepsy patients
Today, the way a physician gets an idea of how many seizures a person with epilepsy has had is through the patient's own record of seizure activity in his day-to-day life. Despite all the technological advances in devices monitoring the human body, a patient's seizure...
Seizures during menstrual cycle linked to drug-resistant epilepsy
Study finds surprising connection in some women with genetic generalized epilepsy More frequent seizures during the menstrual cycle in women with genetic generalized epilepsy have been linked for the first time to drug-resistant epilepsy, when anti-seizure medications...
DEA Proposes New Rule For Regulating Hemp-Derived CBD
The rule also establishes that the FDA-approved medications that include CBD, such as the epilepsy treatment Epidiolex, are to be removed from Schedule V of the Controlled Substances Act. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday submitted a proposed rule...
Study focuses on genetic neurological disorders that develop in children over time.
A team of researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) affiliated with the CHOP Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGIN) further bridged the gap between genomic information and clinical outcome data by systematically linking genetic information with...
Early Blood Test Can Detect Baby Brain Damage Just Hours After Birth.
An early blood test could detect which babies deprived of oxygen at birth are at risk of serious neuro disabilities. Researchers, including one of Indian origin, have found that an early blood test could detect which babies deprived of oxygen at birth are at risk of...
Three Diets Cut Seizures in Kids with Intractable Epilepsy
Trial compares major ketogenic diet therapy methods Three major methods of providing ketogenic diet therapy reduced seizures in children with drug-resistant epilepsy, the randomized DIET trial showed. Median reduction in seizure burden was similar with the ketogenic...
In Epilepsy, Brain-Responsive Stimulation Passes Long-term Tests
Two new long-term studies, one an extension trial and the other an analysis of real-world experience, show that the RNS System direct brain responsive neurostimulator leads to reduction of seizure frequency in most epilepsy patients who had it implanted. Both studies...
FDA Approves New Indication for Drug Containing an Active Ingredient Derived from Cannabis to Treat Seizures in Rare Genetic Disease
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Epidiolex (cannabidiol) [CBD] oral solution for the treatment of seizures associated with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in patients one year of age and...
Poor Sleep Quality, Care Management Linked With Worsening of Seizure in Patients With Epilepsy
Amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Italy, a significant number of patients with epilepsy reported difficulties managing their condition, especially those who reported greater use of antiseizure medications (ASMs) forchronic therapy and poor sleep...
