This hub covers epilepsy comorbidities, which are the other conditions that often show up alongside seizures (like ADHD, anxiety, depression, autism, and sleep issues). Plain-language research takeaways for families.
Often both. Shared brain networks, stress, sleep disruption, and medication effects can all contribute.
Track timing: New symptoms after med changes or dose increases may point to side effects.
If school is hard, attention/memory changes, or there’s concern about learning, yes, it can guide supports.
Sometimes. Improving sleep and stress can reduce seizure susceptibility in some people.
Researchers used a nationwide Korean health insurance database from 2002 to 2013 to study whether people with newly diagnosed epilepsy were more likely to later be diagnosed with a sleep disorder.
This was a retrospective case series from one children’s hospital in China.
This study looked at whether living in a rural area was associated with different hospital outcomes for people admitted with a primary diagnosis of epilepsy and recurrent seizures in the United States.
This study looked at reproductive-age youth with epilepsy who were seen in pediatric neurology clinics at one epilepsy program in Edmonton, Canada.
This paper was a review of published literature on interictal psychosis in people with epilepsy, with eligible articles sorted into case reports and non-case reports.
Researchers looked at a rare inherited neurometabolic disorder called succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency (SSADHD), which is caused by variants in the ALDH5A1 gene.
Researchers tested whether a risk-stratified care pathway could be added to routine epilepsy care for adults who also had clinically relevant symptoms of depression or anxiety.
Researchers looked at whether changes in depressive symptoms, epilepsy self-efficacy, and perceived stigma helped explain the association between a program called SMART and epilepsy self-management.
This study looked at whether the brain’s white matter differs in term newborns with genetic epilepsy in the neonatal period.