This hub covers pediatric epilepsy in infants, kids, and teens, including diagnosis, syndromes, development, school plans, and safety. New studies translated into clear takeaways for parents.
Usually when two appropriate medications haven’t controlled seizures.
Many families benefit and it depends on seizure frequency, medications, and learning needs.
Often yes, with smart precautions. Ask your neurologist or epileptologist about your child’s specific risks.
Clusters, prolonged seizures, breathing trouble, new weakness, or major regression.
This paper was a systematic review with pooled analysis of studies on deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the thalamus for adults with drug-resistant epilepsy.
This study combined results from 14 previous studies of benzodiazepines used for status epilepticus in adults in out-of-hospital settings.
This was a long-term case report of one girl with a newly identified variant in the ASTN1 gene.
This study looked at 61 children treated at one children’s hospital in China who had epilepsy related to fever sensitivity and met the study’s inclusion criteria.
This retrospective cohort study looked at children with super refractory status epilepticus (SRSE) who were started on the ketogenic diet at one center from 2009 to 2024.
Researchers looked at epilepsy, EEG results, and brain scan findings in 103 Norwegian children diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
This article is a review of neonatal seizures, which are seizures that happen in newborn babies.
This study looked at lissencephaly, a group of brain development conditions where the brain surface is smoother than usual because nerve cells did not move to the right place during pregnancy.
This was a small early study of prescription cannabidiol (CBD, brand name Epidiolex) in 12 children and teens with refractory epilepsy.