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.
Researchers looked at whether checking the quality of pulse signals from a wearable light sensor, called photoplethysmography (PPG), could improve seizure detection.
This study looked at perampanel, a seizure medicine, used as the first and only seizure medicine for children with epilepsy.
This study looked at how paroxysmal events appear in children and young people, and whether certain visible features may be more common in epileptic or non-epileptic events.
This paper was a review of reviews.
This study looked at brain connection patterns in children and young adults with epilepsy caused by focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), which the abstract describes as the most common cause of drug-resistant epilepsy in children.
This study looked at whether early brain tests could help identify which babies might later develop epilepsy after a neonatal stroke.
This study looked at whether clinicians could recognize infantile epileptic spasms from smartphone videos, and whether a short teaching session plus clinical history would improve accuracy.
This report described one child with a neurodevelopmental disorder linked to a TBL1XR1 gene variant.
This study reviewed clinical guidelines for infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS) from around the world.