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 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.
This study looked at perampanel, a seizure medicine, in 14 children with autoimmune encephalitis (AE) who had AE-related seizures or epilepsy.
Researchers looked at 15 children with self-limiting familial infantile epilepsy (SeLFIE), a type of epilepsy that starts in infancy and can run in families.
This was a retrospective case series from one children’s hospital in China.
This was a systematic review of published reports about lateral occipital seizures, a rare type of focal seizure arising from the lateral occipital lobe, a brain region involved in vision.