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 focuses on the use of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) as a treatment for status epilepticus in children, which is a serious condition where seizures last too long or happen back-to-back.
Researchers studied three cases of infantile epilepsy, which is a type of epilepsy that affects babies from birth to two years old.
Researchers studied how pediatric hospitals in Canada use imaging methods, like MRI and CT scans, to evaluate children who have new-onset seizures.
A study was conducted to look at how effective Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) is for children with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), which means their seizures do not respond well to medication.
This study looked at different methods used to create consensus-based recommendations (CBRs) for epilepsy care.
This study looked at how Finnish adolescents with epilepsy transition to adult healthcare.
Researchers studied how certain brain activities change as children grow into adolescents and young adults, focusing on people with epilepsy aged 3 to 33 years.
A study was conducted to evaluate the Italian version of the Child Epilepsy Quality of Life Questionnaire (CHEQOL-25), which measures how children with epilepsy and their parents view the children’s quality of life.
This study looked at how memory works differently in people with epilepsy based on their sex and gender.