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 describes one child with febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), a rare condition in which severe seizures begin after a febrile infection.
This study looked at current practices and knowledge gaps in how physicians in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in Mainland China use prophylactic anti-seizure medicines for pediatric post-traumatic epilepsy after traumatic brain injury.
Researchers reviewed trio-WES/WES results from 886 individuals with unexplained epilepsy evaluated from 2018 to 2023.
This study looked at children with developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation in sleep (D/EE-SWAS), a rare paediatric epileptic encephalopathy in which epileptiform discharges become markedly activated during non-REM sleep and can be linked with seizures and neurocognitive regression.
Researchers looked at how different ways of analyzing EEG “functional connectivity” perform in seizure-related conditions.
This study looked at 80 fetuses found before birth to have one or more cardiac rhabdomyomas, which are heart tumors often linked with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC).
A small retrospective hospital cohort reported no cenobamate-attributed hypersensitivity reactions after brief interruptions. It does not establish a home restart rule.
This study was a systematic review and meta-analysis.
This Australian semiprospective cohort study looked at whether children exposed to one antiseizure medication during pregnancy had different thinking and learning outcomes than children who were not exposed to antiseizure medicines before birth.