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 evaluated a brain device treatment called responsive thalamic stimulation as an add-on therapy for people with drug-resistant idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) who had generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCSs).
This study looked at current pediatric epilepsy surgery and presurgical evaluation practices around the world.
This study looked at very early epilepsy surgery in infants 6 months old or younger who had severe epilepsy linked to structural brain problems present from birth.
This study looked at polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumor of the young (PLNTY), a recently recognized brain tumor type linked with epilepsy.
This study built a real-world database of 167 people with epilepsy and examined how often genetic testing identified a diagnosis.
This paper is a case report.
This study combined results from 12 earlier studies to estimate how common drug-resistant epilepsy is in low- and middle-income countries.
This paper was a review of published literature on interictal psychosis in people with epilepsy, with eligible articles sorted into case reports and non-case reports.
This study was a systematic review and meta-analysis.