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 31 children seen at one tertiary referral center in Kazakhstan for epilepsy or epilepsy-associated neurodevelopmental disorders who were found to have genetic findings considered clinically relevant or potentially relevant.
This study looked at whether epilepsy in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was associated with results from neurologic evaluations, including EEG, brain imaging, genetic testing, and developmental assessments.
This case-control study looked at whether a brain-related immune area near the skull shows signs of activation in children with focal lesional epilepsy.
No abstract was provided, so there is not enough information to say what kind of study this was or who took part.
This paper combined results from 20 studies of fenfluramine in people with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs), a group of severe epilepsy conditions.
This study combined results from randomized controlled trials that tested levetiracetam in children and teens with epilepsy.
This study looked at the genes of 10 adults with genetic generalized epilepsy that had not responded to medicine.
Researchers analyzed genome sequencing data from 14 patients with undiagnosed pediatric movement disorders.
This was a single-patient case report about SCN8A-associated epilepsy.