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 analysis looked at implantable vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in people with drug-resistant primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures (PGTCS).
This paper was a review, not a new experiment.
This study evaluated whether the Persian version of the Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy (NDDI-E) is a valid and reliable tool for screening for depression in adolescents with epilepsy.
Researchers built a “brain-age” tool from structural MRI scans.
This study looked at the risk of major congenital malformations in babies born to women who used common antiseizure medicine combinations during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
This study looked at children with epilepsy related to focal cortical dysplasia (FCD).
This paper combined results from 13 studies on ketogenic dietary therapies (KDT) for refractory epilepsy in Latin America.
Researchers followed 186 children ages 6 months to 11 years in Chipata, Zambia who had confirmed central nervous system malaria.
This study looked at whether the time between seizure clusters changed over time in young children with epilepsy who used diazepam nasal spray as a rescue medicine.