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 article is a conference summary, not a single clinical trial.
This paper is a review, not a new experiment.
This study looked at everyday functioning in children and teens with drug-resistant epilepsy who had palliative epilepsy surgery.
This paper was a systematic review, meaning the researchers gathered and summarized published reports about a rare genetic condition called ring chromosome 20 and the epilepsy linked to it.
This pilot study looked at whether circadian rest-activity rhythms and sleep parameters differ in adolescents with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) compared with healthy teens.
This study combined results from 39 published studies on responsive neurostimulation (RNS) in children and teens age 18 or younger with drug-resistant epilepsy.
This study looked at adults with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) who had a history of seizures and were followed at one center in Paris from 2005 to 2021.
Researchers looked at early real-world use of phenylbutyrate in children with 2 rare developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: STXBP1-encephalopathy and SLC6A1-encephalopathy.
No abstract was provided, so the study details cannot be confirmed from the source text.