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 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.
Researchers looked at emergency department visits in the United States from 2016 to 2022 for children 18 years and younger whose first three listed reason-for-visit or diagnosis codes indicated epilepsy or unspecified convulsions.
This study did not test the ketogenic diet in children directly.
This paper is a review, not a new experiment.
This paper looked at 3 pediatric patients with GAD65 antibodies who were seen at Arkansas Children’s Hospital from 2016 to 2022.
This study looked at reproductive-age youth with epilepsy who were seen in pediatric neurology clinics at one epilepsy program in Edmonton, Canada.
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.