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 how effective and safe the ketogenic diet therapy (KDT) is for infants under two years old who have epilepsy that does not respond to medications.
Researchers studied children with a type of epilepsy called self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS) to see how their brain activity changes over time.
This study looked at children born to women with epilepsy to see if they have a higher genetic risk for neurodevelopmental disorders, like ADHD and autism, compared to children whose mothers do not have epilepsy.
This study looked at how often psychiatric disorders, like depression and anxiety, occur alongside neurological disorders, such as epilepsy and multiple sclerosis.
Researchers studied how weather conditions, like atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity, affect the number of seizures in children with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE).
This study looked at how well children with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) are followed up by different medical specialists in a hospital in Paris.
This study looked at 177 children with epilepsy and specific genetic changes called copy number variants (CNVs).
Researchers studied infants aged 1 to 24 months who experienced their first seizure without fever or were newly diagnosed with epilepsy.
This study looked at the effectiveness of a tool called the 5-SENSE score in helping doctors understand epilepsy in children and young adults.