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 systematic review and meta-analysis examined neuromodulation treatments for people younger than 18 years with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Researchers reviewed records from 93 children with febrile status epilepticus admitted to one hospital between January 2020 and April 2023.
This systematic review examined associations between climate-related exposures and seizures in children age 18 or younger, including children with and without diagnosed epilepsy.
This prospective observational study followed 365 critically ill children with acute encephalopathy who underwent clinically indicated continuous EEG monitoring in a pediatric intensive care unit.
Researchers studied how often children were not recommended for epilepsy surgery and whether recommendations differed among epilepsy centers.
This systematic review examined medium-chain triglyceride (MCT)-based interventions for people with drug-resistant epilepsy.
This nationwide Taiwan study included 2,583,503 people born from 2001 through 2016 and followed through 2021.
This article was a critical review, not a new clinical trial, and the abstract does not report enrolling participants.
This narrative review brought together published research on early infantile developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (EIDEE), a severe epilepsy syndrome beginning before 3 months of age.