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 developed and tested a computer model called EffiFormer to detect epileptic seizures from EEG recordings.
Researchers looked at how long it took children with drug-resistant epilepsy to get a presurgical epilepsy evaluation after they were recognized as having drug-resistant epilepsy.
This report describes one infant with global developmental delay and refractory epilepsy associated with a TBC1D24 mutation.
This study looked at kidney stones and kidney calcium buildup in children with drug-resistant epilepsy who were treated with a ketogenic diet (KD) or a modified Atkins diet (MAD) at one hospital clinic.
This study looked at tubulinopathies, a group of neurodevelopmental disorders caused by changes in tubulin-related genes and microtubule-associated proteins.
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.