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 whether children had a higher chance of neurodevelopmental disorders if their father used valproate during the 3 months before conception, which is the time period used in the study to represent spermatogenesis.
This study looked at how often genetic testing was used in people being evaluated for epilepsy surgery at one tertiary epilepsy center in Finland over about 10 years.
This study did not follow real children in a trial.
This study followed children in Zambia who had severe malaria with neurologic symptoms.
This study looked at how pediatric neurologists in Japan report using and prescribing rescue medicine before a child reaches the hospital for status epilepticus, which is a seizure emergency.
This study looked at long-term seizure outcomes after epilepsy surgery in children with drug-resistant epileptic spasms.
This study looked at thinking skills and adaptive functioning in people with Lafora disease, a rare and severe form of progressive myoclonus epilepsy.
This study reviewed research on whether music interventions might help people with epilepsy with seizure outcomes or abnormal brain-wave events.
This study looked at adults with cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs), which are abnormal blood vessel clusters in the brain that are frequently associated with drug-resistant epilepsy.