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.
Researchers evaluated how useful next-generation sequencing was for identifying genetic causes of epilepsy in 250 children in Turkey whose epilepsy did not have a known cause.
This paper was a systematic review of randomized controlled trials on ketogenic diet therapies for people with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Researchers looked at what happens in the brain right as a seizure starts.
This paper described one infant boy with Ververi-Brady syndrome who presented with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome.
This paper was a systematic review, which means the authors gathered and analyzed results from earlier studies rather than testing one new device in patients.
This study looked at weight changes after starting zonisamide in children and teens with epilepsy.
This report described 2 pediatric patients with Dravet syndrome associated with SCN1A variants who were treated with cenobamate as an add-on antiseizure medicine.
This study looked at hemispherotomy, a surgery that disconnects one side of the brain, in children with drug-resistant epilepsy that developed after a traumatic brain injury.
This study combined data from 37 randomized clinical trials and 15 long-term extension studies in people with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, or DEEs.