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 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.
Researchers developed and tested a computer model to help identify self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS), a common childhood epilepsy.
Researchers looked at quality of life and caregiver burden in family caregivers of people with Dravet syndrome across Europe.
This study looked at copy number variants, also called CNVs, in 219 adults with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) who still did not have a diagnosis.
This study looked at children with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) who had drug-resistant epilepsy and underwent epilepsy surgery at one hospital.