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 studied rest-activity patterns in two genetic mouse models relevant to autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy: Syn2 knockout mice and Cntnap2 knockout mice.
This study looked at cenobamate, a seizure medicine, used “off label” in children and teens with drug-resistant epilepsy.
This study looked at children ages 4 to 18 with drug-resistant epilepsy who were being evaluated for epilepsy surgery, along with their parents.
This study looked at late-onset epileptic spasms, which means epileptic spasms starting after 12 months of age.
This study developed a standard way to record and describe seizure signs and symptoms, also called epilepsy semiology.
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.