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 some children sent to a pediatric neurology clinic for “migraine” or “headache” might actually have self-limited epilepsy with autonomic seizures (SeLEAS), also called Panayiotopoulos syndrome.
This study looked at how specialized Italian neuroscience and neuro-rehabilitation centers organize care for people with brain tumour-related epilepsy.
This study looked at KCNT1-related epilepsy in infancy.
This study looked at fenfluramine, a seizure medicine, in children and adults with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs).
Researchers studied cannabidiol (CBD) in a lab rat model of malformation of cortical development (MCD), a brain development problem linked to hard-to-treat epilepsy.
This study looked at pediatric epilepsy patients at one medical center and compared those from English-speaking families with those from Spanish-speaking families.
This study looked at children with a rare brain abnormality called focal cortical dysplasia type 1 (FCD1), which can cause epilepsy that does not respond to medicine.
This retrospective, single-center study examined the genetics of complex febrile seizures in 233 children ages 6 months to 6 years at Wuhan Children’s Hospital in China.
This study looked at post-stroke epilepsy, defined here as one or more seizures occurring more than 7 days after a stroke.