Thinking Skills Often Stay Stable After Epilepsy Surgery
This study examined how intellectual test scores changed over time in children and adolescents who had brain surgery for pharmacoresistant epilepsy.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics
Two Brain Stimulation Options Help Children With Hard-To-Treat Epilepsy
This study looked at thalamic neuromodulation for children with drug-resistant epilepsy, meaning epilepsy that did not respond well to medicines.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Imaging & EEG | New Studies | Pediatrics
Child Brain Scan Template Improves Seizure Source Detection
This study looked at whether brain PET scan templates made for children, and matched to different ages, can help improve localization of the epileptogenic zone, the brain area where seizures start, in children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
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New Brain Scans May Better Guide Epilepsy Surgery
This paper is a review, not a new experiment.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics | Safety & First Aid
Perampanel Alone May Help Children With Epilepsy
This paper reviewed published studies on using perampanel alone (monotherapy) in children with epilepsy.
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Fertility Treatment Usually Safe For Women With Epilepsy
This paper was a systematic review about infertility treatment in women with epilepsy.
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Valproate May Control JME Better Than Levetiracetam
This paper combined results from 7 studies that compared two seizure medicines, valproate (VPA) and levetiracetam (LEV), in people with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME).
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Limited Evidence On Best Next Seizure Medicine
This paper was a systematic review of randomized controlled trials about what to do after the first antiseizure medication (ASM) does not control focal epilepsy.
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Ethosuximide May Improve Seizures, EEG, And Behavior
This study looked at adding ethosuximide, a seizure medicine, to treatment for children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation in sleep (D/EE-SWAS).
