Levetiracetam Linked To More Sleepiness And Fatigue
This paper reviewed published studies on neuropsychiatric side effects reported with levetiracetam, an anti-seizure medicine.
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Comorbidities | Devices & Neuromodulation | Epilepsy Research Summaries | New Studies | Pediatrics | Safety & First Aid
Antipsychotic Use Was Low Among Ugandan Children With Epilepsy
This study looked at how often antipsychotic medicines were prescribed to children and teens with epilepsy in Uganda, and which medicines were used together.
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Home Videos May Help Diagnose Seizures After Unclear EEG
This study looked at whether home or “stand-alone” videos could help after an inpatient EEG-video monitoring stay did not capture the event doctors were trying to diagnose.
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Brain Activity Before Stimulation Helps Predict Responses
Researchers looked at whether the brain’s activity just before an electrical stimulation pulse can help explain why the response to that pulse changes from one trial to the next.
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Frailty May Raise The Risk Of Epilepsy
This study looked at whether physical frailty was associated with a higher chance of developing epilepsy later on.
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Epilepsy Surgery Often Helps Seizures In Children With Sturge-Weber
This study looked at children with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) who had epilepsy surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital between 1993 and 2022.
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Brain Stimulation Measures May Help Test New Seizure Medicines
Researchers tested whether brain stimulation and brain-wave measures could detect the short-term effects of levetiracetam, an anti-seizure medicine, in people with generalized epilepsy.
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Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Imaging & EEG | New Studies | Pediatrics | Safety & First Aid
Brain Surgery In Babies Can Reduce Seizures
This study looked at hemispheric surgery in infants with early drug-resistant epilepsy caused by hemimegalencephaly (HME) or hemispheric cortical dysplasia (HCD).
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How Brain Targeting for Epilepsy Surgery Has Improved
This paper is a review, not a report of new patient results.
