Seizure Medicine Use Shifted While Costs Fell In Germany
This study looked at national prescription data in Germany from 2000 to 2024 to examine how often anti-seizure medicines were prescribed and how their prices changed over time.
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New Standard Helps Doctors Describe Seizures Consistently
This study developed a standard way to record and describe seizure signs and symptoms, also called epilepsy semiology.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | Imaging & EEG | New Studies | Pediatrics
Genetic Testing Found Causes In Many Children With Epilepsy
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.
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Lifestyle Changes May Help Reduce Seizures In Epilepsy
This paper reviewed studies on lifestyle changes used along with usual epilepsy treatment.
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Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | Ketogenic Diet | New Studies | Pediatrics
Keto Diets May Reduce Seizures In Hard-To-Treat Epilepsy
This paper was a systematic review of randomized controlled trials on ketogenic diet therapies for people with drug-resistant epilepsy.
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Switching Seizure Medicines May Ease Side Effects
This paper reviewed studies of people with focal epilepsy who were switched from oxcarbazepine (OXC) to eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL).
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One In Four With Epilepsy Had Functional Seizures
This study looked at people age 16 and older with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) who were admitted to one hospital’s epilepsy monitoring unit for inpatient video-EEG between 2008 and 2024.
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Emergency Brain Scans Rarely Help After Breakthrough Seizures
This study looked at how useful emergent non-contrast head CT scans were for adults with known epilepsy who came to the emergency department because of breakthrough seizures.
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Seizure Start May Briefly Disconnect Key Brain Network
Researchers looked at what happens in the brain right as a seizure starts.
