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.
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Many Children With Epilepsy Have Other Conditions
This study looked at how common neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and sleep conditions were, alone and in combination, among children with “active” epilepsy.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics
Brain Device Reduced Seizures For Many Children With LGS
This study looked at outcomes of responsive neurostimulation (RNS) in people with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), a severe epilepsy that is often hard to control with medicine.
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Epilepsy Transition Clinic Helped Teens Move To Adult Care
This pilot evaluation looked at a new “Epilepsy Transition Clinic” started in 2023 at one institution for young people moving from pediatric epilepsy care to adult epilepsy care.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | New Studies | Pediatrics | SUDEP
Brain Stimulation Linked To Lower Sudden Death Risk In Epilepsy
This paper was a systematic review, which means the authors gathered and combined results from earlier studies.
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Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Ketogenic Diet | New Studies | Pediatrics | Status Epilepticus
Ketogenic Diet Guidance For Children With Severe ICU Seizures
This paper did not test the ketogenic diet in a new group of children.
