Perampanel Helped Many Children With New Epilepsy Stay Seizure-Free
This study looked at perampanel, a seizure medicine, used as the first and only seizure medicine for children with epilepsy.
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Levetiracetam May Be Linked To Rare Severe Mood Changes
This paper reviewed published case reports about serious mental health symptoms reported in people taking levetiracetam, a common seizure medicine.
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Signs That Help Tell Seizures From Similar Events
This study looked at how paroxysmal events appear in children and young people, and whether certain visible features may be more common in epileptic or non-epileptic events.
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Epilepsy Surgery Often Improves Mood And Quality Of Life
This study was a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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What Makes It Hard To Take Seizure Medicines
This paper was a systematic review, which means the authors gathered and summarized results from many earlier studies instead of testing one new group of patients.
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Laser Therapy Shows Promise for Hard-to-Treat Epilepsy
This paper was a review of reviews.
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MRI Tool Helps Find Seizure Surgery Targets
Researchers built and tested a computer program called GATEZ that uses structural MRI scans to rank small brain areas that might be related to the part of the brain removed during epilepsy surgery.
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AI Tool Measures Brain Surgery Changes On MRI
Researchers developed and tested a computer program called ResectVol DL that automatically outlines the cavity left after epilepsy surgery on postoperative MRI scans.
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Brain Connection Patterns May Predict Seizure Spread
This study looked at brain connection patterns in children and young adults with epilepsy caused by focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), which the abstract describes as the most common cause of drug-resistant epilepsy in children.
