Genetic Testing Is Increasing Before Epilepsy Surgery
This study looked at how often genetic testing was used in people being evaluated for epilepsy surgery at one tertiary epilepsy center in Finland over about 10 years.
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Epilepsy Surgery Helps Despite Delays In Lower Income Areas
This study looked at whether neighborhood-level socioeconomic status was linked to when people got epilepsy surgery and how they did afterward.
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Surgery May Beat Medicines For Hard-To-Treat Childhood Epilepsy
This study did not follow real children in a trial.
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Epilepsy Screening Needed After Severe Malaria With Brain Symptoms
This study followed children in Zambia who had severe malaria with neurologic symptoms.
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Fast IV Valproic Acid Appears Safe In Emergencies
This study looked at whether valproic acid (VPA) can be given quickly as an undiluted IV push instead of the usual slower IV infusion.
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Why SUDEP Talks Still Vary In UK And US
This paper was a state-of-the-art narrative review, not a new experiment.
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Wearables Detect Most Convulsive Seizures But Miss Some Focal Ones
This paper reviewed and combined results from earlier studies on wearable devices that try to detect seizures.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics | Status Epilepticus
How Doctors In Japan Guide Seizure Rescue Medicine
This study looked at how pediatric neurologists in Japan report using and prescribing rescue medicine before a child reaches the hospital for status epilepticus, which is a seizure emergency.
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Earlier Surgery And Full Removal Improve Seizure Freedom
This study looked at long-term seizure outcomes after epilepsy surgery in children with drug-resistant epileptic spasms.
