Brain Balance May Shape Movement Recovery After Surgery
This study looked at whether brain activity patterns in the hemisphere not operated on were linked to motor recovery after hemispheric epilepsy surgery.
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Perampanel May Help Some Children With Autoimmune Seizures
This study looked at perampanel, a seizure medicine, in 14 children with autoimmune encephalitis (AE) who had AE-related seizures or epilepsy.
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PRRT2 Gene Changes Linked To Infant Epilepsy In India
Researchers looked at 15 children with self-limiting familial infantile epilepsy (SeLFIE), a type of epilepsy that starts in infancy and can run in families.
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Sleep Problems More Likely Soon After Epilepsy Diagnosis
Researchers used a nationwide Korean health insurance database from 2002 to 2013 to study whether people with newly diagnosed epilepsy were more likely to later be diagnosed with a sleep disorder.
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Comorbidities | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics
PRRT2 Gene Changes Linked To Seizures And Movement Disorders
This was a retrospective case series from one children’s hospital in China.
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Rare Occipital Seizures Often Cause Complex Visual Symptoms
This was a systematic review of published reports about lateral occipital seizures, a rare type of focal seizure arising from the lateral occipital lobe, a brain region involved in vision.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | New Studies | Pediatrics | Status Epilepticus
Fast Vagus Nerve Stimulation Helped Control Severe Seizures
This paper describes one child with febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), a rare condition in which severe seizures begin after a febrile infection.
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Seizure Prevention After Child Head Injury Varies Widely
This study looked at current practices and knowledge gaps in how physicians in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in Mainland China use prophylactic anti-seizure medicines for pediatric post-traumatic epilepsy after traumatic brain injury.
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Six Children With Rare Gene-Linked Epilepsy Described
Researchers reviewed trio-WES/WES results from 886 individuals with unexplained epilepsy evaluated from 2018 to 2023.
