Addressing Disparities in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Access
This study looked at how different factors affect the journey of young people with epilepsy who might need surgery.
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New Insights on KCNQ2 Disorders and Cognitive Impairment
This study focused on understanding how different genetic changes in the KCNQ2 gene affect cognitive abilities and epilepsy in a group of 90 patients from China.
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Improving Medication Adherence in Kids with Epilepsy
Researchers studied how well mobile health (mHealth) tools could help caregivers of young children with epilepsy stick to their prescribed antiseizure medications.
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LITT Offers Less Invasive Option for Nontumoral Epilepsy Surgery
This study looked at two different surgical treatments for people with nontumoral epilepsy, which is epilepsy not caused by a brain tumor.
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Levetiracetam and Sodium Valproate Show Similar Results for Epilepsy
A study was conducted to compare two medications, sodium valproate (VPA) and levetiracetam (LEV), for treating children aged 2 to 18 who were newly diagnosed with epilepsy.
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Comorbidities | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics
Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Can Improve Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes
This study looked at the effects of epilepsy surgery on children and teenagers who have epilepsy that does not respond to medication.
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Early Surgery for Epilepsy Can Improve Outcomes for Kids
This study looked at the outcomes of surgery for children with epilepsy caused by a brain condition called focal cortical dysplasia (FCD).
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EEG Abnormalities Common in Children with Language Delays
This study looked at children who have delays in language development to see how common certain brain activity patterns, called epileptiform discharges, are among them.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | Imaging & EEG | New Studies | Pediatrics
MRI Abnormalities Common in Genetic Epilepsies
Researchers studied brain MRI scans of 139 children with specific genetic types of epilepsy linked to four genes: SCN1A, SCN2A, SCN3A, and SCN8A.
