Blocking MiR-30a-5p May Help Slow Epilepsy Progression
This study looked at how a small genetic regulator called miR-30a-5p may be involved in epilepsy.
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Blood Marker May Help Spot Depression In Epilepsy
This study looked at whether a blood marker called neurofilament light chain, or NfL, was linked to depressive symptoms in adults with epilepsy.
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Epilepsy Linked To Higher Tau And Faster Aging
This study looked at whether people with epilepsy have higher levels of tau, a protein linked to brain disease, even when they do not have dementia.
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Earlier Epilepsy Surgery May Improve Seizure Control In Children
This study looked at children with epilepsy who had brain surgery to try to stop their seizures.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | New Studies | Safety & First Aid | SUDEP
Brain-Responsive Device Cuts Seizures Over Three Years
This study looked at a brain device called the RNS System in adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, meaning seizures kept happening despite medicine.
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New Seizure Medicines May Better Target Brain Receptors
This paper was a review, not a new clinical trial.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics
Dual Brain Stimulation Helped Child With Dystonia And Seizures
This report describes one 8-year-old boy with brain injury from hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) who had both dystonia, which causes abnormal muscle tightness and movements, and epilepsy that did not respond to medicine.
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Keto Diet Helped Some Babies With Spasms
This study looked at the ketogenic diet, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet, in 74 children with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS).
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | New Studies | Status Epilepticus
Brain Monitoring Shows Delayed Seizures After Partial Surgery
This report looked at one person with hard-to-control temporal lobe epilepsy who had part of the hippocampus removed in surgery.
