Real-Time Brain Signal Tool May Improve Epilepsy Surgery
This study looked at whether a computer system could find very fast brain wave patterns called high-frequency oscillations, or HFOs, during epilepsy surgery.
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Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | Ketogenic Diet | New Studies | Pediatrics
Genetic Cause Found In Hard-To-Treat Childhood Absence Seizures
This report describes one child: a 12-year-old girl who presented at age 11 with daily absence seizures that did not respond to multiple antiseizure medicines.
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Thinking Skills Often Stay Stable After Epilepsy Surgery
This study examined how intellectual test scores changed over time in children and adolescents who had brain surgery for pharmacoresistant epilepsy.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics
Two Brain Stimulation Options Help Children With Hard-To-Treat Epilepsy
This study looked at thalamic neuromodulation for children with drug-resistant epilepsy, meaning epilepsy that did not respond well to medicines.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Imaging & EEG | New Studies | Pediatrics
Child Brain Scan Template Improves Seizure Source Detection
This study looked at whether brain PET scan templates made for children, and matched to different ages, can help improve localization of the epileptogenic zone, the brain area where seizures start, in children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
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New Brain Scans May Better Guide Epilepsy Surgery
This paper is a review, not a new experiment.
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Devices & Neuromodulation | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | New Studies | Pediatrics | Safety & First Aid
Perampanel Alone May Help Children With Epilepsy
This paper reviewed published studies on using perampanel alone (monotherapy) in children with epilepsy.
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Fertility Treatment Usually Safe For Women With Epilepsy
This paper was a systematic review about infertility treatment in women with epilepsy.
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Valproate May Control JME Better Than Levetiracetam
This paper combined results from 7 studies that compared two seizure medicines, valproate (VPA) and levetiracetam (LEV), in people with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME).
