Parental Involvement Boosts Health for Kids with Chronic Illnesses
This study looked at how involving parents in the care of children and teenagers with chronic illnesses, like epilepsy, can affect their quality of life and health outcomes.
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Comparing Surgery Types for Pediatric Epilepsy Treatment
This study looked at different types of corpus callosotomy (CC), a surgery used to help children with severe epilepsy that doesn’t respond to medication.
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Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | Pediatrics | Recent Research | Safety & First Aid
Nicotine Patches Help Reduce Seizures in Genetic Epilepsy
Researchers studied the use of nicotine as a treatment for Sleep-Related Hypermotor Epilepsy (SHE), a type of epilepsy that can have a genetic cause.
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Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Imaging & EEG | Lifestyle & Sleep | Pediatrics | Recent Research
Sevoflurane Enhances Brain Activity Markers in Epilepsy Surgery
In this study, researchers looked at how sevoflurane anesthesia affects brain activity in children with drug-resistant focal epilepsy.
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Understanding Illness Perceptions in Epilepsy Across All Ages
This study looked at how people with epilepsy understand their illness and how these perceptions affect their health and emotions.
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Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | Imaging & EEG | Lifestyle & Sleep | Pediatrics | Recent Research
Suspect GNAO1 Gene Defect in Movement Disorders in Children
Researchers studied a 9-year-old girl with a rare movement disorder linked to a mutation in the GNAO1 gene.
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Drug-Resistant Epilepsy | Epilepsy Research Summaries | Genetics | Imaging & EEG | Lifestyle & Sleep | Recent Research
Ammi Visnaga May Help Reduce Seizures and Inflammation
This study looked at the effects of a plant extract called Ammi visnaga, commonly known as the toothpick plant, on seizures in mice.
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Guidelines for Using New Anti-Seizure Medications
Researchers studied the use of third-generation anti-seizure medications in people with epilepsy.
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Gut Microbiome May Help Manage MERRF Symptoms
Researchers studied myoclonic epilepsy with ragged-red fibers (MERRF), a rare condition caused by changes in mitochondrial DNA.
