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.
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Steroid Treatment Linked To Better EEG And Thinking
This study looked at children with developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy with spike-wave activation in sleep (D/EE-SWAS), a rare paediatric epileptic encephalopathy in which epileptiform discharges become markedly activated during non-REM sleep and can be linked with seizures and neurocognitive regression.
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Best EEG Analysis Methods For Seizure-Related Conditions
Researchers looked at how different ways of analyzing EEG “functional connectivity” perform in seizure-related conditions.
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Heart Tumors Before Birth May Signal Tuberous Sclerosis
This study looked at 80 fetuses found before birth to have one or more cardiac rhabdomyomas, which are heart tumors often linked with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC).
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Restarting Cenobamate After A Short Break Appears Safe
Researchers looked at what happened when people with epilepsy stopped cenobamate for a short time during a hospital stay for intracranial EEG testing, then restarted it at maintenance doses rather than slowly increasing it again.
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Brain Waste Clearance May Be Reduced In Epilepsy
This study was a systematic review and meta-analysis.
