Epilepsy

The importance of addressing disorders of the brain cannot be overstated, and doing so will be essential to our generation and generations to come.

The chief executive officer of the Child Neurology Foundation provided insight on her new position at the National Health Institute’s National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Confounders such as parental characteristics, sociodemographics, and pregnancy-specific factors led to an attenuated risk of seizures and epilepsy in children whose mothers were on SSRIs or SNRIs.

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Since its approval for the treatment of medical refractory epilepsy in 2013, the closed-loop neuromodulation device has had its efficacy and safety confirmed in several pivotal studies and will now be assessed in focal epilepsy in the RESPONSE trial.

The chief executive officer of the Child Neurology Foundation discussed how her background in pediatric neurology will be used in a newly appointed NIH council position.

The chief executive officer of the Child Neurology Foundation provided insight on the ongoing efforts to make children with neurological conditions feel inclusive in today’s society. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Both fenfluramine dose groups showed significant decreases in generalized tonic-clonic seizures, whereas those on placebo showed worsening of their condition.

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The chief executive officer of the Child Neurology Foundation discussed the need to change conversations about children living with neurological disorders and creating more healthy environments for them. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The director of the pediatric epilepsy program at Boston Children’s Health Physicians shared his expertise with the challenges associated with diagnosing LGS, how the REST-LGS tool may help, and the need to collect more data.

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Catch up on any of the neurology news headlines you may have missed over the course of the last month, compiled all into one place by the NeurologyLive® team.

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Expert clinicians offer their insight on the associations between stroke and COVID-19, treatment for traumatic brain injury, the latest on aducanumab, priorities for research in migraine, and more, from the 2022 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting.

In the main matched analysis, associated noted before Parkinson disease diagnosis were motor (up to 10 years) and cognitive (up to 5 years) symptoms.

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Jacqueline A. French, MD, discussed the factors that influence the challenges in treatment selection in epilepsy, and how patient conversations and comprehension of heterogeneity can help in the treatment selection process.

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is epilepsy and seizure disorders.

The proportion of women exposed to valproate between the first and last trimester of pregnancy decreased alongside an increase in the proportion of women exposed to therapeutic alternatives such as lamotrigine and levetiracetam.

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Outcomes in TBI admission survivors at 24 months—including mortality, development of posttraumatic epilepsy, and use of antiseizure medications—were poorer for cases with early posttraumatic seizures after adjustment for confounders.

The codirector of Epilepsy Clinical Trials at NYU Langone spoke to the progress that’s been made in treating refractory epilepsy and her hopes for the future of drug development in this area of medicine. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Safety outcomes of the study demonstrated a lower risk of treatment-emergent adverse events and serious adverse events, along with a high risk of drug withdrawal because of adverse events for high-dose clobazam.