Increased Risk of Epilepsy in Older Adults and the Growing Population: Alice Lam, MD, PhD

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“I think it's really important that when we're doing patient-oriented research, we're thinking about the patients and their needs, and what's important to them, and trying to focus our research on those things.”

Patient-oriented research is critical to understanding more about how different types of patients react to treatments and allows there to be a more personalized approach to care. In epilepsy, more research that centers around patients as clinicians is needed, and can help learn more about the brain disorder through a different perspective.

Alice Lam, MD, PhD, gave a talk in about focusing on patient-oriented research with understanding epilepsy in a symposium at the 2022 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, held December 2 to 6, in Nashville, Tennessee.¹ In the session, she spoke on the importance of patient-oriented research in epilepsy and gave examples of opportunities where patient-centered research may be considered by clinicians.

Lam, assistant professor of neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, recently sat down with NeurologyLive^® at the 2022 AES meeting and spoke about the current research understudied in epilepsy. She also mentioned possible public health situations in the next few decades and the link with epilepsy.

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REFERENCES
 1. Lam A, Joesphson C. Advancing Epilepsy Care and Understanding Through Patient-oriented Research. Presented at: AES Annual Meeting; December 2-6, 2022; Nashville, TN, and virtual. Susan Spencer Symposium.