While epilepsy surgery is a safe and effective intervention for seizure control, medical therapy remains the more prominent treatment option for those with epilepsy. However, a new 26-year study reveals that following epilepsy surgery, nearly half of participants were free of disabling seizures and 80% reported better quality of life than before surgery…
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Filed under: Epilepsy on February 9th, 2012 | No Comments »
While epilepsy surgery is a safe and effective intervention for seizure control, medical therapy remains the more prominent treatment option for those with epilepsy. However, a new 26-year study reveals that following epilepsy surgery, nearly half of participants were free of disabling seizures and 80% reported better quality of life than before surgery…
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Filed under: Epilepsy on February 9th, 2012 | No Comments »
In the U.S., KeppraŽ has been approved as adjunctive therapy for partial onset seizures in adults and children aged four years and older with epilepsy. However the UCB recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved to lower the age restriction to include infants from the age of one […]
Filed under: Epilepsy on January 28th, 2012 | No Comments »
Because of care advances, more infants and children with previously lethal health problems are surviving. Many, however, are left with lifelong neurologic impairment. A Children’s Hospital Boston study of more than 25 million pediatric hospitalizations in the U.S…
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Filed under: Epilepsy on January 21st, 2012 | No Comments »
Benign familial infantile epilepsy (BFIE) has been recognised for some time as infantile seizures, without fever, that run in families but the cause has so far eluded researchers. However clinical researchers at the University of Melbourne and Florey Neurosciences Institute and molecular geneticists at the University of South Australia have discovered a gene…
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Filed under: Epilepsy on January 21st, 2012 | No Comments »
New guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology will help physicians better choose seizure drugs for people on HIV/AIDS medication, avoiding deadly drug interactions and preventing critical anti-HIV drugs from becoming less effective, possibly leading to a more virulent strain of the disease…
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Filed under: Epilepsy on January 7th, 2012 | No Comments »
According to a large Swedish investigation published in PloS Medicine, epilepsy is not directly linked to an increased risk of committing violent crime. Although, individuals who previously experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) have an increased risk of committing violent crime…
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Filed under: Epilepsy on January 7th, 2012 | No Comments »
Children with a rather mysterious movement disorder can have hundreds of attacks every day in which they inexplicably make sudden movements or sudden changes in the speed of their movements. New evidence reported in an early online publication from the January 2012 inaugural issue of Cell Reports, the first open-access journal of Cell Press, provides […]
Filed under: Epilepsy on December 29th, 2011 | No Comments »
A large, international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has identified the gene that causes a rare childhood neurological disorder called PKD/IC, or “paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with infantile convulsions,” a cause of epilepsy in babies and movement disorders in older children…
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Filed under: Epilepsy on December 20th, 2011 | No Comments »
A combination of two common drugs, lamotrigine and valproate, is more effective in treating difficult-to control epilepsy than other anti-epileptic regimens, according to a University of Washington report published online this week in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology…
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Filed under: Epilepsy on December 17th, 2011 | No Comments »