Epilepsia is the leading, most authoritative source for current clinical and research results on all aspects of epilepsy. It is the journal of the International League Against Epilepsy.
People with epilepsy had a higher risk of being hospitalized with COVID and of dying from COVID during the first 15 months of the pandemic, new research led by Swansea University and the University of Edinburgh has found.
Mar 6, 2024
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Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS), often called infantile spasms, is the most common form of epilepsy seen during infancy. Prompt diagnosis and referral to a neurologist are essential.
Jan 19, 2024
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New research by the Human Brain Project has found that in the brains of patients with epilepsy, changes in large scale neuronal activations can be detected in the brain's resting state activity, even when no seizure is ongoing. ...
Mar 15, 2023
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Researchers of the Human Brain Project (HBP) have published a new study in Science Translational Medicine presenting advanced brain modeling methods for epilepsy clinical care. The article, which is featured on this week's ...
Jan 26, 2023
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In patients with progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 1 (EPM1), abnormality of intracortical inhibition measured by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is associated with the magnitude of the genetic change, a new study ...
Jan 11, 2023
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Older age is now the most common time to develop epilepsy in high-income settings, and an evidence review led by a Monash research team has highlighted that older adults are at risk of new-onset seizures due to age-related ...
Dec 15, 2022
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Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have discovered a specific genetic variant in SCN1A, the most common genetic epilepsy, that leads to an earlier onset of epilepsy, with clinical features distinct ...
Nov 30, 2022
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West syndrome, the most prevalent type of syndromic epileptic encephalopathy affecting infants, is a devastating and often fatal condition. It is characterized by a triad of symptoms—seizures/spasms, a signature brain activity ...
Nov 3, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have developed a method to predict when patients with seizure disorders such as epilepsy might be at risk for a cluster of seizures. Seizure clusters are seizures that ...
Aug 26, 2022
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Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), sometimes referred to as a "pacemaker for the brain," involves a stimulator device that is implanted under the skin in the chest, with a wire that is wound around the vagus nerve in the neck. ...
Mar 25, 2022
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