SUDEP
This study highlights the need for autopsy report review of potential SUDEP cases in research studies and assessments of the public health burden of SUDEP.
Environmental and physiological data, including sleep, weather, and temporal features, provide significant predictive information on upcoming seizures.
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This app, now validated by experts, provides an objective, reproducible method for selecting antiseizure medication that accounts for relevant clinical features.
Pediatric Epilepsy
In children with cerebral palsy, particular attention should be paid to the early identification and treatment of comorbid epilepsy.
SUDEP
Most child neurologists do not follow the current SUDEP Clinical Practice Guideline regarding SUDEP discussion. Reading the SUDEP Clinical Practice Guideline was a frequently cited reason among respondents who reported a recent change in discussion practice.
Most respondents had stable epilepsy during lockdown, and prior adoption of protective measures against general infection might have contributed to avoiding COVID-19 infections. However, behavior disorder worsened in over one-third of patients.
We have developed a mouse model of severe, refractory cortical-onset status epilepticus, consisting of convulsions merging into a coma, EEG patterns of cortical seizures, and injury, with evidence of widespread neocortical edema and damage.
Pediatric Epilepsy
A multiple stakeholder group developed clinical common data elements (CDEs) for routine care of children with epilepsy. Clinical CDEs are foundational for learning health care systems, a data?driven approach to health care focused on continuous improvement of outcomes.
