Pregabalin 14 mg/kg/d (but not 7 mg/kg/d) significantly reduced seizure rate in children with focal-onset seizures, when assessed using V?EEG, compared with placebo.
Doctors may be missing an opportunity to develop preventive treatment for epilepsy by not evaluating potentially “repurposable” medications clinically.
A round-up of news and events for epilepsy researchers and doctors in March 2020.
See what updates and discoveries our grantees have made as part of this initiative to find ways to study PTE and, ultimately, prevent it.
Researchers at the University of Bonn have now identified a mechanism that may explain one link between brain inflammation and epilepsy.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Patients prone to developing pharmacoresistant epilepsy might be identified as early as the neonatal and early infant period.
Moderate-quality evidence suggested that levetiracetam was not significantly superior to phenytoin in seizure cessation in patients with established status epilepticus.
Ketogenic Diet
Ketogenic diet therapies in adults has expanded in the last two decades and has been accompanied by a surge of new retrospective as well as prospective studies evaluating its efficacy in adults with epilepsy.
Study finds that suicide risk was highest among youth with epilepsy, among other conditions. In addition, the odds of suicide decreased among those who had more mental health visits within the 30 days before the date of suicide.
