Pediatric Epilepsy
Treatment was found to be effective in more than half of the children diagnosed with generalized epilepsy and focal epilepsy.
A type of cell in the brain called “atypical astrocyte” may increase following trauma, causing epilepsy following repeated, mild TBI, according to a study by Dr. Oleskii Shandra and Dr. Stefanie Robel.
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Vascular and genetic disorders may predispose to both seizures and abnormalities of cardiac electrophysiology. Repeated and uncontrolled seizures may favor potentially life-threatening arrhythmias.
Ketogenic Diet
This Summer 2019 issue of the International League Against Epilepsy Epigraph discusses the gut-brain axis, the ketogenic diet and the connection between microbiota and seizure susceptibility
FINTEPLA for the treatment of LGS has previously been designated as an orphan drug by both the FDA and the European Medicines Agency.
CBD
Serious neuropsychiatric adverse events in adolescents are far more common with acute synthetic cannabinoid toxicity than with traditional cannabis toxicity, according to a registry study.
Beth Lewin Dean recently accepted the job as the chief executive officer of Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE)–which she says is the No. 1 non-governmental research agency for epilepsy.
CBD
Medicinal cannabis oil containing both CBD and a small amount of THC can reduce or end seizures in children with severe, drug-resistant epilepsy, a study by the University of Saskatchewan has found.
