The FDA has approved the first nasal spray rescue medication to treat seizure clusters in people over 12 years of age and older with epilepsy.
An injured brain responds differently to stress hormones than a healthy brain, which is a key factor in the relationship between stress and epilepsy.
Pediatric Epilepsy
A new drug that inhibits neonatal seizures in rodent models could open up new avenues for the treatment of epilepsy in human newborns.
Gabapentinoids, initially intended to treat epilepsy, are now commonly prescribed as a pain killer to the general population, including to elderly patients with multiple conditions.
Brivaracetam is not associated with an increased level of anger in patients with either focal or generalized epilepsy, however an improvement in anger levels is possibly influenced by a good seizure response.
A new risk calculator can help identify those pregnant women at high risk of seizures and to plan early referral for specialist input, determine the need for close monitoring, and assess antiepilepsy drug management.
