Vitamin D3 in high doses was safe and well-tolerated in patients with epilepsy and never exceeded toxic levels, according to study results published in Epilepsy & Behavior.
Pediatric Epilepsy
The severity of febrile seizures following vaccination is no different to febrile seizures from another cause, such as from a virus, and the majority of seizures are short-lived, self-resolving, and don't require ongoing treatment.
Students hope their effort will someday aid patients with epilepsy which medications can’t help, but may require surgery.
A systematic review of bone fractures from generalized convulsive seizures and status epilepticus.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Absence epilepsy can be triggered by impaired communication between two brain regions: the cortex and the striatum.
Interictal dysphoric disorder (IDD) occurs in high frequency in people with epilepsy (PWE) with a substantial overlap of IDD with depressive and anxiety disorders.
Pediatric Epilepsy
Children with convulsive status epilepticus who undertook formal testing were shown to have significantly lower full-scale intelligence quotients and global memory scores from controls.
A retrospective, cross-sectional study has found that both BDNF and COMT may be associated with the pathophysiology of psychiatric comorbidities in patients with epilepsy.
This study shows the potential beneficial effect of vagus nerve stimulation in the treatment of patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy and a comorbidity of symptoms of depression.
