This paper explores the nature of psychiatric comorbidities in people with an intellectual disability who have epilepsy.
This study finds that grafting certain cells derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells into the brain can help alleviate seizures, as well as improve brain function, in rats modeling temporal lobe epilepsy.
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Death certification in status epilepticus is likely to be an underestimate of the reality. Further efforts are urgently needed to determine the extent of status epilepticus-related deaths and all deaths in patients with epilepsy.
The trial achieved its primary endpoint of safety and tolerability and showed OV935 was generally well tolerated.
Genetics, Pediatric Epilepsy
A round-up of the top epilepsy research news from the past month.
RogCon and The Florey Institute of Neuroscience presented preclinical data on the company's lead program, RC-222, an antisense oligonucleotide designed to down-regulate SCN2A.
Pediatric Epilepsy
A retrospective study evaluating continuous electroencephalography (cEEG) of children in intensive care units (ICUs) found a higher than anticipated number of seizures.
Three FDA-approved drugs designed to treat other conditions significantly reduced seizure-like movement in zebrafish.
