11/14/2018 /
A round-up of top epilepsy research news from the past month.
11/14/2018 /
Epilepsy and Alzheimer’s Disease appear to be associated. People with Alzheimer’s disease have a high risk of developing seizures—more than 80 times the risk of people who don’t have Alzheimer’s.
11/14/2018 /
Outcomes suggest an association of hypertension, diabetes, smoking, APOE ?4 allele number, activity level, and alcohol use with late-onset epilepsy.
11/13/2018 /
Selective placement of stimulation electrodes along the corpus callosum could be used as a patient?specific treatment for cortical epilepsies.
11/13/2018 /
In this cohort, the overall mortality of first?time nonhypoxic status epilepticus was >50%. Mortality of status epilepticus after discharge was substantially higher than in?house mortality and stabilized after 2 years.
11/13/2018 /
Adjunctive perampanel demonstrated a favorable safety profile and long-term tolerability in Japanese patients with refractory partial-onset seizures for ?316 weeks.
11/09/2018 /
A study found that thirty-eight percent of mothers of children with epilepsy had significant parenting stress.
11/09/2018 /
A research team has determined perineuronal nets modulate electrical impulses in the brain, and that seizures can occur if the nets are dissolved.
11/09/2018 /
Recent studies in mouse models based on UBE3A gene replacement or reactivation in neurons hold great therapeutic potential, including for the treatment of epilepsy.
