Probiotic supplementation may have anti-seizure effect by reducing proinflammatory cytokine and nitric oxide levels in epileptic rat brain.
Ketogenic Diet
These cases highlight the ketogenic diet as an effective approach to manage prolonged non-convulsive seizures related to Angelman and suggest that carbohydrate restriction may, by itself, have an effect on these seizures.
An interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers has designed brain-machine interface chips that, when implanted in humans, can reduce the rate of epileptic seizures.
Despite Fintepla’s active ingredient being fenfluramine — a medicine initially developed to suppress appetite — the data showed that children on long-term treatment had growth comparable to that of same-aged patients not on the therapy.
The Cameron Boyce Foundation and CURE Epilepsy have again joined forces to award The CURE Epilepsy Cameron Boyce SUDEP Research Award.
Ketogenic Diet
Study indicates consuming a Ketogenic Diet may reduce the effects of brain damage for those who experience a traumatic brain injury.
Genetics, Pediatric Epilepsy
A large-scale case-control study implicates genes critical for fever response and genes for communication between nerve cells.
A study published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience provides a remarkable finding that may help physicians diagnose epilepsy before the first seizure: People with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) have difficulty distinguishing the present from the past.
There is no effective therapy to prevent the development of posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE). Recently, we reported that administration of the antiseizure medication (ASM) levetiracetam (LEV) shortly after trauma prevented the development of epileptiform activity in two experimental models of neurotrauma.
