Epilepsy & Seizures
News
New, Updated Guidelines for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care
“In addition to advances in medicine, there has been a shift toward addressing overall well-being beyond seizure management.”
News
Adequate Transition of Epilepsy Care from Pediatric to Adult Is Often Lacking
“We are not doing as good a job with planning for transition as we should.”
Conference Coverage
With Proper Training, AI Can Be a Useful Tool in Epilepsy Management
“Artificial intelligence will not replace clinicians, but clinicians assisted by artificial intelligence will replace clinicians without...
Conference Coverage
Genetic Testing Is Recommended for Adult Patients With Epilepsy
Conference Coverage
Alzheimer’s and Epilepsy: Can Shared Molecular Mechanisms Reveal New Opportunities for Epilepsy?
The prognosis looks comparatively worse for patients who have Alzheimer’s disease and comorbid epilepsy than for patients who have only epilepsy...
Conference Coverage
Despite Few CNS Gene Therapies for Epilepsy, New Research Offers Hope
Conference Coverage
Poverty tied to poor cognition in patients with epilepsy
Clinicians should ask their older patients with epilepsy, many of whom live alone, about food insecurity and access to resources “not just within...
Conference Coverage
Genetic testing warranted in epilepsy of unknown origin
Genetic testing results may end a long and exhausting “diagnostic odyssey” that families have been on.
Conference Coverage
Sleep disorders linked to increased mortality risk in epilepsy
The mortality risk assessment needs include sleep factors, including sleep disorders and sleep disturbances.
Literature Review
RNA therapeutics will ‘change everything’ in epilepsy
“We now have the potential to change the way genetic epilepsies are treated by addressing the underlying genetic cause of the disease instead of...