AES: American Epilepsy Society
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‘Striking’ rate of mental health comorbidities in epilepsy
“We hope these results inspire epileptologists and neurologists to both recognize and screen ... adolescent patients.”
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More evidence in utero exposure to antiseizure meds safe for children’s cognition
“This is another encouraging piece that’s showing these new drugs are safe with regard to cognition.”
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Genetic tests prompt therapy adjustments in children with epilepsy
Most tests were negative, but positive ones usually led to changes in medical management.
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New insights into psychogenic seizures in teens
Adolescents feel pressure to be the best at everything. “They wanted to be good in athletics; they wanted to be good in academics; they wanted to...
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New laser therapy shows promise in children with treatment-resistant epilepsy
Of nearly 150 children, more than half of those who received MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy were seizure free at 1 year.
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SUDEP may explain 3% of all sudden deaths in children
SUDEP is rare, “but not as rare as we thought it was.”
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‘Worrisome’ rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children with epilepsy
These findings highlight the need to screen all children with epilepsy for psychiatric disorders.
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EEG abnormalities may indicate increased risk for epilepsy in patients with autism
BALTIMORE – A family history of febrile seizures, but not a patient’s history of febrile seizures, was associated...
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Staged hemispheric embolization: How to treat hemimegalencephaly within days of birth
“Neurosurgeons won’t touch them.”
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Comorbidity rates remain stable over 10 years in childhood-onset epilepsy
BALTIMORE – Patients with epilepsy are at higher risk of psychiatric comorbidity than are controls, and the rate of...
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EEG surveillance, preseizure treatment prevents TSC epilepsy, cognitive loss
BALTIMORE – “If you are not convinced to do early treatment,” at least “do surveillance with EEG. You will diagnose epilepsy earlier, and treat...
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High infantile spasm risk should contraindicate sodium channel blocker antiepileptics
BALTIMORE – Subsequent spasms are seven times more likely.
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Onset of pediatric status epilepticus may have a circadian pattern
NEW ORLEANS - Onset of refractory pediatric status epilepticus may peak between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
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Hippocampal abnormalities seen in epilepsy subtypes may be congenital
NEW ORLEANS – Imaging studies suggest that changes in hippocampal volume seen in these patients probably occur before birth and are not the result...
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Common AEDs confer modestly increased risk of major congenital malformations
NEW ORLEANS – The 5% overall rate is higher than the background rate, but is still considerably less than the 9% rate seen among valproate-exposed...