Epilepsy News

A retrospective cohort study of more than 200 patients with medically refractory focal epilepsy that examined seizure patterns identified a “high prevalence” of plural seizure cycles, including multidien and circadian cycles.

Children with epilepsy experienced more sleep-related problems such as night waking, parasomnias and sleep-disordered breathing than children without epilepsy, according to a meta-analysis published in Sleep Medicine Reviews.

A neonatal seizures task force established by the International League Against Epilepsy, or ILAE, published a new classification and framework for neonatal seizures that aligns with the ILAE’s 2017 classification of seizures and epilepsies.

An analysis of 51 plasma proteins associated with immune response identified four proteins capable of confirming a recent epileptic seizure or a psychogenic non-epileptic seizure, according to findings published in Neurology.

Pregnant women with epilepsy experienced “no meaningful difference” in increased seizure frequency compared with nonpregnant women examined during the same period, according to findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Data from implanted devices about interictal epileptiform activity over the course of days enabled researchers to forecast seizure activity in advance, according to the results of a feasibility study published in The Lancet Neurology.

Preliminary blood tests from individuals sickened by an unidentified illness in southern India showed high amounts of lead and nickel, but no evidence of a viral infection, according to the BBC.

Hundreds of individuals in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh became sick due to an unidentified illness, with symptoms that included seizures, nausea and loss of consciousness, according to multiple media outlets.

Findings published last month in Annals of Neurology demonstrated that preventive use of vigabatrin, an antiepileptic drug, positively altered the natural history of seizures in infants with tuberous sclerosis complex.

Preventive treatment with vigabatrin effectively altered the natural history of seizures among infants with tuberous sclerosis complex, decreasing the risk for and severity of epilepsy, according to results published in Annals of Neurology.