Epilepsy News

Children of women prescribed antiseizure medications for epilepsy during pregnancy did not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes by age 6 compared with children of women who did not receive them, according to new research.

A wearable, portable electroencelphalogram, or EEG, system will allow clinicians to rapidly review real-time seizure-related neurologic events in those with epilepsy, Epitel CEO and founder Mark Lehmkuhle, PhD, stated in this Healio video.

November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. According to the Epilepsy Foundation, the condition affects almost half a million people aged younger than 14 years in the United States.

In families with genetic epilepsy and febrile seizures, relatives who showed higher polygenic risk scores were more likely to have an epilepsy diagnosis along with a more severe phenotype, according to new research.

The Healio news staff received an APEX award in the category of Writing/Topics for work on the potential role of psychedelics and alternative therapies for mental health issues and other medical conditions.

Epilepsy was common in two urban Kenyan settings and diagnostic gaps were substantially high, demonstrating a need for targeted interventions, according to research in The Lancet Global Health.

NYU Langone was again the top hospital in the United States for neurology and neurosurgery, according to the latest annual Best Hospitals Survey issued by U.S. News & World Report.

DENVER - Cenobamate was effective in treating focal seizures administered as a whole tablet, crushed tablet or by nasogastric tube, Vijay Vashi, PhD, in this Healio video from the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.

Nocturnal hypoxemia and sleep apnea raised the risk for late-onset epilepsy even after adjustment for several risk factors and comorbidities, according to results published in Sleep.

The FDA has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy designation to a novel regenerative cell therapy to treat drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, according to the manufacturer.