Epilepsy News

ORLANDO — Caregivers of patients in the U.K. with Dravet syndrome would benefit from better communication, access to health care and increased psychosocial interventions, per a poster at the American Epilepsy Society annual meeting.

ORLANDO — Genetic testing, which is likely to identify underlying genetic causes for the condition, should be a component of diagnostic evaluations for adult patients with epilepsy, according to new research.

ORLANDO — For U.S. pediatric patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, disparities in surgical care exist with respect to age, socioeconomic and insurance variables, leading to differences in long-term outcomes, according to research.

ORLANDO — In cognitively healthy adults, the presence of seizures predicted earlier change from normal cognition to mild cognitive impairment but was not associated with change from MCI to dementia. according to research.

The FDA has cleared the use of a magnetic resonance spectroscopy platform to provide non-invasive measurement of brain chemistry and support diagnostic processes for a range of brain-related illnesses.

Yoga therapy significantly reduced the felt stigma of epilepsy along with improving anxiety and quality of life at 6 months compared to sham, according to research presented in Neurology.

As November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, Healio has gathered the most recent top stories about the condition that affects 3.4 million Americans each year.

In adults with epilepsy, treatment with a novel, oral adjunctive therapeutic significantly reduced monthly occurrence of focal-onset seizures across three doses compared with placebo, according to research in JAMA Neurology.

A Bay Area neurotechnology firm has announced the commercial release of a novel artificial intelligence-based software algorithm that continuously monitors brain activity of those with electrographic status epilepticus.

PHILADELPHIA — In older adults, the presence of white and gray matter abnormalities on MRI is linked to greater risk for late-onset epilepsy, according to a poster presentation.