Epilepsy & Seizures
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Thapanee Somboon, MD
Dr. Somboon discusses the relationship between sleep apnea treatment and seizure outcomes.
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Justin Gover
Justin Gover, Chief Executive Officer of Greenwich Biosciences, discusses the FDA's planned review of Epidiolex, a formulation of cannabidiol, for...
Conference Coverage
Adherence to Psychotherapy May Improve Outcomes in Patients With Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures
WASHINGTON, DC—Adherence to psychotherapy is associated with a 50% or greater reduction in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), improved...
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Does Treating Sleep Apnea Improve Seizure Outcomes?
WASHINGTON, DC—Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with positive airway pressure (PAP) is associated with better one-year seizure outcomes...
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ACTH and other standard treatments prove best for infantile spasms
WASHINGTON – Adrenocorticotropic hormone and other standard therapies have a significant edge in gaining successful responses in infantile spasm...
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Fenfluramine trials in Dravet syndrome yield highly positive results
WASHINGTON – Adjunctive fenfluramine reduced mean monthly convulsive seizure frequency by 63.9% vs. placebo and had no evidence of cardiotoxicity...
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Continuous bedside monitoring improved safety of intracranial stereotactic EEG
WASHINGTON – Continuous monitoring was associated with fewer unrecognized seizures and a shorter time to nursing response.
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Hippocampal features may predispose children with febrile status epilepticus to poorer memory
WASHINGTON – Patients’ age at time of febrile status epilepticus, its duration, or their sex did not affect memory task performance.
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Faciobrachial dystonic seizures require urgent immunotherapy
SAN DIEGO – There’s only a short window of opportunity in which to treat patients with immunotherapy to prevent cognitive impairment and brain...
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Analysis strengthens association between epilepsy onset, menarche
WASHINGTON – Adrenarche encompasses the period of risk.
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Sleep apnea treatment may reduce risk of epileptic seizures
WASHINGTON – Data support sleep apnea screening in patients with epilepsy.