Epilepsy & Seizures
Conference Coverage
How Does Cannabidiol Interact With Antiepileptic Drugs?
HOUSTON—Cannabidiol (CBD) interacts significantly with clobazam, rufinamide, topiramate, zonisamide, and eslicarbazepine, researchers said at the...
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Which Patients With Epilepsy Can Safely Drive?
HOUSTON—Seizure duration and impaired consciousness may be important factors that affect driving performance, according to a study presented at...
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Parental Feelings of Helplessness Predict Quality of Life in Children With Epilepsy
HOUSTON—The degree of helplessness that parents experience about their child’s epilepsy is significantly related to the child’s health-related...
Literature Review
Why Do Seizures Sometimes Continue After Surgery?
Roughly one out of every two patients with drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy will not become completely seizure-free after temporal lobe...
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Cardiovascular Comorbidity Is Common Among Adults With Epilepsy
HOUSTON—Adults with epilepsy report cardiovascular disease more often than adults without epilepsy, according to research presented at the 70th...
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Age and Stroke Volume May Predict Poststroke Epilepsy
HOUSTON—Younger age and greater stroke volume are risk factors for the development of poststroke epilepsy, according to research presented at the...
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Epilepsy Armamentarium Continues to Grow
LAS VEGAS—Several newer antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are, along with new surgical options and nontraditional interventions such as medical marijuana...
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Reasons for noncompliance to ketogenic diet explored
HOUSTON – More than one-third of children discontinued the ketogenic diet prior to completion of a 3-month trial because of reported difficulty, a...
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First visit for tuberous sclerosis complex comes months before diagnosis
HOUSTON – Many patients who eventually receive a diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis complex present with related complaints for months, or even years...
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Machine learning beats clinical prediction of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery outcomes
HOUSTON – A machine learning interpretation of presurgical MRI studies did a better job of predicting which patients would have a successful...
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Add-on fenfluramine reduces seizure frequency in Dravet syndrome
HOUSTON – Low-dose fenfluramine was found to reduce seizures significantly among a small cohort with Dravet syndrome without the appearance of...