Children referred to a first seizure clinic (FSC) see a neurologist epilepsy specialist within one week, according to a study ...

From a specialized diet to rapid evaluation, there’s a lot to know about treating childhood epilepsy. We share the latest from experts at The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s. Parents ...

For parents, a child having a seizure is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. While many childhood seizures are brief and isolated, others are more serious and persistent. To make the ...

Your child’s brain is an incredible electrical system. Billions of neurons firing in perfect harmony to create thoughts, movements, feelings, and memories. But sometimes, that delicate electrical ...

A systematic review found that intermittent diazepam and continuous phenobarbitone reduce the recurrence of febrile seizures in children, but the drugs have mild-to-moderate adverse effects. Because ...

The EMBOLD study of relutrigine (also known as PRAX-562) was testing the oral drug in patients with SCN2A and SCN8A ...

Persistent prenatal distress is associated with a significantly increased risk for epilepsy in offspring, a new study showed. Investigators emphasized that the risk was only slightly elevated, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Watching 8-year-old Piper Wood playing with her family, you might never guess that she suffers from a condition that racks her body. It's a severe form of childhood epilepsy ...

Recently published results from a 45-year follow-up study of childhood-onset epilepsy in Finland provide clinicians with updated guideposts for prognosis. [4] Because of the centralized Finnish health ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lacosamide monotherapy for the treatment of childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes was well tolerated and ...

A woman once diagnosed with epilepsy as a child returned to her neurologist years later. She had faced significant challenges ...

A new form of gene therapy designed to treat the most treatment-resistant form of childhood epilepsy appears to reduce seizures in mice. In a research article published Dec. 14 in Brain, researchers ...