New Brunswick, N.J. (October 28, 2021) – Combining electroencephalogram (EEG) data with clinical observations can help doctors to better determine whether generalized epilepsy patients will respond to ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

People with generalized epilepsy who have seizures arising from both sides of the brain simultaneously, have a higher risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) compared to patients who have focal epilepsy ...

J Child Neurol. 2004;19(8):571-578. Patients with an isolated visually induced seizure in special circumstances, with or without a photoparoxysmal response on the EEG. This group comprises patients ...

—The International League Against Epilepsy has updated its classification of seizure types in large part to clarify terminology, categorize certain seizure types as either focal or generalized, and ...

Jan. 21, 2004 — Compared with lamotrigine and topiramate, valproate is the most effective treatment for idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), according to the results of a retrospective study ...

A series of conceptual reconsiderations and therapeutic advances in recent years has resulted in meaningful changes in the classification, diagnosis, and treatment of epilepsy. The first step in ...

More frequent seizures during the menstrual cycle in women with genetic generalized epilepsy have been linked for the first time to drug-resistant epilepsy, when anti-seizure medications don't work, ...

SK Biopharmaceutical’s Xcopri (cenobamate) met the bar in a phase 3 trial that could support the company’s ambitions of ...

"Women with frontal lobe epilepsy have the highest risk for seizure worsening during pregnancy -- even with adequate therapeutic dose monitoring -- and need close monitoring during this vulnerable ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among 2,214 persons with epilepsy, 7.5% had MDD, and 4% had generalized anxiety disorder. Those on valproic acid ...