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Keppra® Approved By FDA For Childhood Seizures
In the U.S., Keppra® has been approved as adjunctive therapy for partial onset seizures in adults and children aged four years and older with epilepsy. However the UCB recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved to lower the age restriction to include infants from the age of one month and older with epilepsy. Professor Dr...

Neurologically Impaired Children Dependent On Children's Hospitals: Researchers Point To Need For Better Care Coordination In The Community
Because of care advances, more infants and children with previously lethal health problems are surviving. Many, however, are left with lifelong neurologic impairment. A Children's Hospital Boston study of more than 25 million pediatric hospitalizations in the U.S...

A Step Closer To Unlocking A Mystery That Causes Epileptic Seizures In Babies
Benign familial infantile epilepsy (BFIE) has been recognised for some time as infantile seizures, without fever, that run in families but the cause has so far eluded researchers. However clinical researchers at the University of Melbourne and Florey Neurosciences Institute and molecular geneticists at the University of South Australia have discovered a gene...

Guidelines Stress Caution When Combining Anti-Epileptic, HIV Drugs
New guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology will help physicians better choose seizure drugs for people on HIV/AIDS medication, avoiding deadly drug interactions and preventing critical anti-HIV drugs from becoming less effective, possibly leading to a more virulent strain of the disease...

Epilepsy And Violent Crime Not Linked
According to a large Swedish investigation published in PloS Medicine, epilepsy is not directly linked to an increased risk of committing violent crime. Although, individuals who previously experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) have an increased risk of committing violent crime...

Findings In Songbirds May Have Important Implications For Brain Degeneration In Humans
Colin Saldanha, a biology professor at American University in Washington, D.C., has always been intrigued by the hormone estrogen. Specifically, how the hormone that does so much (for example, it promotes sexual behavior in women but can also increase susceptibility to seizures) does not cause major cross circuit meltdowns...

Marinus Pharmaceuticals Experimental Epilepsy Treatment Shows Promise In Open-Label Extension Study
Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that its neurosteroid ganaxolone which is currently under study for the treatment of partial onset seizures (POS), reported positive data in the open-label extension follow up to the company's Phase 2 clinical trial. The data reflects the replication of the effects seen in the double-blind study...

An Answer To A Mysterious Movement Disorder Discovered In The Genome
Children with a rather mysterious movement disorder can have hundreds of attacks every day in which they inexplicably make sudden movements or sudden changes in the speed of their movements. New evidence reported in an early online publication from the January 2012 inaugural issue of Cell Reports, the first open-access journal of Cell Press, provides an answer for them...

Childhood Disorder Called PKD Linked To Genetic Mutations
A large, international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has identified the gene that causes a rare childhood neurological disorder called PKD/IC, or "paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with infantile convulsions," a cause of epilepsy in babies and movement disorders in older children...

Superior Drug Combo For Difficult-To-Control Epilepsy
A combination of two common drugs, lamotrigine and valproate, is more effective in treating difficult-to control epilepsy than other anti-epileptic regimens, according to a University of Washington report published online this week in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology...

Epilepsy In Children - Adverse Events of Invasive EEG, Study
According to an investigation led by Dr...

Seizure Damage Reversed In Rats By Inhibitory Drug Targeting Neurologic Pathways
About half of newborns who have seizures go on to have long-term intellectual and memory deficits and cognitive disorders such as autism, but why this occurs has been unknown...

Electrical Activity In The Brain Likened To An Orchestra
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) have developed a new method for detailed analyses of electrical activity in the brain. The method, recently published in Neuron, can help doctors and researcher to better interpret brain cell signals...

A More Ethical Way To Compare Epilepsy Treatments
Epilepsy drug-switching study shows that using more ethical control groups could be the way forward for testing both drug efficacy and safety For the first time, a new research methodology recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration has been used to demonstrate that converting patients from one anti-epileptic drug to another - in this case, lamotrigine extended-rel...

Causative Gene May Differ Among Patients With Dravet Syndrome
Dravet syndrome is a severe genetic epilepsy that appears early in life. About 75 percent of cases can be attributed to mutations in the SCN1A gene encoding the sodium channel NaV1.1. The remaining patients with this syndrome are without a definitive molecular genetic diagnosis...