In India, the Community Interventions for Epilepsy (CIFE) trial centers on home-based visits by social health workers. In impoverished areas of the country, as many as 90% of people with epilepsy do not get treatment.
Surgery can cure epilepsy, but it’s rarely used. In the United States, only about 1% of people with epilepsy will ever be evaluated for surgery, and fewer than that undergo it. At the same time, some centers oversell surgery, offering it to patients without fully explaining the consequences.
Though Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy have long been considered separate conditions, research is suggesting they could be related in certain ways. ILAE talks with Dr. Andrew Cole, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Epilepsy Service and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School.
If you have epilepsy, should you stop drinking coffee? ILAE speaks with researcher Astrid Nehlig, who reviewed the latest research at the 2018 European Congress on Epileptology in Vienna.
Research is starting to connect the dots between Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy. What does the future hold?
Prolonged seizures can cause neurological damage; about 1 in 5 cases is fatal. How is this condition identified and treated, and what new treatment options are on the horizon?
In an Oregon study, nearly half of people with epilepsy received CT scans or other neuroimaging during a visit to the emergency department. Is imaging overused? When does someone with epilepsy require emergency care?
Seizures are more common during the first month of life than at any other time. Yet research on neonatal seizures lags behind. What causes these seizures and how can they be identified and treated successfully?
In some East Asian languages, the term for "epilepsy" is related to madness, or to animals. The social costs are high. Could traditional Chinese philosophy be reinterpreted to reduce the stigma of epilepsy?
Pediatric epilepsy specialists are rare; children with epilepsy are not. So in 2005, the British Paediatric Neurology Association established a training course for all health care professionals to improve pediatric epilepsy care around the world.
An easy and inexpensive test could one day allow clinicians to quickly identify epilepsy patients at risk of carbamazepine hypersensitivity. The technology can be customized to other alleles and is applicable to other gene diagnostics, including pathogen detection.
In the past three decades, more than 15 new drugs have been approved to treat seizures. Yet data from a longitudinal, single-center study show that people with epilepsy are no more likely to find success with new drugs as they did with older ones.
It’s been used for medicinal purposes for more than 4,000 years and was the basis for one of the newest epilepsy drugs on the market. Does medical marijuana have a place in epilepsy treatment?
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