Epilepsy

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 25, 2022.

Catch up on any of the neurology news headlines you may have missed over the course of the last month, compiled all into one place by the NeurologyLive® team.

The risk of autism after perinatal ischemic stroke and childhood stroke was 2.7-fold and 3.30-fold, respectively, compared with matched controls in the study.

ACNS Critical Care EEG Terminology 2021 is a series dedicated to teaching an understanding of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society's terminology. Check back for new episodes featuring special guests in the field.

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is optic neuritis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 18, 2022.

Steven Wolf, MD, and Patricia McGoldrick, NP, MPA, MSN, offered their perspectives into the value of awareness days for rare disease communities and the potential to improve the diagnosis of LGS.

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is sleep disorders.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 11, 2022.

The study had a goal to provide a personalized treatment approach, including ASM dosage changes to prevent seizure worsening and optimizing the balance of outcomes for mothers and children.

Infection-related epilepsy etiology, experiencing multiple types of seizures, and cognitive impairment were independent influencing factors on perampanel use retention.

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is nutrition in multiple sclerosis.

Neurology News Network for the week ending March 4, 2022. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 4, 2022.

The Distinguished Professor Emerita at Indiana University School of Nursing outlined the next steps those in the field of epilepsy need to take to address and tackle this ongoing issue. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Those with a history of status epilepticus, one of the identified factors associated with modified Atkins diet initiation, could be a target population for which to initiate this approach early.

The Distinguished Professor Emerita at Indiana University School of Nursing spoke on key takeaways for clinicians when it comes to helping tackle stigma, as well as the need to educate patients and their families about the condition overall. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The pediatric epileptologist at Cleveland Clinic provided insight on her presentation at the 2022 AAN Annual Meeting that evaluated ganaxolone in phase 3 study of patients with CDKL5 deficiency disorder. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

A group of experts in the care of patients with rare diseases—James F. Howard, MD; Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD; Darcy Kruger, MD, PhD; Veronica Hood, PhD; and Bruce Cree, MD, PhD—shared their perspectives on hot topics of treatment and management.

In recognition of Rare Disease Day, the NeurologyLive® team offered an extensive update on the state of care and treatment for a wide range of rare neurological diseases, including Kleine-Levin syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebral palsy, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and more.

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Neurology News Network for the week ending February 26, 2022. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending February 25, 2022.

The Distinguished Professor Emerita at Indiana University School of Nursing spoke on what the task force discovered in a review of literature on stigma from 1985 through 2019. [WATCH TIME: 7 minutes]

The Distinguished Professor Emerita at Indiana University School of Nursing spoke on the prevalence of stigma in the field of epilepsy and how it can affect the daily life of patients. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Investigators concluded that despite the linear relation between plasma concentration and dose, monitoring of fenfluramine is clinically relevant due to its high interpatient pharmacokinetic variability.