Epilepsy

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]

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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.

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Following the publication of 2 reviews from the International League Against Epilepsy Task Force on Stigma in Epilepsy, Joan K. Austin, PhD, RN, FAAN, spoke on the need to better understand this issue and address it in clinical practice.

Imad Najm, MD, provided commentary on the long-term efforts needed to understand the origins of neurological brain diseases and his desire to copy the success of the cardiovascular field.

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

Joan K. Austin, PhD, RN, FAAN, commented on this issue within the field, discussing key findings from 2 recent reviews completed by the International League Against Epilepsy Task Force on Stigma in Epilepsy.

The director of Cleveland Clinic’s Epilepsy Center discussed the currently known overlap between neurological diseases and the need to identify causative biomarkers. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

With the physician deficit projected to grow larger within a decade, this global challenge has become a major focus of large organizations and medical societies.