Epilepsy

Most epileptologists have a strong sense that AEDs are not a homogeneous group, readily lumped into a class for side effect evaluation purposes.

Generic medications are a source of major cost savings in pharmacotherapy.

Although generics decrease the cost of drug treatments, they may not always produce the same clinical effects as their brand-name counterparts.

The American Epilepsy Society held its annual meeting, "the premiere conference for epilepsy and other seizure disorders," in Seattle in December 2008.

It has long been known that the incidence of epilepsy in the setting of Alzheimer's disease is elevated.

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How often are you faced with the decision of whether to treat a patient with a medication that has produced positive results in one population and negative results in a second?

This groundbreaking study aims to create a national resource to guide neurologists in selecting medications that are more effective and cause fewer, if any, side effects than currently available options.

This symposium focused on monotherapy, polytherapy, and new AEDs on the horizon. The presenters explained that although monotherapy fails in approximately 50% of patients with seizure disorders or epilepsy, there are other alternatives.

Lately there has been a lot of research discussing the problem of neuro-infections and how they can lead to people to have seizures I was fortunate enough to talk with Samuel Wiebe, MD, director of the University of Calgary Epilepsy Program and chair of the North American Commission of International League Against Epilepsy, about this topic.

People who have seizures not only experience pre- and post-seizure symptoms, they become afraid and embarrassed should they have a seizure in public.

There has been a lot of press about The Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project (EPGP), the largest epilepsy study in history.

Congress passed AAN-driven legislation on Monday that will create up to six Epilepsy Centers of Excellence within the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Who would have thought a video game console featuring games with flashing lights could help treat children with epilepsy?

Epilepsy is an incurable neurological disorder that affects more than 2.5 million people nationwide and 40 million worldwide. There are, however, many treatments available that have shown to control the incidence of seizures.

Medical simulation allows learners to review and practice procedures and situations as often as required to reach profi ciency without involving live patients.

In an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's website with hundreds of pictures.