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Can Antihistamines Trigger Seizures in Young Kids?
“The benefits and risks of antihistamine use should always be carefully considered, especially when prescribing H1 antihistamines to vulnerable...
“The benefits and risks of antihistamine use should always be carefully considered, especially when prescribing H1 antihistamines to vulnerable...
SCORE-AI, the model tested, can reliably interpret common EEGs in real-world practice, supporting its recent FDA approval.
Incidence of benign skin reactions such as morbilliform exanthematous eruptions, which account for 95% of cutaneous adverse drug reactions, ranges...
The findings suggest the need for close monitoring of patients who develop both epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.
Clinical prediction models can help neurologists identify which patients could benefit from more aggressive early treatment.
Three novel therapies for epilepsy, including a first-in-man product, are positive.
“Our study addresses the critical need for automation in monitoring epileptic activity and seizure burden.”
Individuals with epilepsy had a 60% higher risk for hospitalization and a 33% higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than those without the disorder...
The dogs may ease participants’ stress, leading to a decrease in seizure frequency, although they note this relationship warrants more study.
Those with a progressive disease phenotype are at particularly high seizure risk.
“In addition to advances in medicine, there has been a shift toward addressing overall well-being beyond seizure management.”
“We are not doing as good a job with planning for transition as we should.”
“Artificial intelligence will not replace clinicians, but clinicians assisted by artificial intelligence will replace clinicians without...
The prognosis looks comparatively worse for patients who have Alzheimer’s disease and comorbid epilepsy than for patients who have only epilepsy...
Clinicians should ask their older patients with epilepsy, many of whom live alone, about food insecurity and access to resources “not just within...
Genetic testing results may end a long and exhausting “diagnostic odyssey” that families have been on.
The mortality risk assessment needs include sleep factors, including sleep disorders and sleep disturbances.
“We now have the potential to change the way genetic epilepsies are treated by addressing the underlying genetic cause of the disease instead of...