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    Can Antihistamines Trigger Seizures in Young Kids?

    Author:
    Jake Remaly
    Publish date: September 10, 2024

    “The benefits and risks of antihistamine use should always be carefully considered, especially when prescribing H1 antihistamines to vulnerable...

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    Literature Review

    AI Matches Expert Interpretation of Routine EEGs

    Author:
    Will Pass
    Publish date: August 22, 2024

    SCORE-AI, the model tested, can reliably interpret common EEGs in real-world practice, supporting its recent FDA approval.

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    MD IQ

    Quiz: Neurobehavioral comorbidities of epilepsy

    News

    In Some Patients, Antiseizure Medications Can Cause Severe Skin Reactions

    Author:
    John Jesitus
    Publish date: July 18, 2024

    Incidence of benign skin reactions such as morbilliform exanthematous eruptions, which account for 95% of cutaneous adverse drug reactions, ranges...

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    News

    TBI Significantly Increases Mortality Rate Among Veterans With Epilepsy

    Author:
    Jeff Craven
    Publish date: July 18, 2024

    The findings suggest the need for close monitoring of patients who develop both epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.

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    Literature Review

    Clinical Prediction Models in Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy

    Author:
    John Jesitus
    Publish date: May 20, 2024

    Clinical prediction models can help neurologists identify which patients could benefit from more aggressive early treatment.

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    Conference Coverage

    Novel Treatment Options for Epilepsy

    Author:
    Ted Bosworth
    Publish date: May 7, 2024

    Three novel therapies for epilepsy, including a first-in-man product, are positive.

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    Conference Coverage

    ‘Compelling’ Results for AI EEG to Predict Functional Outcomes

    Author:
    Megan Brooks
    Publish date: April 17, 2024

    “Our study addresses the critical need for automation in monitoring epileptic activity and seizure burden.”

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    News

    Epilepsy Linked to Higher COVID Hospitalization, Death Rates

    Author:
    Eve Bender
    Publish date: March 15, 2024

    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...

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    News

    Service Dogs Lead to Fewer Seizures in Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy

    Author:
    Eve Bender
    Publish date: March 12, 2024

    The dogs may ease participants’ stress, leading to a decrease in seizure frequency, although they note this relationship warrants more study.

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    Literature Review

    Seizure Risk Is Nearly Double in Patients With MS

    Author:
    Pauline Anderson
    Publish date: March 6, 2024

    Those with a progressive disease phenotype are at particularly high seizure risk.

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    News

    New, Updated Guidelines for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care

    Author:
    Megan Brooks
    Publish date: February 7, 2024

    “In addition to advances in medicine, there has been a shift toward addressing overall well-being beyond seizure management.”

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    News

    Adequate Transition of Epilepsy Care from Pediatric to Adult Is Often Lacking

    Author:
    John Jesitus
    Publish date: January 30, 2024

    “We are not doing as good a job with planning for transition as we should.”

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    Conference Coverage

    With Proper Training, AI Can Be a Useful Tool in Epilepsy Management

    Author:
    Frieda Wiley, PharmD
    Publish date: January 17, 2024

    “Artificial intelligence will not replace clinicians, but clinicians assisted by artificial intelligence will replace clinicians without...

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    Conference Coverage

    Genetic Testing Is Recommended for Adult Patients With Epilepsy

    Author:
    Frieda Wiley, PharmD
    Publish date: January 12, 2024

    Genetic testing provides a more comprehensive overview of a patient’s genetic landscape, and it can enhance the...

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    MD IQ

    Quiz: Epilepsy surgery complications & outcomes

    Conference Coverage

    Alzheimer’s and Epilepsy: Can Shared Molecular Mechanisms Reveal New Opportunities for Epilepsy?

    Author:
    Frieda Wiley, PharmD
    Publish date: January 8, 2024

    The prognosis looks comparatively worse for patients who have Alzheimer’s disease and comorbid epilepsy than for patients who have only epilepsy...

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    Conference Coverage

    Despite Few CNS Gene Therapies for Epilepsy, New Research Offers Hope

    Author:
    Frieda Wiley, PharmD
    Publish date: January 5, 2024

    Ongoing research is focused on new gene therapies that might one day become effective options in treating...

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    Conference Coverage

    Poverty tied to poor cognition in patients with epilepsy

    Author:
    Pauline Anderson
    Publish date: December 7, 2023

    Clinicians should ask their older patients with epilepsy, many of whom live alone, about food insecurity and access to resources “not just within...

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    MD IQ

    Quiz: Subtemporal amygdalohippocampectomy for temporal lobe epilepsy management

    Conference Coverage

    Genetic testing warranted in epilepsy of unknown origin

    Author:
    Pauline Anderson
    Publish date: December 7, 2023

    Genetic testing results may end a long and exhausting “diagnostic odyssey” that families have been on.

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    Conference Coverage

    Sleep disorders linked to increased mortality risk in epilepsy

    Author:
    Pauline Anderson
    Publish date: December 7, 2023

    The mortality risk assessment needs include sleep factors, including sleep disorders and sleep disturbances.

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    MD IQ

    Quiz: ILAE Classifications: Epilepsy etiologies

    Literature Review

    RNA therapeutics will ‘change everything’ in epilepsy

    Author:
    Megan Brooks
    Publish date: November 8, 2023

    “We now have the potential to change the way genetic epilepsies are treated by addressing the underlying genetic cause of the disease instead of...

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    Conference Coverage

    • Novel Treatment Options for Epilepsy
      Publish date: May 7, 2024
    • ‘Compelling’ Results for AI EEG to Predict Functional Outcomes
      Publish date: April 17, 2024
    • With Proper Training, AI Can Be a Useful Tool in Epilepsy Management
      Publish date: January 17, 2024
    • Genetic Testing Is Recommended for Adult Patients With Epilepsy
      Publish date: January 12, 2024
    • Alzheimer’s and Epilepsy: Can Shared Molecular Mechanisms Reveal New Opportunities for Epilepsy?
      Publish date: January 8, 2024
    • Despite Few CNS Gene Therapies for Epilepsy, New Research Offers Hope
      Publish date: January 5, 2024
    • Poverty tied to poor cognition in patients with epilepsy
      Publish date: December 7, 2023
    • Genetic testing warranted in epilepsy of unknown origin
      Publish date: December 7, 2023
    • Sleep disorders linked to increased mortality risk in epilepsy
      Publish date: December 7, 2023
    • Noninvasive testing in midlife flags late-onset epilepsy risk
      Publish date: April 27, 2023
    more

    Multimedia

    • Patients describe significant impact of epilepsy on their lives
    • Interview with Dr. Kathryn Kvam at AAN
      Publish date: May 15, 2018
    • Tatiana Falcone, MD
      Publish date: December 18, 2017
    more

    Literature Review

    • Can Antihistamines Trigger Seizures in Young Kids?
      Publish date: September 10, 2024
    • AI Matches Expert Interpretation of Routine EEGs
      Publish date: August 22, 2024
    • In Some Patients, Antiseizure Medications Can Cause Severe Skin Reactions
      Publish date: July 18, 2024
    • TBI Significantly Increases Mortality Rate Among Veterans With Epilepsy
      Publish date: July 18, 2024
    • Clinical Prediction Models in Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy
      Publish date: May 20, 2024
    • Epilepsy Linked to Higher COVID Hospitalization, Death Rates
      Publish date: March 15, 2024
    • Service Dogs Lead to Fewer Seizures in Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy
      Publish date: March 12, 2024
    • Seizure Risk Is Nearly Double in Patients With MS
      Publish date: March 6, 2024
    • New, Updated Guidelines for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care
      Publish date: February 7, 2024
    • Adequate Transition of Epilepsy Care from Pediatric to Adult Is Often Lacking
      Publish date: January 30, 2024
    more

    Neurobehavioral comorbidities of epilepsy

    Question 1 of 5

    Among the comorbid conditions frequently associated with epilepsy is/are __________.

    Anxiety disorders

    Cognitive dysfunction

    Depression

    A and C

    All of the above

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