Patients with refractory partial and secondarily generalized seizures had a reduction in seizures after deep brain stimulation, according to new research. This multi-center clinical trial determined ...

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that involve ...

Treatment with vigabatrin carries the risk of permanent vision loss. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval of Sabril® (vigabatrin; Lundbeck) to include treatment of ...

Impaired consciousness has long been considered the hallmark of epileptic seizures. Both generalized seizures and complex partial seizures are characterized by a multifaceted spectrum of altered ...

Taking a statin after a stroke, especially in the acute phase, reduces the risk for early-onset seizures and may prevent the progression of these seizures to chronic epilepsy, new research suggests.

UCB announced primary Phase 3 study data for brivaracetam as adjunctive treatment in adult epilepsy patients with partial-onset seizures. The Phase 3 study was a multicenter, randomize,d double-blind, ...

The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended marketing authorization for the antiepileptic lacosamide UCB (UCB Pharma SA) for partial-onset ...

A 6-year-old boy suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) underwent related donor HSCT in second complete remission. His frontline treatment included standard chemotherapy and prophylactic ...

once-a-day add-on therapy for epilepsy patients 13 years of age or older with partial onset seizures. Lamictal XR reduced seizures in patients who were inadequately controlled on current therapy.