Xenon Pharmaceuticals’ anti-seizure candidate has smashed a pivotal trial out of the park, lowering seizure rates by more ...

More frequent seizures during the menstrual cycle in women with genetic generalized epilepsy have been linked for the first time to drug-resistant epilepsy, when anti-seizure medications don't work, ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

Frederic L.W.V.J. Schaper, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Network Mapping at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical ...

People with generalized epilepsy who have seizures arising from both sides of the brain simultaneously, have a higher risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) compared to patients who have focal epilepsy ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee ―The retention rate for the antiseizure drug perampanel (Eisai Co, Ltd) is more than 70% for adult patients with epilepsy, new research shows. In early results from the PERPRISE ...

TOKYO, May 13, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - - Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that it has received approval in China for the additional indication of its in-house discovered antiepileptic drug (AED) ...

New Brunswick, N.J. (October 28, 2021) – Combining electroencephalogram (EEG) data with clinical observations can help doctors to better determine whether generalized epilepsy patients will respond to ...

-- New approval for VIMPAT® (lacosamide) CV in the U.S. as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures (PGTCS) in patients four years of age and older -- All three ...

Valproate (Depakene) emerged as the best first-line choice for generalized epilepsy in a pragmatic study and lamotrigine (Lamictal) as the best first-line treatment for focal epilepsy, British ...