Behavioral scoring based on clinical observations remains the gold standard for screening, diagnosing,and evaluating ...

The ketogenic diet is a nonpharmacologic treatment for epilepsy. Infantile spasm is a particular form of epilepsy in infants characterized by a high level of resistance to antiepileptic drugs and ...

For infantile spasms, the benefits of vigabatrin ... VFL studies performed in patients with refractory partial epilepsy (previously or currently exposed to vigabatrin). Maguire et al.

Onset usually occurs during childhood, and up to one third of children with tuberous sclerosis complex will develop infantile spasms. Although not completely understood, the incidence of epilepsy ...

Staff and students at Toronto's St. Eugene Catholic School joined together March 26 in recognizing Purple Day, a global initiative dedicated to increasing awareness about epilepsy.

Epilepsy diagnostics begin with an electroencephalogram ... less common types of seizures including myoclonic seizures and infantile spasms. However, although most types of seizures fall within ...

As a baby, the girl was diagnosed with infantile spasms ... About 100,000 U.S. children have intractable epilepsy—a treatment-resistant category of the disease characterized by uncontrolled ...