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Date: October 18, 2026Time: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pmRoom: Pacific Jewel Ballroom Track: Plenary - Presidential Symposium At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to: Model systems for neurologic disease are crucial for understanding disease pathogenesis and testing new therapeutics. Increasingly diverse…
"I don't know how to connect evaluation results to a treatment program." "Voluntary movement isn't bad, but they wobble when they actually walk." "I'm not confident if my approach is truly correct." These are worries that any therapist involved in…
Myoclonic atonic epilepsy (MAE), typically known as Doose syndrome, is an uncommon childhood epilepsy syndrome. I accounts for 1 to 2 out of 100 (1 to 2%) of all childhood-onset epilepsies. Genetics play an important role in this disorder. About 1 out of 3 families have a…
Credit: Courtesy Sara Silverberg By Paige Acevedo and Kim Polyniak When she was 3 years old, Alana "Lani" Silverberg was eating a cookie when she started turning blue. Her mom, Sara, thought her daughter was choking and called 911. Lani was taken…
The new analyses indicate that there were fewer countable motor seizures as early as two weeks following bexicaserin treatment initiation and that these reductions were maintained over a full year of open label observation. This observed response was consistent across…
Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, finds a new global study led by researchers at UCL and UTHealth Houston. Focal epilepsy is a condition where seizures start in one part…
A systematic review of 43 studies finds that longer status epilepticus duration predicts worse functional outcome more consistently than mortality, urging clinicians to treat seizure duration as a context-dependent marker rather than an absolute threshold. Article Title: Associations between duration of…
Listen below or download the episode. Sharp Waves episodes are meant for informational purposes only, and not as clinical or medical advice. Dr. Patrick Kwan: Sure, of course. So my name is Patrick Kwan. I'm a professor of neurology at…
Treatment of Tonic-Clonic Status Epilepticus After T1 With Diazepam Nasal Spray in Patients Aged 2-17 Years: A Combined Cohort Analysis (Poster 76) This new combined cohort post-hoc analysis explored treatment of tonic-clonic SE within seizure clusters in patients aged 2-17 years treated with diazepam…
When you hear the words “brain surgery,” it is absolutely normal to feel terrified. For a person living with epilepsy, the thought of having a part of the brain operated on can be even more concerning...