“Missing Mutation” Found in Severe Infant Epilepsy
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CHOP has found a long-suspected “missing mutation” in severe infant epilepsy, with early hints that anti-seizure drugs might help patients.
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Ketogenic Diet: Tikvah’s Story
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Before starting on the ketogenic diet, Tikvah suffered from intractable absence seizures. But after just two months on the diet, her condition dramatically improved.
Epilepsy Program Brings Expert Care to Children Worldwide
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The Pediatric Epilepsy Program is one of the largest and most interdisciplinary programs of its kind in the world, with expertise covering all aspects of epilepsy management.
CHOP at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting 2017
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Experts from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Pediatric Epilepsy Program present on a variety of topics at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting.
Using Precision Medicine to Unravel the Sacred Disease: Genetics as a Tool in the Epilepsy Clinic
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Novel technologies have helped researchers identify more than 30 new genes that cause epilepsy and led neurologists at CHOP to pioneer new diagnostic technologies and treatments.
Mapping the Brain to Optimize Epilepsy Surgery
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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is one of only a handful of pediatric hospitals in the country to offer transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to localize the epileptogenic and sensorimotor cortical regions in order to improve family counseling regarding epilepsy surgery and help surgeons avoid those areas when operating.
Targeted Treatment of Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy with Quinidine
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Neurologists at CHOP published a case study of a young patient with MPSI found to have an activating mutation in KCNT1 who showed a dramatic reduction in seizure frequency and improvement in psychomotor and language skills after treatment with quinidine.
CBD Trial at CHOP: Seeking Answers for Epilepsy Patients
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will be a site for a Phase III clinical trial to test the efficacy of a cannabis extract for treating severe childhood epilepsy.
Rethinking Epilepsy Treatment
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An attending physician in The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Division of Neurology dedicates his current research to investigating how epilepsy works, in hopes of discovering an altogether new way to treat the condition.
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