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The University of Southampton has announced that Dr. Maurits de Planque of the university's Nano Research Group is using nanotechnology to develop faster and less expensive methods of testing pharmaceutical drugs to treat diseases such as epilepsy... Learn More
As our understanding of genetics improves and the range of available experimental, clinical and neuroimaging examination techniques increase, researchers are better able to study the relationship between febrile convulsions and epilepsy. In a rese... Learn More
The use of the anticonvuslant drug rufinamide (1-[(2,6-difluorophenil1) methyl1]-1 hydro 1,2,3-triazole-4 carboxamide) in the adjunctive treatment of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is well known. However, in the July 2011 issue of Neuropsychiat... Learn More
Dr. Paola Iannettia of the Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Rome "La Sapienza," et al., report in the journal Epilepsy Research ("Addition of verapamil in the treatment of s... Learn More
In an article in the journal Brain ("Dravet syndrome as epileptic encephalopathy: evidence from long-term course and neuropathology," June 29, 2011), Claudia B. Catarino of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, U... Learn More
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