Psychobehavioural and cognitive adverse events of anti-seizure medications for the treatment of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

A Strzelczyk, S Schubert-Bast - CNS drugs, 2022 - Springer
The developmental and epileptic encephalopathies encompass a group of rare syndromes
characterised by severe drug-resistant epilepsy with onset in childhood and significant …

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

IE Scheffer, S Zuberi, HC Mefford, R Guerrini… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, the most severe group of epilepsies, are
characterized by seizures and frequent epileptiform activity associated with developmental …

New epilepsy therapies in development

P Klein, RM Kaminski, M Koepp… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2024 - nature.com
Epilepsy is a common brain disorder, characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures, with
associated neuropsychiatric and cognitive comorbidities and increased mortality. Although …

Dravet syndrome: A systematic literature review of the illness burden

A Strzelczyk, L Lagae, JM Wilmshurst… - Epilepsia …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We performed a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis according to a pre‐
registered protocol (Prospero: CRD42022376561) to identify the evidence associated with …

Fenfluramine in the treatment of Dravet syndrome: results of a third randomized, placebo‐controlled clinical trial

J Sullivan, L Lagae, JH Cross, O Devinsky… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study was undertaken to assess the safety and efficacy of fenfluramine in the
treatment of convulsive seizures in patients with Dravet syndrome. Methods This multicenter …

Fenfluramine: a review in Dravet and Lennox-gastaut syndromes

JE Frampton - Drugs, 2023 - Springer
Fenfluramine (Fintepla®) is an oral anti-seizure medication (ASM) with a novel mechanism
of action consisting of activity in the serotonergic system coupled with positive allosteric …

Dravet syndrome: advances in etiology, clinical presentation, and treatment

Z He, Y Li, X Zhao, B Li - Epilepsy Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Dravet syndrome (DS) is a form of genetic refractory epilepsy. More than 80% of DS patients
carry pathogenic SCN1A mutations, and this percentage is actually higher due to false …

Recent advances in pharmacotherapy for epilepsy

AW Pong, KJ Xu, P Klein - Current opinion in neurology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Recent advances in pharmacotherapy for epilepsy : Current Opinion in Neurology Recent
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Recent advances in pharmacologic treatments of drug-resistant epilepsy: breakthrough in sight

P Klein, D Friedman, P Kwan - CNS drugs, 2024 - Springer
Epilepsy affects approximately 1% of the world population. Patients have recurrent seizures,
increased physical and psychiatric comorbidities, and higher mortality rate than the general …

Health care concerns in parents of children with different genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: a qualitative study

D Palacios‐Ceña, J Güeita‐Rodríguez… - … Medicine & Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To describe the experiences and unmet medical care needs of a group of parents of
children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) caused by the SCN1A …