Epilepsy Currents

The Road to Diagnosis: Shortening the Diagnostic Odyssey in Epilepsy

Bringing EEG Back to the Future: Use of cEEG in Neurocritical Care

SCN8A: When Neurons Are So Excited, They Just Can’t Hide It

Infantile Spasms of Unknown Cause: Who Can Have a Good Outcome?

Blocking TrkB’s Effectors Reveal Benefits of the Road Not Taken

American Epilepsy Society (AES): Written Comments to Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, MD, Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Putting a Band-Aid on a Broken Leg: Antiseizure Medications Are Inferior to Immune Therapies in Autoimmune Epilepsy

When a Good Cop Turns Bad: The Pro-Ictal Action of Parvalbumin Expressing Interneurons During Seizures

Medications for Early Life Epilepsy: Evidence Versus Experience?

“Chance Takers Are Accident Makers”: Are Patients With Epilepsy Really Taking a Chance When They Drive?

Seizing Sequencing Data to Consider Cell and Circuit Complexity

Fast-Spiking Interneurons Exposed in Tumor-Associated Epilepsy

The Dilemma of the Chicken or the Egg—What Appears First in TLE—Seizures or Morphometric Changes in the Temporal Lobe?

Delay of Treatment, After Diagnosis, as a Contributor to the “Treatment Gap” in Epilepsy

Making Rash Decisions in Epilepsy: Evaluating Hypersensitivity Reactions to Anti-seizure Medications

Ketogenic Dietary Therapy Controversies for Its Second Century

Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely (and Its Effects on Seizure Burden and Comorbidities)

One-Hit Wonders and 2-Hit Tubers: A Second-Hit to TSC2 Causes Tuber-Like Cells in Spheroids

A Straw Can Break a Neural Network’s Back and Lead to Seizures—But Only When Delivered at the Right Time

Mission: Control. How Can We Increase Highly Effective Contraception Use in Women With Epilepsy?

Mechanisms of Epilepsy and Neuronal Synchronization Gordon Research Conference Power Hour Summary

Solid Evidence for a Thin Hypothesis

“Are We There Yet?” Quest for Treatment of Refractory Epilepsy

Epilepsy Did it Again: Memory and Model-Based Planning Studied in Patients After Epilepsy Surgery

Reigning in Excitatory Signaling in CDKL5 Deficiency

Encapsulated Neuroprotection to the Rescue—or How to Safely Protect a Brain From Seizing

SUDEP: The Worst in Epilepsy and the Hardest to Image

Oligodendrocyte Kir4.1 Channels Clear Out Congested K+

Inhibition Gets a New KAR Smell

Strokes or Seizures? What’s the Score?

THAR SHE BLOWS! The Search for the Great Spermine Whale of Carbamazepine Resistance

Are Antidepressant Medications Safe for Pregnant Women With Epilepsy? The Signs Point to Yes

KCC2 Much Chloride Might Not Be the Only Problem

Not Just Where, But How Does a Seizure Start?

Reality Is in the Posterior Hippocampus: Who Knew?

Addressing a Deep Problem With Magnetoencephalography

A Brief Boost of Positive Energy When Young Makes for a Healthy Adult Interneuron

Mom Controls the Thermostat: Mitochondria Influence the Neuronal Firing Set Point

The Cost of the Second Seizure: Rethinking the Treatment Decision

Preventing Birth Defects by Changing Maternal Antiepileptic Drug Therapy: We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Guilty by Association: KCTD16 and GABABR Antibodies in Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis

The Space-Time Continuum of Cortical Dysplasia

Epilepsy Therapy Goes Viral

CRAFTing a New Approach to Antiepileptic Drug Discovery

Mortality in Epilepsy: Referral to a Specialty Center Makes a Difference

The Theta Stone: 3 to 10 Hz Oscillations to Decipher the Human Brain Code.

One Seizure Please, Hold the Sprouts: The Role of Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Sprouting in Epilepsy