Articles tagged with 'epilepsy research' | Checkup Newsroom

Children and teens with Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy, have new hope following treatment with an investigative therapy that alters the effects of the genetic abnormality responsible for their condition.Following treatment, children …

A pioneering collaboration between Cook Children’s Health Care System and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is paving the way for research that will shape pediatric brain health and treatment now and for generations, while also building a …

Running around too much or getting too hot used to trigger seizures several times a week for 8-year-old Sebastian Ruiz.But since he started new investigational treatment through a clinical study at Cook Children’s, the seizures happen less often -- …

Researchers from Cook Children’s used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop an innovative tool that precisely identifies the area of the brain where seizures originate in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.Their findings were published in March …

While most of us know Fenfluramine as one of two components in a notorious weight loss drug, researchers are finding it has remarkable potential for the treatment of rare genetic epilepsy syndromes. Cook Children’s recently participated in …