A groundbreaking study has found the underlying cause and a potential treatment for infantile spasms -- intractable epilepsy common in babies and with limited treatment options. Infantile spasm (IS) ...

New research from Tufts University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences suggests that the timing of the death of certain inhibitory neurons in the brain shortly after ...

Infantile spasms, also known as West Syndrome in other geographies, is a severe, ultra-rare form of epilepsy that affects infants under the age of 36 months. Incidence is estimated at approximately ...

When Faustina Cavero, 31, first saw her baby make an odd gesture, she thought she must have scared her when picking her up. The nearly 5-month-old's arms would stretch and stiffen. She made faces like ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model correctly identified 83% of movements that were infantile spasms. Researchers developed a digital tool ...

Researchers studying a difficult-to-treat form of childhood epilepsy called infantile spasms have developed a line of mice that experiences seizures with features closely resembling those occurring in ...

While the seizures appear mild, if left untreated, the condition can cause permanent brain damage. Sherrie Judd’s daughter Adalind, has been diagnosed with infantile spasms, a form of epilepsy also ...

Shenyang Institute of Computing Technology, CAS and Chinese PLA General Hospital Joint Team conduct series of investigations on Infantile Spasms Syndrome (IESS), also known as West syndrome, ...

Children with infantile spasms, a rare form of epileptic seizures, should be treated with one of three recommended therapies and the use of non-standard therapies should be strongly discouraged, ...

Infantile spasms are hard to diagnose, which can lead to treatment delays, according to the study authors. Children under age 2 with a rare disorder that causes spasms have frequent doctors’ visits ...

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The model had an area under the receiver-operating-curve (AUC) of 0.96, with 82% sensitivity and 90% specificity, reported Gadi Miron, MD, of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany, at the ...