Recent Advancements in Diagnosis and Management of Epilepsy Patients

Dear Colleagues,

Epilepsy, whose discovery dates back to 2000 BC, is one of the oldest recognized neurological conditions and remains a common neurological condition affecting nearly 50 million people worldwide. Advances in epilepsy diagnosis and management started 100 years ago when Hans Berger invented scalp EEG. Since then, the field of epilepsy has evolved from providing a description of focal and generalized seizures to defining pathophysiology, classification, localization, use of epileptic drugs, and surgical treatments in the management of epilepsy. Research continues to unravel the mechanisms of epileptogenesis at the cellular and molecular levels with the aim of devising better treatment strategies. Long-term monitoring with simultaneous collection of EEG data and video has allowed for improved characterization of seizure semiology and a definitive separation of epileptic from nonepileptic behaviors. It has also opened the possibility of surgical intervention to far greater numbers of patients. Advancements in brain imaging techniques present a unique opportunity to better characterize the nature of epileptogenic lesions and have provided novel insight into management strategies. The past two decades have witnessed an acceleration in our understanding of the role of genetics in epileptogenicity and in identifying genes that influence the risk of epilepsy. There is an increasing range of choices of treatments for patients with epilepsy, including both drug therapy and surgical intervention.

This Special Issue of IJERPH will focus on the advances in the field of epilepsy over the last decade and their impact on the diagnosis and management of epilepsy patients. We are seeking articles focused on the keywords below.

Dr. Arpan Patel
Guest Editor

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• autoimmune epilepsy
• advances in epilepsy surgery
• newer antiepileptic drugs
• home VEEG telemetry
• automated EEG analysis
• epilepsy genetics in adult patients with epilepsy
• intracranial electroencephalography
• rapid response EEG (e.g., Ceribell)
• neuroimaging of epilepsy
• wearable seizure detection devices
• role of inflammation in epilepsy