Advancing Neonatal Seizures and Epilepsy: New Perspectives and Interventions
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Pediatrics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 71
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neonatal seizures; neonatal neurology; neonatal epilepsy; neonatal EEG; pediatric neurology
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2. Innovation Biomedicine section, Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Interests: neonatal seizures; neonatal epilepsy; pediatric epilepsy; EEG; pediatric neurology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Neonatal seizures and neonatal epilepsy are an increasingly pertinent and progressing research topic.
Studies focusing on advancements in prompt recognition, assessment, and etiological diagnosis of neonatal seizures are ongoing. Furthermore, new advances have been made in neonatal seizure classification and guidelines for monitoring; however, precise definitions and standard approaches are still lacking.
There is a greater interest in how to correctly guide our interventions in order to provide targeted therapy and more precise diagnoses and prognoses.
On the one hand, instrumental tools for brain monitoring in automated analyses are developing quickly and with increasing interest. On the other hand, greater attention is being given to developing standardized methods and training for clinicians, reliable tools for neonatal seizure recognition, and protocols for correct treatment.
Furthermore, there has been continuous evolution of the genetic field, with interest in faster genetic diagnosis and better genotype–phenotype characterization (deep phenotyping), in order to provide a faster precision medicine approach whenever possible.
In the present Special Issue, we would like to provide an overview of the current advances in the field, both by means of reviews on new or educational diagnoses, and current relevant studies for both term and preterm newborns.
Dr. Elena Pavlidis
Dr. Gaetano Cantalupo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neonatal seizures
- neonatal epilepsy
- neonatal EEG
- automated EEG analysis
- neonatal brain monitoring
- genetic
- precision medicine
- genetic epilepsies
- genome
- exome
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