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The challenges and innovations for therapy in children with epilepsy.
Nature reviews. Neurology - 1 May 2014
Wilmshurst Jo M, Berg Anne T, Lagae Lieven, Newton Charles R, Cross J Helen
Abstract excerpt
Major advances have been made in the diagnosis, evaluation and management of children with epilepsy over the past 15 years. There has been a marked increase in genetic diagnoses of a number of key childhood-onset epilepsy syndromes, such as Dravet syndrome, which has been linked to mutations in the SCN1A gene. The reorganization and reclassification of epilepsies, devised by the International League Against...
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