MDedge News >Conference News > AAN 2024 Ted Bosworth May 14, 2024 Two Novel Epilepsy Treatments Headed for Pivotal Trials DENVER — Two new drugs are headed toward pivotal trials after making their endpoints in phase 2 treatment-resistant epilepsy studies, while a first-in-humans study of an implantable product suggests a new direction for this disease,...
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Discovery of unknown brain-repair process could lead to new epilepsy treatments
by Josh Barney, University of Virginia Credit: Ziniu Chen, University Communications University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a previously unknown repair process in the brain that they hope could be harnessed and enhanced to treat seizure-related brain injuries. Common seizure-preventing drugs do not work for approximately a third of epilepsy patients, so new and better...