Prompt diagnosis and treatment of infantile epileptic spasms syndrome, a severe seizure disorder beginning in infancy, can prevent developmental delays. But non-Hispanic Black children are less likely ...

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 ...

Healio spoke with Eric Kossoff, MD, about screening, diagnosing and treating infantile spasms. “Infantile spasms is a condition that we actually do see a fair bit of,” he said. “Although it’s ...

Infantile spasms (IS) are a rare, but serious type of seizure, occurring in 1 in 2,000 children, which can cause catastrophic, permanent damage to a child's developing brain. The seizures include ...

LOS ANGELES — Artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of caregiver-recorded videos has the potential to diagnose infantile epileptic spasm syndrome, according to a new study. Infants with the condition ...

Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS), often called infantile spasms, is the most common form of epilepsy seen during infancy. Prompt diagnosis and referral to a neurologist are essential. But ...

Infantile spasms represent a severe epileptic encephalopathy predominantly affecting early childhood, with West syndrome constituting a well‐defined clinical subset marked by a triad of spasms, ...

My son, Logan, was born on March 13, 2020. His birth was unexpected; I was at home when my water broke. Luckily, my mom was with me and she helped deliver Logan. But when he was born, he was ...

EXETER — One Exeter mother wanted the people around her to understand her child's rare illness, infantile spasms. So she wrote a children's book to help explain it to her family, friends, her child's ...