Abstract
Research in epilepsy in the childhood This report describes current pediatric epilepsy research carried out in Brazilian academic centers, presented at the National Epilepsy Forum, during the XX Brazilian Clinical Neurophysiology Congress. It illustrates the different groups’ efforts to promote research and increase awareness of epilepsy in the pediatric population. Main current research lines include epidemiology, electroencephalography, genetic and cognitive issues in pediatric epilepsy, controlled clinical trials with antiepileptic drugs in different childhood epileptic syndromes, ketogenic diet, single and febrile seizures, temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy, West syndrome-infantile spasms, status epilepticus, malformations of cortical development, sleep and epilepsy, epilepsy surgery in childhood, psychiatric co-morbities and neuroimaging in childhood epilepsy. Collaborative studies, an important tool in fostering research in pediatric epilepsy in our country, are being carried out by some academic centers.
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