Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: what we do and do not know

N Specchio, P Curatolo - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Developmental encephalopathies, including intellectual disability and autistic spectrum
disorder, are frequently associated with infant epilepsy. Epileptic encephalopathy is used to …

CDKL5 deficiency disorder: clinical features, diagnosis, and management

H Leonard, J Downs, TA Benke, L Swanson… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) was first identified as a cause of human disease in 2004.
Although initially considered a variant of Rett syndrome, CDD is now recognised as an …

Early childhood epilepsies: epidemiology, classification, aetiology, and socio-economic determinants

JD Symonds, KS Elliott, J Shetty, M Armstrong… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Epilepsies of early childhood are frequently resistant to therapy and often associated with
cognitive and behavioural comorbidity. Aetiology focused precision medicine, notably gene …

STXBP1 encephalopathies: clinical spectrum, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic strategies

D Abramov, NGL Guiberson… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mutations in Munc18‐1/STXBP1 (syntaxin‐binding protein 1) are linked to various
severe early epileptic encephalopathies and neurodevelopmental disorders. Heterozygous …

Epilepsy Course and Developmental Trajectories in STXBP1-DEE

G Balagura, J Xian, A Riva, F Marchese… - Neurology …, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Clinical manifestations in STXBP1 developmental and epileptic
encephalopathy (DEE) vary in severity and outcome, and the genotypic spectrum is diverse …

Exploring the hereditary nature of migraine

C Bron, HG Sutherland, LR Griffiths - Neuropsychiatric Disease and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Migraine is a common neurological disorder which affects 15–20% of the population; it has a
high socioeconomic impact through treatment and loss of productivity. Current forms of …

[HTML][HTML] Voltage-Gated Ca2+-Channel α1-Subunit de novo Missense Mutations: Gain or Loss of Function – Implications for Potential Therapies

J Striessnig - Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This review summarizes our current knowledge of human disease-relevant genetic variants
within the family of voltage gated Ca2+ channels. Ca2+ channelopathies cover a wide …

[HTML][HTML] Natural history studies and clinical trial readiness for genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

EE Palmer, K Howell, IE Scheffer - Neurotherapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
The developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are the most severe group of
epilepsies. They usually begin in infancy or childhood with drug-resistant seizures …

Early-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathies of infancy: an overview of the genetic basis and clinical features

N Morrison-Levy, F Borlot, P Jain, R Whitney - Pediatric neurology, 2021 - Elsevier
Our current knowledge of genetically determined forms of epilepsy has shortened the
diagnostic pathway usually experienced by the families of infants diagnosed with early …

[PDF][PDF] Long-read genome sequencing for the molecular diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders

SM Hiatt, JMJ Lawlor, LH Handley, RC Ramaker… - Human Genetics and …, 2021 - cell.com
Exome and genome sequencing have proven to be effective tools for the diagnosis of
neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), but large fractions of NDDs cannot be attributed to …