Population‐based epidemiological studies on epilepsy are available mainly from the UK
and the Nordic, Baltic and western Mediterranean countries. No studies were identified from …

Drug‐resistant epilepsy with uncontrolled severe seizures despite state‐of‐the‐art medical
treatment continues to be a major clinical problem for up to one in three patients with …

Background There are few studies on long-term mortality in prospectively followed, well-
characterized cohorts of children with epilepsy. We report on long-term mortality in a Finnish …

It is not well known how often drug resistance, a major clinical problem, occurs early or late
in the course of epilepsy and how often epilepsy follows a continuous, remitting or relapsing …

Objective: To quantify the response to treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) as a function
of the past treatment history and identify additional prognostic factors for predicting the …

Epilepsy is among the most common serious neurologic disorders in childhood.
Epidemiologic studies over the past few decades have greatly increased current knowledge …

Purpose: We describe first unprovoked seizures and newly diagnosed epilepsies at initial
presentation, with a special emphasis on epilepsy syndromes, in a large cohort recruited in …

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of levetiracetam (LEV) as adjunctive
therapy in children (4 to 16 years) with treatment-resistant partial-onset seizures. Methods …

Purpose: Childhood‐onset epilepsy is a common disorder. The long‐term impact of having
childhood epilepsy on quality of life (QOL) as an adult, whether or not seizures are in …

Purpose: To estimate the incidence rate of epilepsies and epileptic syndromes in German
children and adolescents aged 1 month to< 15 years, and to provide data on their …