Cannabinoids in treatment-resistant epilepsy: a review

BK O'Connell, D Gloss, O Devinsky - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment-resistant epilepsy (TRE) affects 30% of epilepsy patients and is
associated with severe morbidity and increased mortality. Cannabis-based therapies have …

SCN1A Mutation—Beyond Dravet Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

J Ding, X Li, H Tian, L Wang, B Guo, Y Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: SCN1A is one of the most common epilepsy genes. About 80% of SCN1A
gene mutations cause Dravet syndrome (DS), which is a severe and catastrophic epileptic …

Long‐term cannabidiol treatment in patients with Dravet syndrome: An open‐label extension trial

O Devinsky, R Nabbout, I Miller, L Laux… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Add‐on cannabidiol (CBD) significantly reduced seizures associated with Dravet
syndrome (DS) in a randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial: GWPCARE1 Part B …

A practical guide to the treatment of Dravet syndrome with anti-seizure medication

A Strzelczyk, S Schubert-Bast - CNS drugs, 2022 - Springer
Dravet syndrome is a severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterised by
refractory seizures and cognitive dysfunction. The treatment is challenging, not least …

Coadministered cannabidiol and clobazam: Preclinical evidence for both pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic interactions

LL Anderson, NL Absalom, SV Abelev, IK Low… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Cannabidiol (CBD) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) to treat intractable childhood epilepsies, such as Dravet syndrome and Lennox …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of fenfluramine on the expected SUDEP mortality rates in patients with Dravet syndrome

JH Cross, BS Galer, A Gil-Nagel, O Devinsky… - Seizure, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To assess the impact of fenfluramine (FFA) on the expected mortality incidence,
including sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), in persons with Dravet syndrome …

Selective NaV1.1 activation rescues Dravet syndrome mice from seizures and premature death

KL Richards, CJ Milligan… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Dravet syndrome is a catastrophic, pharmacoresistant epileptic encephalopathy. Disease
onset occurs in the first year of life, followed by developmental delay with cognitive and …

Widespread genomic influences on phenotype in Dravet syndrome, a 'monogenic'condition

H Martins Custodio, LM Clayton, R Bellampalli, S Pagni… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Dravet syndrome is an archetypal rare severe epilepsy, considered 'monogenic', typically
caused by loss-of-function SCN1A variants. Despite a recognizable core phenotype, its …

Clinical advances of RNA therapeutics for treatment of neurological and neuromuscular diseases

A Holm, SN Hansen, H Klitgaard, S Kauppinen - RNA biology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT RNA therapeutics comprise a diverse group of oligonucleotide-based drugs
such as antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and short …

[HTML][HTML] Dravet syndrome: an overview

A Anwar, S Saleem, UK Patel, K Arumaithurai, P Malik - Cureus, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dravet syndrome (DS), also known as severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is one of
the rare early childhood intractable epileptic encephalopathies associated with pleomorphic …