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A pioneering study discovers an underlying cause for infantile spasms and points to a novel therapy
05/11/2022
Infantile spasm (IS) is a severe epileptic syndrome of infancy and accounts for 50% of all epilepsy cases that occur in babies during the first year of life.
MoreDr. Charles Chen selected for the 2022 Uplifting Athletes Young Investigator Draft Grant
01/18/2022
A researcher at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Dr. Wu Chen who is a postdoctoral fellow training under assistant professor, Dr.
MoreTexas Children’s researchers discover a noninvasive method to locate seizure foci in Infantile Spasms/West Syndrome patients
10/20/2021
A recent study from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine finds high-frequency activity (HFA) measured with regular electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings can serve as a surrogate clinical biomarker to precisely locate areas of the brain that generate epileptic spasms in infanti
MoreActhar® Gel (RCI) suppresses spasms in the TTX animal model of infantile spasms
02/05/2021
Study finds high dosages of RCI were required to eliminate spasms and hypsarrhythmia in rodents.
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