Seizure causes and treatments in newborns and infants
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This study looks at what causes certain serious seizures that start early in life, and how to treat them. It may help doctors better match treatments to the seizure cause in newborns and young infants.
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Who can take part
- You have severe seizures in a newborn, or generalized epilepsy in infancy
- Your seizures started before age 1
- The seizure condition may be an “epileptic encephalopathy,” meaning seizures are severe and the cause isn’t yet known
- There is no clear cause like a head injury or a brain infection at the time of screening
- No tests have found a known genetic change that explains the seizures, such as an important copy-number variant on CGH
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