The pharmacology and clinical efficacy of antiseizure medications: from bromide salts to cenobamate and beyond

W Löscher, P Klein - CNS drugs, 2021 - Springer
Epilepsy is one of the most common and disabling chronic neurological disorders.
Antiseizure medications (ASMs), previously referred to as anticonvulsant or antiepileptic …

Epilepsy in adults

RD Thijs, R Surges, TJ O'Brien, JW Sander - The lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Epilepsy is one of the most common serious brain conditions, affecting over 70 million
people worldwide. Its incidence has a bimodal distribution with the highest risk in infants and …

[HTML][HTML] Updated international tuberous sclerosis complex diagnostic criteria and surveillance and management recommendations

H Northrup, ME Aronow, EM Bebin, J Bissler… - Pediatric Neurology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant genetic disease
affecting multiple body systems with wide variability in presentation. In 2013, Pediatric …

mTOR and neuroinflammation in epilepsy: implications for disease progression and treatment

T Ravizza, M Scheper, R Di Sapia, J Gorter… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Epilepsy remains a major health concern as anti-seizure medications frequently fail, and
there is currently no treatment to stop or prevent epileptogenesis, the process underlying the …

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

IE Scheffer, S Zuberi, HC Mefford, R Guerrini… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, the most severe group of epilepsies, are
characterized by seizures and frequent epileptiform activity associated with developmental …

Psychobehavioural and cognitive adverse events of anti-seizure medications for the treatment of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

A Strzelczyk, S Schubert-Bast - CNS drugs, 2022 - Springer
The developmental and epileptic encephalopathies encompass a group of rare syndromes
characterised by severe drug-resistant epilepsy with onset in childhood and significant …

Drug development in the era of precision medicine

SA Dugger, A Platt, DB Goldstein - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
For the past three decades, the use of genomics to inform drug discovery and development
pipelines has generated both excitement and scepticism. Although earlier efforts …

Tuberous sclerosis complex

EP Henske, S Jóźwiak, JC Kingswood… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disorder that affects multiple
organ systems and is caused by loss-of-function mutations in one of two genes: TSC1 or …

Advances in the genetics and neuropathology of tuberous sclerosis complex: edging closer to targeted therapy

P Curatolo, N Specchio, E Aronica - The Lancet Neurology, 2022 - thelancet.com
Tuberous sclerosis complex is a rare genetic disease associated with mutations in the TSC1
or TSC2 genes, which cause overactivation of the mTOR complex. In the past 5 years …

New epilepsy therapies in development

P Klein, RM Kaminski, M Koepp… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2024 - nature.com
Epilepsy is a common brain disorder, characterized by spontaneous recurrent seizures, with
associated neuropsychiatric and cognitive comorbidities and increased mortality. Although …