AES Annual Meeting - American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting

Joseph Sullivan, MD—associate professor at the University of California San Francisco, director of USCF Pediatric Epilepsy Center—discusses some of the challenges in managing pediatric epilepsy.

Researchers at the American Epilepsy Society meeting reported important strides in the understanding of epilepsy, including identification of new therapeutic targets in the brain, as discussed by Esther Krook-Magnuson, PhD, as well as improved understanding of the factors involved in sudden death of patients with epilepsy, and a greater recognition of the benefits of neurosurgery in patients with epilepsy.