Most seizures last less than 5 minutes. But sometimes they don’t stop there – or they come one after the other, giving the person suffering from them no chance to recover. “Status epilepticus” ...

A surprisingly high rate of nonconvulsive seizures and status epilepticus is found during continuous EEG monitoring in critically ill patients. A recent analysis of data regarding hospitalization and ...

Treatment of NCSE depends to a large extent on the subtype diagnosed and the circumstances in which SE occurs ( Table 1). The drug regimens described below are applicable to patients of all ages; ...

In adult patients with status epilepticus (SE)—a life-threatening state of ongoing or repetitive seizures—the current evidence regarding outcome prediction is based on clinical, biochemical and EEG ...

Status epilepticus is a condition that is characterized by repeated seizures and is a medical emergency. Treatment is usually with a Benzodiazepine such as Diazepam or Lorazepam etc. There have been ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sage Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SAGE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel medicines to treat life-altering central nervous system (CNS) disorders ...