Prompt diagnosis and treatment of infantile epileptic spasms syndrome, a severe seizure disorder beginning in infancy, can prevent developmental delays. But non-Hispanic Black children are less likely ...

Infantile spasms represent a severe epileptic encephalopathy predominantly affecting early childhood, with West syndrome constituting a well‐defined clinical subset marked by a triad of spasms, ...

Health advisor Lidia Molinara highlighted infantile spasms, a serious seizure type in babies aged 3-12 months, often mistaken for normal behavior. These spasms, appearing as head drops or jerky ...

Healio spoke with Eric Kossoff, MD, about screening, diagnosing and treating infantile spasms. “Infantile spasms is a condition that we actually do see a fair bit of,” he said. “Although it’s ...

"Parents with children who have infantile spasms are dealing with multiple issues and concerns when caring for their child. The experts at PANTHERx have been helping children and infants with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model correctly identified 83% of movements that were infantile spasms. Researchers developed a digital tool ...

EXETER — One Exeter mother wanted the people around her to understand her child's rare illness, infantile spasms. So she wrote a children's book to help explain it to her family, friends, her child's ...

Infantile spasms (IS) are a rare, but serious type of seizure, occurring in 1 in 2,000 children, which can cause catastrophic, permanent damage to a child's developing brain. The seizures include ...