When Miguel Cervantes and his wife, Kelly, first found out something was wrong with their daughter, they “started Googling around about infantile spasms, and it was just terrifying,” Miguel Cervantes ...

BALTIMORE -- Children with infantile spasms were not likely to have a sibling who also had infantile spasms, other forms of epilepsy, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a retrospective cohort study ...

(BPT) - Your new baby starts nodding her head sharply several times in a row after naps. Soon, it’s happening more often and for longer stretches throughout the day. Your friends point to ...

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, ...

Martina Bebin, MD, MPA, professor of neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham Epilepsy Center, discussed Infantile Spasms Awareness Week, the strides made within the field, and the emphasis on ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of caregiver-recorded videos has the potential to diagnose infantile epileptic spasm syndrome, according to a new study. Infants with the condition ...

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 ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study has found the underlying cause and a potential treatment for infantile spasms -- intractable epilepsy common in babies and with limited treatment options. Infantile spasm (IS) ...

correctionAn earlier version of this article said early diagnosis and treatment can prevent developmental delays in children with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome, but it failed to note that most ...