{"id":1277,"date":"2017-03-01T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2017-04-03T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:54:34","slug":"improving-outcomes-in-infantile-epilepsies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2017\/03\/01\/improving-outcomes-in-infantile-epilepsies\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving outcomes in infantile epilepsies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/210368854\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 01\/03\/2017\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><br \/>\nThe incidence of epilepsy is highest in infancy. Many infant epilepsies, such as infantile spasms, are very severe, with treatment-resistant seizures and major developmental impairments.<br \/>\nThis Grand Round will cover advances in understanding of the causes of infant epilepsies, and how these advances have informed changes in investigation of aetiology and guided use of existing and novel treatments, to improve outcomes in these devastating conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<br \/>\nDr Katherine Howell<\/strong> is a paediatric neurologist and epileptologist at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital. Her research interests include epilepsy and neurogenetics.<br \/>\nShe has recently submitted a PhD thesis through the University of Melbourne, having completed a population-based study of the incidence and causes of severe epilepsies of infancy. She has been involved in national and international collaborative studies of genetic epilepsies, and is the state lead for the epileptic encephalopathies flagship of the Australian Genomic Health Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incidence of epilepsy is highest in infancy. Many infant epilepsies, such as infantile spasms, are very severe, with treatment-resistant seizures and major developmental impairments.<br \/>\nThis Grand Round will cover advances in understanding of the causes of infant epilepsies, and how these advances have informed changes in investigation of aetiology and guided use of existing and novel treatments, to improve outcomes in these devastating conditions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}