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A 2026 case report describes a man in his 30s with autism, childhood temporal lobe epilepsy and treatment-resistant schizophrenia whose delusions center on fictional media characters. Clozap…
Read articleAt a Florida neurology practice, 371 of 1,011 autistic patients who had genetic testing (36.7%) had an abnormal result. A seizure history and female sex were linked to higher odds; EEG and M…
Read articleIn a 2026 case report from China, a 34-year-old woman with mild intellectual disability was sent for evaluation of possible narcolepsy. Sleep testing and EEG instead showed epilepsy and mode…
Read articleA 2026 meta-analysis of 50 studies estimated that about 1 in 3 people with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) have ADHD (33%), and that roughly 1 in 10 have autism (11%), seizures (11%), depress…
Read articleA preprint in 84 older adults with epilepsy found that abnormal Alzheimer's-related blood biomarkers were common, but the biomarker categories did not line up neatly with cognitive impairmen…
Read articleA 2026 CNS Drugs review argues that seletracetam, an abandoned second-generation racetam antiseizure drug, may be unusually well suited for seizure rescue: early oral studies involved 171 pa…
Read articleA 337-person SYNGAP1-DEE registry preprint found caregiver-reported autistic behavior scores linked most strongly to atypical absence seizures (n = 77; FDR-adjusted p = .001), while peak sei…
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