OUH - Complex Epilepsy Research Group

Research at the National Centre for Epilepsy Complex Epilepsy Research Group

Clinical research in patients with difficult-to-treat epilepsy, with particular focus on:

Characterisation of different epilepsy syndromes (genotype/phenotype)
Clinical pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs
Different diagnostic and treatment options; EEG, pharmacotherapy, surgery, VNS, diets
Psychosocial, psychiatric and neurocognitive aspects
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Recent publications

Berman E, Pariente G, Erenburg N, Hamed R, Landmark CJ, Kovo M, Eyal S (2025)
Folate transfer across the placenta during late pregnancy in women with epilepsy: A cross-sectional, two-center study
Epilepsia (in press)
DOI 10.1111/epi.18575, PubMed 40782172

Kostov KH, Kostov H, Larsson PG, Henning O, Egge A, Lossius MI, Peltola J (2025)
Turning up the current - optimizing stimulation parameters with vagus nerve stimulation in a nationwide Norwegian cohort (The NOR-current study)
Brain Stimul, 18 (4), 1212-1219
DOI 10.1016/j.brs.2025.06.016, PubMed 40588127

Gunnarsdottir G, Rossholt ME, Nordvik T, Wendel K, Aas MF, Skarbø AB, Aulie VS, Stiris T, Ramm-Pettersen A, Pfeiffer HC, Moltu SJ (2025)
High dose arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acid in very preterm infants and neurodevelopment at 2 years - A double-blind randomized controlled trial
Clin Nutr, 51, 198-205
DOI 10.1016/j.clnu.2025.05.019, PubMed 40580806