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

Kverneland M, Nakken KO, Hofoss D, Skogan AH, Iversen PO, Selmer KK, Lossius MI (2023)
Health-related quality of life in adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy treated with modified Atkins diet in a randomized clinical trial
Epilepsia (in press)
DOI 10.1111/epi.17585, PubMed 36923995

Boen R, Kaufmann T, Frei O, van der Meer D, Djurovic S, Andreassen OA, Selmer KK, Alnæs D, Sønderby IE (2023)
No signs of neurodegenerative effects in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 copy number variant carriers in the UK Biobank
Transl Psychiatry, 13 (1), 61
DOI 10.1038/s41398-023-02358-w, PubMed 36807331

Karadag N, Shadrin AA, O'Connell K, Hindley GFL, Rahman Z, Parker N, Bahrami S, Fominykh V, Cheng W, Holen B, Alvestad S, Taubøll E, Steen NE, Djurovic S, Dale AM, Frei O, Andreassen OA, Smeland OB (2023)
Identification of novel genomic risk loci shared between common epilepsies and psychiatric disorders
Brain (in press)
DOI 10.1093/brain/awad038, PubMed 36757824

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