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

Gjefsen E, Bråten LCH, Goll GL, Wigemyr M, Bolstad N, Valberg M, Schistad EI, Marchand GH, Granviken F, Selmer KK, Froholdt A, Haugen AJ, Dagestad MH, Vetti N, Bakland G, Lie BA, Haavardsholm EA, Nilsen AT, Holmgard TE, Kadar TI, Kvien T, Skouen JS, Grøvle L, Brox JI, Espeland A et al. (2020)
The effect of infliximab in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes (the BackToBasic study): study protocol of a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial
BMC Musculoskelet Disord, 21 (1), 698
DOI 10.1186/s12891-020-03720-5, PubMed 33087100

Nakken KO, Sætre E (2020)
KO. Nakken og E. Sætre svarer
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 140 (14)
DOI 10.4045/tidsskr.20.0747, PubMed 33070597

Heger K, Lund C, Larsen Burns M, Bjørnvold M, Sætre E, Johannessen SI, Johannessen Landmark C (2020)
A retrospective review of changes and challenges in the use of antiseizure medicines in Dravet syndrome in Norway
Epilepsia Open, 5 (3), 432-441
DOI 10.1002/epi4.12413, PubMed 32913951

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