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County-level analysis of nearly 5 million Medicare beneficiaries identified more than 10-fold geographic variation in late-onset epilepsy incidence, with insufficient sleep, heat index, and lack of vehicle access among the strongest area-level predictors.

Most newly diagnosed focal epilepsy patients required more than a year and more than one antiseizure medication to reach seizure freedom in a multicenter cohort.

Late-breaking sessions at AAN 2026 spanned rare disease, migraine prevention, epilepsy, FTD, MS, early Alzheimer’s, neuropathic pain, and stiff person syndrome, with mixed signals across disease-modifying and symptomatic therapies.

The American Epilepsy Society released the first dedicated treatment guideline for infantile epilepsy. Two strong surgical recommendations sit alongside conditional pharmacological and dietary guidance.

The study objectives were to compare the outcomes of 6-year-old children of women with epilepsy (WWE) vs those of healthy pregnant women (HW), and to assess the association of outcomes to third-trimester antiseizure medications (ASM) exposures.

Although most of these patients had no response to multiple seizure medications, the 9 who were treated with vitamin B6 supplementation had resolution of their seizures.