ADVANCES IN EPILEPSY RESEARCH 64~TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, USA

摘要

The 64~th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) was held in San Antonio, Texas, USA, on December 3-7, 2010. The meeting was attended by both basic and clinical scientists from diverse educational and ethnic backgrounds. Discussed at the meeting were some newer advances in the management of patients suffering from epilepsy disorder. The talks were divided into symposia, presidential lectures, junior investigational workshops and poster sessions. The main emphasis of the meeting was to discuss novel therapies in the management of epileptic patients who are suffering from pharma-coresistance and where polypharmacy could be advocated. Despite the availability of more than 20 antiepileptic drugs, there is still a huge population of epileptic patients who are not symptom-free. The fear of having a next seizure attack (when and where) is always a matter of concern in these patients. The present meeting also laid emphasis on treating epilepsy in neonates, one of the biggest challenges in the field of neurology. The meeting provided, among researchers and clinicians, an international forum for the exchange of recent advances in the field of epilepsy. The present review attempts to discuss some of the lectures presented at the meeting.