Yale Childhood Absence Epilepsy Study

12/18/2017

Hello friends,

We are starting a new study to look at driving safety in epilepsy patients who no longer have clinical seizures. Our hope is to find objective ways to predict when such patients can safely drive.

Inclusion criteria:
•15 years and up
•Have spike-wave discharges on EEG without having a clinical seizure in the last month
•No history of disorders that impair driving

To more information, visit our site at http://yalecae.com/CAE_Study_open/For_Patients.html

To participate, contact us at [email protected] or 203-494-7229.

Thank you for your help!

While some of our patients with epilepsy have no clinical seizures they may still have seizure-like EEG patterns (called spike-wave discharges). We still have no objective ways of determining the influence of these patterns on the driving safety of patients. We ask for your help in conducting a rese...

06/13/2013

We are recruiting participants for our study!

Inclusion criteria:

•6 years and up
•Diagnosed with childhood absence epilepsy or juvenile absence epilepsy
•No history of myoclonic or tonic-clonic seizures

To more information, visit our site at http://www.yalecae.com/CAE_Study/For_Patients.html. To participate, contact us at [email protected] or203-815-7231.

Updated 6/13/13

07/26/2011

We're still recruiting for the summer! Visit www.yalecae.com or email us at [email protected] if you'd like to participate.

03/03/2011

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02/14/2011

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02/02/2011

Our epilepsy team led by Dr. Hal Blumenfeld at Yale Neurology is investigating the mechanisms of impaired attention in childhood absence epilepsy.

06/03/2010

New website up! Please go to www.yalecae.com for more information about the study.