UCSFepilepsy

Extraordinary work by current (Dr. Nilika Singhal) and former (Dr. Joseph Sullivan) UCSF Pediatric Epilepsy faculty: Zorevunersen in Children and Adolescents with Dravet Syndrome | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

In the Human Epilepsy Project multicenter cohort study, most individuals with newly diagnosed focal #epilepsy required over a year and multiple antiseizure medications to become seizure free. ja.ma/43vP03Q

In the Human Epilepsy Project multicenter cohort study, most individuals with newly diagnosed focal #epilepsy required over a year and multiple antiseizure medications to become seizure free. ja.ma/3JuUTY6

Among adults with newly diagnosed focal #Epilepsy, suicidality at diagnosis was associated with more than double the risk of future drug resistance vs mood or anxiety disorders alone. ja.ma/4sCVIPS

Remarkable work by Dr. Joseph Sullivan during his time at UCSF!

Suicidality and Treatment Resistance in Focal Epilepsy jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Proud to be a part of this important work

New work by adult epileptologist/neuroscientist extraordinaire Patrick Hullett MD, PhD and the @ChangLabUcsf -- showing the human frontal lobe receives fast, low-level speech information in parallel with early speech areas! Published in @NatureComms 🎉🧠 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our own Sharon Chiang, MD, PhD has been selected as the recipient of the ANA-Persyst Professional Development Award! This award is provided to assist early career academics specializing in the field of epilepsy reach their goals of becoming clinician neuroscientists - Congrats!🎉

Thrilled to welcome the following neurology residents to the UCSF Epilepsy Fellowship, starting 2026! Divyesh Doddapaneni, University of Colorado Rachel Eby, Oregon Health Sciences University Brandon Wei, Houston Methodist Erin Yeagle, UCSF Congratulations! @UCSFepilepsy #NRMP

"It can be hard to figure out where that bad spot or network is and precisely how far it extends, especially when brain imaging studies look normal. Our thought was similar to high-resolution TVs—more detail might be better." medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-e…

Congrats to 1st-author Ebenezer Chinedu-Eneh!!! 🎉🧠

Are HIGHER densities of intracranial contacts on depths/strips/grids BETTER for finding the seizure-onset zone and its margins? A carefully controlled study by the Kleen Lab @UCSF is published today in @TheLancet's open access journal @eBioMedicine! thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

UCSF Epilepsy Division Chief Vikram Rao MD PhD featured in The Academic @theacademic0 🎉

Read about a "neural heartbeat in the hippocampus" that forecasts epileptic seizures, featured in this recent article in The Academic (alluding to the groundbreaking study published this summer in Nature Medicine by Vikram Rao, @ANKhambhati, and others): theacademic.com/snapshots-of-a…

Momentary snapshots of hippocampal brain activity may provide daily seizure forecasts in epilepsy @UCSFEpilepsy, @NeurosurgUCSF, @ANKhambhati, @ChangLabUCSF #seizurecycles, #epilepsy nature.com/articles/s4159…

This groundbreaking work demonstrates that brain state and location of seizure foci can impact the efficacy of RNS - a cutting edge treatment for drug resistant epilepsy. @NeurosurgUCSF @UCSFHospitals @NeuroPace #epilepsy

Congratulations to our spectacular epilepsy fellow Sharon Chiang and brilliant division chief Vikram Rao for their new paper in BRAIN: State-dependent effects of responsive neurostimulation depend on seizure localization academic.oup.com/brain/article-…

CONGRATS! Incredible work by Ankit Khambhati @ANKhambhati, Edward Chang @ChangLabUcsf, Max Baud @Wysscenter, and Vikram Rao @UCSFepilepsy 🎉🧠💻🔮🌩️ Read about their groundbreaking discovery of brain patterns that predict high risk of upcoming seizures: ucsf.edu/news/2024/07/4…

Opportunity 🎧📹! If you seek inspiration from a clinician-scientist who has intellect, knowledge, and empathy for patients all in one(!) check out Jon Kleen 🤩 from the @UCSFHospitals Medical Center 👇! Watch/listen/read, here 👇! 📹 YouTube shorturl.at/WHNIC 🎧 Podcast shorturl.at/TUaBw 📖 Transcript, video, podcast, & more on Jon shorturl.at/kW5xl In today's @EpilepsySparks Insights podcast, we have: - Forgetting to bring up memory issues in appointments...! - Intracranial recording benefits - Impacts of epilepsy on family and caregivers - Seizure control vs memory? Potential treatment drawbacks - Neuroplasticity & remapping - limitations - Home Based Self-Management and Cognitive Training Changes Lives (HOBSCOTCH) by the @CDCgov - Driving and accidents from seizures Watch/listen/read, here 👇! 📹 YouTube shorturl.at/WHNIC 🎧 Podcast shorturl.at/TUaBw 📖 Transcript, video, podcast, & more on Jon shorturl.at/kW5xl #cognition #memory #epilepsy #jonkleen #neuroplasticity #CDC

Momentary snapshots of hippocampal brain activity may provide daily seizure forecasts in epilepsy @UCSFEpilepsy, @NeurosurgUCSF, @ANKhambhati, @ChangLabUCSF #seizurecycles, #epilepsy nature.com/articles/s4159…