Newswise — Listen below, download the episode or watch on YouTube . Find Sharp Waves episodes on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , iHeart Radio , Stitcher . Besides seizures, people with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies can experience a wide variety of symptoms, including sleep problems, vision problems, and behavioral issues.
Dr. Scott Demarest discusses how neurologists may be able to address some of these issues, potentially improving outcomes and quality of life. Sharp Waves episodes are meant for informational purposes only, and not as clinical or medical advice.
Podcast Transcript [00:00:08] Dr. Scott Demarest: My name is Scott Demarest. I'm a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist, and I focus both my clinical practice and my research on genetic causes of early life epilepsy and often developmental and epileptic encephalopathies.
In addition to my research role, I am also the clinical director for precision medicine at our hospital, which is in Colorado. I'm at Children's Hospital, Colorado and the University of Colorado as faculty. [00:00:37] ILAE: Thanks.
Today we're here to talk about outcomes other than seizures in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies. If you could start by explaining for listeners who might not be familiar with them, what DEEs are—I'm just going to shorten it because it's very long—what they are, and maybe give us a few examples of the more common ones. Although, as I understand, they're all quite rare.
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