Advance in Research on the Treatment of Intractable Epilepsy in Children

Epilepsy is a common nervous system diseases seen in children,which is obviously different from adults′epilepsy in pathogeny,clinical feature and therapy,the pharmacokinetics characteristics of anti-epilepsy drugs(AEDs)in children are different from adults too.Besides,both epileptic seizure and AEDs affect children′s behaviour,learning,education,social contact and development of emotion.Recently,with continuous innovations and expanding,and people have known more about epilepsy and epileptic syndrome,there is some breakthrough in the treatment of intractable epilepsy.Nowadays,the main treatment of intractable epilepsy are drugs,operation,vagus nerve stimulation,ketogenic diet and psychological cure.