The adjunct prof of neurology astatine Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School spoke astir the precocious hazard of epilepsy for the older colonisation astatine the 2022 AES yearly meeting. [WATCH TIME: 1 minute]
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“I deliberation it's truly important that erstwhile we're doing patient-oriented research, we're reasoning astir the patients and their needs, and what's important to them, and trying to absorption our probe connected those things.”
Patient-oriented probe is captious to knowing much astir however antithetic types of patients respond to treatments and allows determination to beryllium a much personalized attack to care. In epilepsy, much probe that centers astir patients arsenic clinicians is needed, and tin assistance larn much astir the encephalon upset done a antithetic perspective.
Alice Lam, MD, PhD, gave a speech successful astir focusing connected patient-oriented probe with knowing epilepsy successful a symposium astatine the 2022 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, held December 2 to 6, successful Nashville, Tennessee.1 In the session, she spoke connected the value of patient-oriented probe successful epilepsy and gave examples of opportunities wherever patient-centered probe whitethorn beryllium considered by clinicians.
Lam, adjunct prof of neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, precocious sat down with NeurologyLive® at the 2022 AES gathering and spoke astir the existent probe understudied successful epilepsy. She besides mentioned imaginable nationalist wellness situations successful the adjacent fewer decades and the nexus with epilepsy.
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REFERENCES
1. Lam A, Joesphson C. Advancing Epilepsy Care and Understanding Through Patient-oriented Research. Presented at: AES Annual Meeting; December 2-6, 2022; Nashville, TN, and virtual. Susan Spencer Symposium.
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