Barbara C Jobst, Kelly R Conner, Douglas Coulter, Itzhak Fried, Shanna Guilfoyle, Lawrence J Hirsch, R Edward Hogan, Jennifer L Hopp, Dean Naritoku, Madona Plueger, Catherine Schevon, Gigi Smith, Ignacio Valencia, William Davis Gaillard
Due to COVID-19 a live, in-person meeting was not possible for the American Epilepsy Society in 2020. An alternative, virtual event, the AES2020, was held instead. AES2020 was a great success with 4679 attendees from 70 countries. The educational content was outstanding and spanned the causes, treatments, and outcomes from epileptic encephalopathy to the iatrogenicity of epilepsy interventions to neurocognitive disabilities to the approach to neocortical epilepsies. New gene therapy approaches such as antisense oligonucleotide treatment for Dravet syndrome were introduced and neuromodulation devices were discussed...
May 16, 2021: Epilepsy Currents