In children with Dravet syndrome, the researchers found significant mitochondrial dysfunction in their LCLs. These cells had lower energy production, with particular problems in mitochondrial ...

Stoke Therapeutics is nearing FDA sign-off on a groundbreaking Phase 3 clinical trial designed to prove that its experimental drug for Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, can both reduce ...

The family switched doctors and finally learned – through genetic testing – what was wrong. "Dravet Syndrome, seizures and what goes along with it usually changes every year," Nicole Watson said.

Dravet Syndrome impacts 1 in about every 15,700 infants in the U.S. Most cases are caused by a mutation of the SCN1A gene, which is important for proper brain cell function.

Stoke Therapeutics’ Dravet syndrome drug has been freed from a partial hold, clearing the way for the construction of a phase 3 program. While studies for STK-001, now known as zorevunersen, had ...

More information: Anna G. Figueroa et al, Mitochondrial respiration defects in lymphoblast cell lines from patients with Dravet syndrome, Epilepsia (2025). DOI: 10.1111/epi.18382 ...

An 18-year-old man with the Dravet syndrome began to have fever and increased seizure activity. He had a 2-month history of foot swelling, and imaging revealed bone marrow edema and fractures. A di ...

A woman has completed a challenge to walk 5km a day during the month of May in order to raise funds and awareness of the rare condition she has. Lucy Murphy, 25, from Exeter, has Dravet Syndrome ...

Laney McGowan, a 6-year-old with Dravet Syndrome, returned home Thursday from an extended hospital stay for the first time since the holidays.

A couple in England say they have had to resuscitate their young daughter's "limp and lifeless body" more than 100 times due to a rare condition called Dravet syndrome.

B was first diagnosed with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) due to the frequency and severity of his seizures. He was later confirmed to have the genetic mutation that indicates Dravet's.