[HT-04] Hot Topics 04「Emerging new treatments for epilepsy 2024」

[HT-04-2] The state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment of non-convulsive status epilepticus

Lawrence J. Hirsch (Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, Yale University)

Lawrence J. Hirsch, M.D. is Professor of Neurology, Chief of the Division of Epilepsy and EEG, and Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, all at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He has held leadership positions in the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS), American Epilepsy Society, American Academy of Neurology, and the Epilepsy Foundation, and is lead author of the 2012 and 2021 ACNS guidelines on critical care EEG terminology. He is founder and former chair of the Critical Care EEG Monitoring Research Consortium and co-chair of the medical advisory board of the NORSE Institute. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts and more than 100 reviews, editorials or book chapters on topics including status epilepticus, all aspects of EEG including intracranial recordings and brain monitoring in the critically ill, brain stimulation, epilepsy surgery, seizure clusters, rescue medications, and anti-seizure medication use. He has won multiple teaching awards and is co-author of the first-ever atlas on EEG in critical care, now with multiple editions.