http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay News) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel has unanimously backed a device that lowers the rate of seizures among people with epilepsy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fda-panel-brain-epilepsy_1.html Neuroscience Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:19:27 EST news281013561 (HealthDay News) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will weigh on Friday the merits of a new therapy for some people with epilepsy who have seizures that don't respond to medication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fda-panel-brain-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:50:01 EST news280673844 (HealthDay)—Besides helping to boost mood, antidepressants may also reduce seizure frequency for people with epilepsy, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-antidepressants-seizures-people-epilepsy.html Medications Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:20:02 EST news273776098 A new type of anti-epilepsy medication that selectively targets proteins in the brain that control excitability may significantly reduce seizure frequency in people whose recurrent seizures have been resistant to even the latest medications, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-medication-patients-frequent-uncontrollable-seizures.html Neuroscience Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:00:06 EST news253973295 An article by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), New York Medical College (NYMC), and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (CCPS) reviews evidence that yoga may be effective in treating patients with stress-related psychological and medical conditions such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and cardiac disease. Their theory, which currently appears online in Medical Hypotheses, could be used to develop specific mind-body practices for the prevention and treatment of these conditions in conjunction with standard treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-yoga-ease-stress-medical-psychological.html Health Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:55:43 EST news250257323 A combination of two common drugs, lamotrigine and valproate, is more effective in treating difficult-to control epilepsy than other anti-epileptic regimens, according to a University of Washington report to be published online this week in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-superior-drug-combo-difficult-to-control-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:20:12 EST news243102003 For the first time, a new research methodology recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration has been used to demonstrate that converting patients from one anti-epileptic drug to another - in this case, lamotrigine extended-release (LTG XR) - is well-tolerated, effective and safe. The work by Jacqueline French and her team, from New York University in the US, illustrates how the new methodology addresses ethical issues inherent in more traditional study designs. It is published online in Springer's journal, Neurotherapeutics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-ethical-epilepsy-treatments.html Neuroscience Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:19:48 EST news242313386 A recent multi-center study determined that women with generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS) had a greater number of seizures during anovulatory cycles—menstrual cycles where an egg is not released—than in cycles where ovulation occurs. According to the study publishing today in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), reproductive steroids may play a role in GTCS occurrence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-greater-seizure-frequency-women-epilepsy.html Medical research Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:07:46 EST news229831647