Today, the way a physician determines how many seizures a person with epilepsy has had is through the patient's own record of seizure activity. Despite all the technological advances in devices monitoring the human body, ...
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Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis' McKelvey School of Engineering have combined artificial intelligence with systems theory to develop a more efficient way to detect and accurately identify an epileptic ...
Jun 29, 2020
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Scientists have found that adding cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to standardised medical care gives patients with dissociative seizures longer periods of seizure freedom, less bothersome seizures and a greater quality ...
May 21, 2020
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If the immune system attacks its own body, it can often have devastating consequences: autoantibodies bind to the body's structures, triggering functional disorders. The receptors for glutamate, a neurotransmitter, can also ...
Feb 24, 2020
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Seizure disorders in babies are frightening and heartbreaking. A new basic science breakthrough offers hope for a potential treatment for rare developmental and epileptic encephalopathies resulting from a single genetic mutation. ...
Feb 20, 2020
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Though Genette Hofmann is still using her brain, last month she donated a bit of it—to science.
Feb 11, 2020
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A new study published in Seizure gives insight into the short-term outcome of patients treated for status epilepticus in Kuopio University Hospital in Finland. The researchers found a 9 percent risk of death and a 32 percent ...
Jan 24, 2020
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One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments. For that reason, experimental models are used, such as rodent studies, ...
Jan 9, 2020
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People with drug-resistant epilepsy also can have deleterious neuropsychiatric symptoms like anxiety, depression, psychosis and impaired memory. These have negative impacts on quality of life, and there is an unmet need to ...
Jan 3, 2020
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A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found, in animal models, that they can "switch off" epileptic seizures. The findings, published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
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