News tagged with pediatric epilepsy
Depression common among children with temporal lobe epilepsy
A new study determined that children and adolescents with seizures involving the temporal lobe are likely to have clinically significant behavioral problems and psychiatric illness, especially depression. Findings published ...
Neuroscience
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Seizures in half peds patients with intracranial hemorrhage
(HealthDay)—Acute symptomatic seizures occur in about half of pediatric patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and are often a presenting symptom, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in JAMA Ne ...
Neuroscience
Feb 08, 2013 |
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Infant, child stroke survivors prone to seizures, epilepsy
About one-third of American infants and children who suffer bleeding into brain tissue, may later have seizures and as many as 13 percent will develop epilepsy within two years, according to new research reported at the American ...
Neuroscience
Feb 07, 2013 |
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Fasting may benefit patients with epilepsy, study suggests
Children with persistent and drug-resistant seizures treated with the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet may get an added therapeutic benefit from periodic fasting, according to a small Johns Hopkins Children's Center ...
Medical research
Dec 07, 2012 |
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Using unique combination of diet and radiation therapy, researchers successfully destroy brain tumor cells
A team of brain cancer researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has effectively treated brain tumor cells using a unique combination of diet and radiation therapy. The study, ...
Cancer
Dec 04, 2012 |
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Pediatric epilepsy impacts sleep for the child and parents
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston have determined that pediatric epilepsy significantly impacts sleep patterns for the child and parents. According to the study available in Epilepsia, a jour ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 17, 2012 |
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Fast ripples confirmed to be valuable biomarker of area responsible for seizure activity in children
New research focusing on high-frequency oscillations, termed ripples and fast ripples, recorded by intracranial electroencephalography (EEG), may provide an important marker for the localization of the brain region responsible ...
Medical research
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Research reveals effectiveness of seizure treatments for children with autism
Physicians will have a better guide for more effectively managing treatment of children experiencing seizures related to autism with the results of a study by researchers at Arizona State University and the University of ...
Medical research
Jun 02, 2011 |
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