Earlier this year, thin-film microgrid arrays developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and used in neurologist Jon Kleen's patients at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) showed that hippocampal ...
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Despite medications, surgery and neurostimulation devices, many people with epilepsy continue to have seizures. The unpredictable nature of seizures is severely limiting. If seizures could be reliably forecast, people with ...
Nov 9, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have uncovered how problems in cortical microcircuits in the brain can trigger epileptic seizures. The researchers say that targeting the problem could lead ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Oxygen-deprived newborns who undergo cooling therapy to protect their brains are at an elevated risk of seizures and brain damage during the rewarming period, which could be a precursor of disability or death, a new study ...
Oct 18, 2021
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For the more than 15 million epilepsy patients around the world whose disease is not controlled by medication, the only remaining option is removal of the parts of the brain where seizures originate. Even then, surgery is ...
Oct 12, 2021
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Research from pharmacologists at the University of Sydney provides new insights into how cannabis extracts may work to treat epilepsy.
Oct 5, 2021
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Whenever we learn, remember or forget something, a surprisingly active role is played by cannabis-like substances in the brain. Researchers at Utrecht University found that the substances actively balance connections in the ...
Oct 4, 2021
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Epileptic seizures trigger the rapid synthesis and release of a substance mimicked by marijuana's most psychoactive component, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have learned. This substance is called 2-arachidonoylglycerol, ...
Aug 4, 2021
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For 29 years, from the time she was 12, Rashetta Higgins had been wracked by epileptic seizures—as many as 10 a week—in her sleep, at school and at work. She lost four jobs over 10 years. One seizure brought her down ...
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University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a previously unknown repair process in the brain that they hope could be harnessed and enhanced to treat seizure-related brain injuries.
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