While medications help control seizures in many people with epilepsy, approximately 30 to 40 percent have what is known as intractable epilepsy and find no relief from drugs.
Dec 23, 2020
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Medicinal cannabis could offer patients significant relief from intractable epilepsy, but cost and access barriers remain, a review has found.
Dec 18, 2020
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Within the staggeringly complex networks of neurons which make up our brains, electric currents display intricate dynamics in the electric currents they convey. To better understand how these networks behave, researchers ...
Dec 8, 2020
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(HealthDay)—More than half of children treated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MRgLITT) achieve seizure freedom at one-year follow-up, according to a study presented at the ...
Dec 7, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Sudden, epilepsy-related death is more common than thought in infants and children, a new study suggests.
Dec 4, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts are more common in children and teens with epilepsy than previously known, and they should be screened for such problems, researchers report.
Dec 4, 2020
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An international study has found a link between the brain's network connections and gray matter atrophy caused by certain types of epilepsy, a major step forward in our understanding of the disease.
Dec 2, 2020
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In new research presented at Euroanaesthesia (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care [ESAIC]), doctors report a highly unusual case of a right-handed patient performing unconscious ...
Nov 30, 2020
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My daughter is in her 30s, and she has had epilepsy for years. Lately, her medication hasn't been effectively preventing seizures. She's on a new medication, but her health care provider says that there ...
Nov 12, 2020
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Epilepsy is a neurologic disorder that affects 3 million Americans and nearly 65 million people worldwide. Unprovoked seizures that affect people of all ages are a hallmark of epilepsy. November is National Epilepsy Awareness ...
Nov 5, 2020
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