Neuroscience
Heat a trigger for seizures
Fever is the most common trigger for seizures in children between 5 months and 6 years of age. But the underlying cause is not always clear.
Sep 7, 2017
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Epilepsy
Neuroscience
Predicting brain surgery outcomes
For patients with a common type of epilepsy known as temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the only treatment choices are anti-seizure drugs or surgery to remove the focus of the seizures in part of the brain known as the hippocampus.
Aug 21, 2017
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Neuroscience
Number of Americans with epilepsy at record level
(HealthDay)—More Americans than ever are living with epilepsy, federal health officials reported Thursday.
Aug 10, 2017
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Neuroscience
Most newborns with epilepsy benefit from genetic testing, study finds
Because of genetic testing, Orion Maynard's parents knew the cause of his epilepsy weeks after he was born. The results influenced his treatment, qualified him for immediate intervention services and led to the discovery ...
Aug 3, 2017
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists develop new forms of diagnosis and therapy for temporal lobe epilepsy
What if you fell off your bicycle today and ten years later you developed epilepsy? Relationships like this might appear far-fetched but are entirely possible, say Freiburg researchers. Using the latest MRI scanning procedures, ...
Aug 3, 2017
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Neuroscience
Genetic testing helps detect cause of early life epilepsy
Chicago...A study published in JAMA Pediatrics supports the use of genetic testing, especially with sequencing, as first-line diagnostic method for young children with seizures. Specific genetic factors were found to be the ...
Jul 31, 2017
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Neuroscience
Despite lack of efficacy data, surprising consensus in pediatric anti-epilepsy med scripts
The number of available anti-seizure medications has exploded in the past two decades, going from just a handful of medicines available in the 1990s to more than 20 now. Once the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves ...
Jul 19, 2017
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Neuroscience
Epilepsy biomarkers pave way for noninvasive diagnosis, better treatments
Researchers have identified a unique metabolic signature associated with epileptic brain tissue that causes seizures. The chemical biomarker can be detected noninvasively using technology based on magnetic resonance imaging. ...
Jul 18, 2017
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Neuroscience
Study examines self-management intervention in patients with epilepsy
A new study has found that a multi-component self-management intervention (MCI) for adults with epilepsy may be an important tool to increase efficiency in epilepsy care.
Jun 7, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain damage can make sideways faces more memorable, and give us 'emotion blindness'
People with damage to a crucial part of the brain fail to recognise facial emotions, but they unexpectedly find faces looking sideways more memorable researchers have found.
Jun 6, 2017
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