New 'rogue waves' test pinpoints epilepsy seizure brain zones
Analysing 'rogue brainwaves' in people with epilepsy could help doctors better treat patients needing brain surgery.
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Analysing 'rogue brainwaves' in people with epilepsy could help doctors better treat patients needing brain surgery.
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In response to seizures, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a network of flattened tubes in the cell that packages and transports proteins, triggers a stress response that reduces brain activity and seizure severity. The new ...
Sep 26, 2019
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Could a chemical produced by the brain that regulates mood, sleep and breathing also be protective in people with epilepsy? New research has found that higher levels of serotonin in the blood after a seizure are linked to ...
Sep 4, 2019
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For people with epilepsy, it's not just the severity of seizures that's a problem: their unpredictability also takes a psychological toll.
Jul 19, 2019
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An experimental treatment given to mice after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) reduced damage almost to the levels of mice that never had a TBI, researchers at UT Health San Antonio reported. The study was published July 4 ...
Jul 17, 2019
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For the over one million Canadians living with traumatic brain injury, the likelihood of developing epilepsy increases significantly because of their injury. When faced with stress or anxiety, that likelihood increases even ...
May 17, 2019
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Scientists at McGill University have developed a new method to study how seizures arise in the healthy brain. Using laser light guided through ultra-thin optic fibers in the brain of rodents, the researchers "turned on" light-sensitive ...
Mar 28, 2019
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Motion recognition technology is being used to help neurologists in the study of patients' behaviour during seizures, to provide clues on the sub-type of epilepsy the patient has and identify unusual seizure movements that ...
Mar 26, 2019
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Pedro Irazoqui had just enjoyed a huge lobster dinner.
Jan 10, 2019
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One of four patients admitted to hospitals for evaluation of seizures don't have epilepsy but rather have a debilitating and difficult to diagnose condition known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, or PNES.
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