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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Today, the way a physician determines how many seizures a person with epilepsy has had is through the patient's own record of seizure activity. Despite all the technological advances in devices monitoring the human body, ...
Aug 27, 2020
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Most of the time, Eva Wadvinski is a typical college student. Then suddenly, she isn't.
Nov 21, 2019
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A doctor at University of Virginia Children's is using an elegant new approach to mapping brain activity to shed light on what happens during seizures in newborns that can lead to behavioral issues and learning disabilities ...
Oct 30, 2019
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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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