Epilepsy affects nearly one percent of the global population, making it one of the most common neurological disorders. While two-thirds of patients with epilepsy respond well to pharmacological treatment or are eligible for ...
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The brain is a precision instrument. Its function depends on finely calibrated electrical activity triggering the release of chemical messages between neurons.
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Researchers in the lab of Associate Professor of Biology Suzanne Paradis have discovered a novel treatment for reducing seizure activity in the brains of rodents, a discovery they hope might one day help people living with ...
Aug 1, 2018
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Gracin Hahne was 3½ months old when she had her first seizure. "I was changing her diaper," said Heidi Hahne, Gracin's mom. "I also noticed something else: There were light patches, like abnormal pigmentations, on her skin."
Apr 20, 2018
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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe they have found a method that in the future could help people suffering from epilepsy so severe that all current treatment is ineffective. "In mice studies, we succeeded in ...
Apr 17, 2018
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Epilepsy—a condition that affects an estimated 65 million people worldwide—can be a difficult condition to treat. A team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mayo Clinic have developed a method with the ...
Jan 11, 2018
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New research shows that in a mouse model of childhood absence epilepsy, brain activity is perturbed between seizures. The researchers speculate that this could underlie cognitive problems of the disease, which can persist ...
Sep 13, 2017
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At the onset of an epileptic seizure, differing characteristics of brain tissue surrounding the seizure's origin site may determine which of two main patterns of brain activity will be seen, according to a study in PLOS Computational ...
May 4, 2017
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Imagine a seismograph - the instrument that measures and records earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - for your brain. Except this one has a wireless link to a device implanted in your head that stops epileptic seizures at ...
Apr 11, 2017
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that affects nearly 2.3 million people worldwide. MS is triggered when the immune system attacks the protective covering around nerve fibers, ...
Feb 21, 2017
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