A team of epilepsy specialists at UC San Francisco has developed a method to predict 24-hour seizure risk. The discovery, which may be scalable to large numbers of patients, could help to improve the quality of life for the ...
Jul 18, 2024
0
30
For the past 100 years, health care practitioners have valued electroencephalograms, or EEGs, for their clinical use—that is, their ability to visualize brain activity and to enable the diagnosis of seizures in patients ...
Jul 17, 2024
0
0
Changes in climate are possible trigger factors for seizure-related hospitalizations in patients with epilepsy, according to a study published online June 11 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Jul 15, 2024
0
0
Five cases of neonatal enterovirus infection have been reported in San Diego, highlighting the risks and need for timely identification and treatment, according to data published in the July 11 issue of the U.S. Centers for ...
Jul 14, 2024
0
2
When it comes to accurately diagnosing a disease, you might think you need expensive, high-tech machinery and equipment capable of looking deep beneath the skin at what's going on in the body. But while these high-tech implements ...
Jul 8, 2024
0
10
Port wine stains—capillary malformations on the skin—are the most visible manifestation of Sturge-Weber syndrome. However, up to 60% of babies with birthmarks in high-risk locations (forehead and upper eyelid) also have ...
Jun 27, 2024
0
0
A teenager who is the first patient to take part in a UCL-sponsored clinical trial to use deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat epilepsy has seen his daytime seizures reduce by 80%.
Jun 24, 2024
0
1
The Federal Drug Administration has approved a clinical trial to test the effectiveness of an electronic grid that records brain activity during surgery. The device was developed by engineers at the University of California ...
Jun 19, 2024
0
1
Patients with neuroglial tumors are ideal epilepsy surgical candidates, with good long-term outcomes observed, according to a study published in Frontiers in Neurology.
Jun 17, 2024
0
0
About 50 million people globally have epilepsy. Half of these are women.
Jun 13, 2024
0
0
