Novel compounds arrested epilepsy development in mice
A team led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of LSU Health New Orleans' Neuroscience Center of Excellence, has developed neuroprotective compounds that may prevent the development...
View ArticleSuicide rate for people with epilepsy exceeds levels in general population
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control studied the prevalence of suicide among people with epilepsy compared to the population overall...
View ArticleA virtual brain helps decrypt epilepsy
Researchers at CNRS, INSERM, Aix-Marseille University and AP-HM have just created a virtual brain that can reconstitute the brain of a person affected by epilepsy for the first time. From this work we...
View ArticleFour out of five kids with epilepsy have other health problems: study
(HealthDay)—Nearly 80 percent of children who have the seizure disorder epilepsy also have other health conditions, such as digestive troubles and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a large...
View ArticleLeaky calcium triggers brainstem blackout that results in sudden cardiac death
Epilepsy is an extremely common disorder affecting people of all ages, from infants through teenagers to older adults. One of the most mysterious things about this disorder is that about 6 percent of...
View ArticleSome psychotic disorders may be induced by drugs designed to combat effects...
Today Brain publishes a new study indicating that antiepileptic drugs designed to reduce seizures, may also induce psychotic disorders in some patients.
View ArticleTreatments available for drug-resistant epilepsy
One in 26 people will develop epilepsy – a chronic disease characterized by unpredictable seizures—in their lifetime.
View ArticleNovel inhibitory brain receptor may be mechanism for remission of epilepsy in...
More than half of children with epilepsy outgrow their seizures, yet the mechanism underlying this remission is unknown.
View ArticleGlobal crowdsourcing contest to predict epileptic seizures begins
An online contest in association with online platform Kaggle, the Mayo Clinic, University of Pennsylvania will let the globe's keenest data scientists loose on the holy grail of epilepsy research—an...
View ArticleEpilepsy surgery found safe and cost-effective
Research has shown that surgery can provide important benefits for patients with epilepsy. Now a new study finds that it is also cost-effective.
View ArticleResearch identifies brain network that controls spread of seizures
A flurry of coordinated activity in a brain-spanning network of neurons may sound like the formation of a brilliant new idea, but it is actually the description of a seizure. Understanding why and how...
View ArticlePeople with epilepsy face increased risks of discrimination and other...
In a recent analysis, people with epilepsy were seven-fold more likely to have reported experiencing discrimination due to health problems than the general population. This risk was greater than other...
View ArticleContinuous electrical brain stimulation helps patients with epilepsy
When surgery and medication don't help people with epilepsy, electrical stimulation of the brain has been a treatment of last resort. Unfortunately, typical approaches, such as vagal nerve stimulation...
View ArticleHow the brain consolidates memories during sleep
Researchers in the group of Prof Dr Nikolai Axmacher at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have studied which brain processes consolidate memories during sleep. They found clear parallels to findings...
View ArticleRedox biomarker could predict progression of epilepsy
Approximately 2.9 million people in the United States suffer from epilepsy, according to the CDC. For patients living with this diagnosis and their doctors it is often difficult to predict the onset or...
View ArticlePoor children with epilepsy may face social hurdles
In a population-based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their...
View ArticleFive things you didn't know about epilepsy
Though it's the fourth most common neurological disease in the United States—affecting 1 in 26 people—epilepsy is also one of the most stigmatized. Hear the word "seizure," and you might picture a...
View ArticleResearchers find widespread disruption of brain activity during absence seizures
Scientists believed that absence seizures—the brief loss of consciousness often mistaken for day-dreaming—was caused by a localized disruption of brain activity. A new Yale study finds the entire brain...
View ArticleHuperzine A provides seizure protection in genetic epilepsy models
The compound huperzine A can increase resistance to induced seizures in mouse models of genetic epilepsy, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found.
View ArticleEpilepsy self-monitoring app joins the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme
An app designed and developed in the South West and which is benefiting the lives of thousands of people with epilepsy, EpSMon, is one of eight innovations to join the NHS Innovation Accelerator...
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