Epilepsy drug therapies to be improved by new targeted approach
New research from the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, has identified a protein that could...
View ArticleElectrically stimulating your brain can boost memory – but here's one reason...
The first time I heard that shooting electrical currents across your brain can boost learning, I thought it was a joke.
View ArticleNoted experts critically evaluate benefits of medical marijuana for treatment...
Although cannabis had been used for many centuries for treatment of seizure disorders, medical use became prohibited in the 20th century. However, with the loosening of laws regarding medical...
View ArticleBrain damage can make sideways faces more memorable, and give us 'emotion...
People with damage to a crucial part of the brain fail to recognise facial emotions, but they unexpectedly find faces looking sideways more memorable researchers have found.
View ArticleStudy examines self-management intervention in patients with epilepsy
A new study has found that a multi-component self-management intervention (MCI) for adults with epilepsy may be an important tool to increase efficiency in epilepsy care.
View ArticleEpilepsy biomarkers pave way for noninvasive diagnosis, better treatments
Researchers have identified a unique metabolic signature associated with epileptic brain tissue that causes seizures. The chemical biomarker can be detected noninvasively using technology based on...
View ArticleDespite lack of efficacy data, surprising consensus in pediatric...
The number of available anti-seizure medications has exploded in the past two decades, going from just a handful of medicines available in the 1990s to more than 20 now. Once the Food and Drug...
View ArticleGenetic testing helps detect cause of early life epilepsy
Chicago...A study published in JAMA Pediatrics supports the use of genetic testing, especially with sequencing, as first-line diagnostic method for young children with seizures. Specific genetic...
View ArticleNeuroscientists develop new forms of diagnosis and therapy for temporal lobe...
What if you fell off your bicycle today and ten years later you developed epilepsy? Relationships like this might appear far-fetched but are entirely possible, say Freiburg researchers. Using the...
View ArticleMost newborns with epilepsy benefit from genetic testing, study finds
Because of genetic testing, Orion Maynard's parents knew the cause of his epilepsy weeks after he was born. The results influenced his treatment, qualified him for immediate intervention services and...
View ArticleNumber of Americans with epilepsy at record level
(HealthDay)—More Americans than ever are living with epilepsy, federal health officials reported Thursday.
View ArticlePredicting brain surgery outcomes
For patients with a common type of epilepsy known as temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the only treatment choices are anti-seizure drugs or surgery to remove the focus of the seizures in part of the brain...
View ArticleHeat a trigger for seizures
Fever is the most common trigger for seizures in children between 5 months and 6 years of age. But the underlying cause is not always clear.
View ArticleRisk of prematurity, SGA up for women on antiepileptic drugs
(HealthDay)—Women on antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) during pregnancy for epilepsy or other indications are at increased risk of giving birth to premature and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants,...
View ArticleMore patients cope with diagnosis of epilepsy
As he was growing up, Paul Shaffer sometimes froze in his tracks and felt like he was walking away from his body.
View ArticleBrain activity between seizures in genetic form of epilepsy
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...
View ArticleCooling treatment reduces epilepsy in children
Cooling babies deprived of oxygen at birth (perinatal asphyxia) can reduce the number of children who develop epilepsy later in childhood, according to a new study published in the journal Epilepsia.
View ArticleMedial temporal lobe surgery linked to prevalence of tinnitus
(HealthDay)—Patients with epilepsy undergoing medial temporal lobe (MTL) surgery have increased prevalence of tinnitus compared with controls and participants with self-reported epilepsy (SRE),...
View ArticleLack of CLOCK protein appears key in severe epilepsy forms
A new study in Neuron focuses on the role that a lack of the protein "CLOCK" plays in several forms of epilepsy. The study provides evidence that excessive excitation of specific brain cells may be due...
View ArticleWristband devices detect dangerous seizures in patients with epilepsy
New research published in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), indicates that wristband devices may improve the detection and characterization of seizures in...
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