Sentences with phrase «abnormal brain activity»

A seizure is a sudden episode of abnormal brain activity that often involves some loss of body control.

One major insight draws on the fields of epilepsy and chronic pain syndrome, both of which are associated with abnormal brain activity.

There is typically a latent period after a stroke or injury when abnormal brain activity starts to emerge, but before any seizures begin.

A seizure is a sudden episode of abnormal brain activity that may cause loss of overall body control.

Previous studies from this group have shown that lowering tau levels reduces abnormal brain activity in models of Alzheimer's disease, but this is the first demonstration that tau reduction may also be beneficial in intractable genetic epilepsy.

Their findings link mutations in the SPTAN1 gene, which encodes α - II spectrin, with a distinctive phenotype: intractable infantile spasms accompanied by abnormal brain activity between seizures, lack of visual attention, development of an abnormally small head, severe brain atrophy, spastic quadriplegia, and severe intellectual disability.

With refinement, however, Baud believes the device will be able to detect abnormal brain activity caused by conditions like early onset sepsis, an infection of the bloodstream that can cause brain damage.

Mucke's team discovered that an FDA - approved anti-epileptic drug called levetiracetam suppressed abnormal brain activity and reversed memory loss in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease.

Over the past five years, researchers observed abnormal brain activity in the SHANK3 knockout mice when compared to controls.

Now, a portable, ultrasonic brain probe about the size of a domino could do similar work, detecting seizures and other abnormal brain activity in real time, according to a new study.

«This makes us very optimistic that we can alter abnormal brain activity and significantly reduce seizure initiation and spread.»

This manipulation, which they had previously found to prevent abnormal brain activity, also prevented the excessive accumulation of DSBs.

Dr. Paz thinks that the thalamus may serve as a «choke point» for cortical seizures and targeting this area can halt abnormal brain activity before it spreads further.

When individuals with migraine saw intense patterns, specific abnormal brain activity was observed by the researchers.

Seizures result from abnormal brain activity, the cause of which is not always understood.

These findings suggest that preschool children with high levels of disruptive behavior may show abnormal brain activity during certain self - regulation sub-processes, informing potential advances in conceptualizing and treating early disruptive behavior.

All types of epilepsy are the result of abnormal brain activity, regardless of how it starts or whether it manifests as a typical convulsive seizure or as a more subtle seizure that causes a person to be confused, feel odd, or momentarily lose awareness of what they are doing or what is happening to them.

Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices.

In the study, they show how levetiracetam — a drug commonly prescribed for patients who suffer from epilepsy — suppresses abnormal brain activity and restores memory function in these mice.

Experts believe migraine headaches are caused by abnormal brain activity, including dilation and constriction of the blood vessels within the brain.

Abnormal brain activity in psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is thought to stem in part from impaired function of the NMDA receptor.

Similarly, abnormal brain activity and processing is well known in the field of seizure disorders; temporal lobe epilepsy has been traced to a phenomenon called limbic kindling, in which repeated, intermittent, low - intensity stimulation across the limbic structures of the brain may eventually lead to a seizure.

From there they will work their way up to humans, eventually creating a computer version accurate enough to be used to research normal and abnormal brain activity.

This creates «virtual patients» with symptoms that can literally be switched on and off with a snap of the fingers, making it easier to study the abnormal brain activity that causes them.

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by abnormal brain activity and seizures that affects more than 65 million people worldwide.

Ordinarily, Alzheimer's - model mice have cognitive deficits, abnormal brain activity, and premature death, but raising klotho levels ameliorated these problems.

The main symptom of this abnormal brain activity results in repeated seizures, which can range from brief lapses to severe and prolonged convulsions.

The main symptom of this abnormal brain activity results in repeated seizures, which can range from brief lapses to severe and prolonged convulsio...

In dogs one to six years of age the most common cause of seizures is epilepsy, an undefined seizure disorder where the cause of the abnormal brain activity is unknown.

He blacked out at the wheel in what doctors are suspecting as an unusual circumstance of abnormal brain activity.