Sentences with phrase «absence epilepsy»

Two related potassium (K +) channel defects in benign familial neonatal convulsions (BFNC) have recently been identified.9 10 A defect in a receptor for a different neurotransmitter (acetylcholine) has previously been identified in a family with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE) 11, which was later shown to affect calcium (Ca +) movement.12 In humans, so far, there has not been any success in identifying genes associated with more common primary epilepsy syndromes such as juvenile absence epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME).13 No gene or marker linked to an epilepsy gene has been identified in any dog breed, as yet.

Altered cortical GABAA receptor composition, physiology, and endocytosis in a mouse model of a human genetic absence epilepsy syndrome.

Altered intrathalamic GABAA neurotransmission in a mouse model of a human genetic absence epilepsy syndrome.

As a graduate student, she studied the role of basal ganglia in regulating absence epilepsy and received an award for the best neuroscience PhD thesis in France.

The study is meaningful in respect to the fact that it calls into question the role of the T - type calcium channel in the reticular thalamus, and is expected to provide an important theoretical foundation for understanding its role in the mechanism of absence seizures, as well as developing effective treatment methods for absence epilepsy.

This may provide a potential explanation for why some children with absence epilepsy may have continued deficits in cognitive performance, despite successful treatment of their seizures.

Jeffrey Noebels and his team at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas used two genetic mouse models of absence epilepsy and compared them to unaffected mice.

New research shows that in a mouse model of childhood absence epilepsy, brain activity is perturbed between seizures.

This could help treat childhood absence epilepsy patients who experience comorbidities despite successful treatment of seizures.

Not exact matches

In laboratory research, rodent models of seizure activity, typically differentiate between absence seizures (a type of generalized epilepsy, in which electrical activity of the entire brain is affected), and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (a type of partial epilepsy, which only affects one hemisphere of the brain).

A faulty conduit into nerve cells that causes them to fire uncontrollably appears to trigger the brief seizures present in some forms of absence, or petit mal, epilepsy, say investigators from the...

Data analysis work concentrates on methods to analyze large - scale neurophysiological datasets to demonstrate the footprints of such critical balancing during wakefulness and its absence during loss of consciousness, anesthesia, epilepsy, and normal sleep.

Absence of CNTNAP2 leads to epilepsy, neuronal migration abnormalities, and core autism - related deficits.

The diagnosis of idiopathic epilepsy in the 146 affected dogs was based on a history of more than two seizures in the absence of other medical problems, as defined by normal physical and neurological examinations, as well as normal hematological, serum biochemical, and urine analyses.

CKCS were therefore further subdivided into two groups based on age and presence or absence of SM: the CM / SM group which comprised eighteen individuals under the age of 2 years with SM, all of which presented with clinical signs related to syringomyelia, and thirteen individuals over the age of 5 years with CM but without SM (the CM group), which presented for various reasons including idiopathic epilepsy (n = 4), intervertebral disc disease (n = 3), otitis media with effusion (n = 2), MR imaging screening programme for breeding (n = 3) and facial nerve paralysis (n = 2).