Sentences with phrase «brain seizures»

«Now we have an explanation for why some patients with breast cancer also experienced brain seizures,» adds Pao.

Several weeks later they injected the rats with chemicals that trigger brain seizures, to mimic epilepsy.

Epilepsy involves brain seizures due to abnormal electrical discharges of the brain, and I spent my entire undergraduate years working in a lab that studied epilepsy.

Xavier is in his 90s and resents people calling him an «octogenarian»; he needs black - market meds to prevent brain seizures which cause telekinetic earthquakes all around him.

By then, I'd recovered from two massive brain seizures that left me permanently disabled, run the London Marathon, countless triathlons and, in August 2007, competed in Ironman UK.

The research, published this month in PNAS, shows that the gene known as BRCA1 has a significant role in creating healthy brains in mice and may provide a hint as to why some women genetically prone to breast cancer experience brain seizures.

Now 5, he has been through weeks of hospitalization and has had more than a thousand brain seizures.

An earlier study using that model showed that the algorithms in the model can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.

Thirty - four seconds later her brain seizure stopped and her second toe stayed coiled around the big one, like crossed fingers hoping she would stay well.

The similarity, scientists now say, is more than metaphor: Techniques developed for predicting earthquakes may someday be used to warn patients that a brain seizure is on the way.

The researchers were even able to identify where in the brain the seizures started by tracking the waves of increased blood flow that occur during such an event, they report today in Science Translational Medicine.

In this study, seven people with severe epilepsy were hospitalized for a monitoring procedure that tries to identify where in the brain seizures originate.

Using brain data crowdsourced from 22 epilepsy patients with implanted electrodes, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania led by Danielle Bassett have developed a series of algorithms that can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.

There are only two possible causes for fainting in animals, either they have neurological problems (e.g., brain seizures) or cardiac problems (e.g., unusual heart beat).

We are being told it is brain seizures or tumors still doesn't make it easy to accept.

A brain seizure at birth had left Jenna with cerebral palsy, but Johnson refused to give up hope.