Sentences with phrase «by an epilepsy center»
If you are being treated by an epilepsy center, you can also seek a second opinion at another epilepsy center if you have questions about the care that you are receiving.
https://www.naec-epilepsy.org/
In addition, patients may benefit from the advanced care provided by epilepsy centers if they continue to have seizures despite treatment with two medications, experience unacceptable side effects or are pregnant or want to become pregnant.
Not exact matches
«I was very nervous, afraid it might make things worse,» Vandyke said of the relatively new procedure that was being recommended to her by epilepsy specialists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
«Understanding the mechanisms that promote aberrant neurogenesis caused by traumatic brain injury and subsequent seizures may open new therapeutic avenues to prevent epilepsy and associated memory problems caused by impact,» said senior author Dr. Jenny Hsieh, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the UT Southwestern Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.
Selecting by state will display every epilepsy center in that state.
If your seizures have not been brought under control after three months of care by a primary care provider (family physician, pediatrician), further neurologic intervention by a neurologist, or an epilepsy center if locally available, is appropriate.
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is recognized by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers as a Level 4 Certified Epilepsy Center, the highest certification available from the NAEC, certifying that U-M provides the highest - level medical and surgical evaluation and treatments for children with complex epilepsy.
UT Southwestern's Epilepsy Program is accredited by the NAEC as a level 4 epilepsy center.
Wake Forest Innovations can help you solve these medical problems by getting you access to the researchers and clinicians at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to advance your preclinical or clinical research — from stroke and epilepsy to pain and addiction and everything in between.
According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, Hugh Conklin incorrectly theorized in 1922 that epilepsy was a side effect of something occuring in the intestines, and set out to cure it by fasting several children with seizures for upwards of 25 days.
Involuntary seizures are the most well known characteristic of epilepsy, which is often caused by brain malformations or tumors, head trauma and a variety of other diseases that cause lesions on the brain, according to Nancy Meers, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with the Children's Epilepsy Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
About Blog NAEC supports epilepsy centers in delivering quality comprehensive care to people with epilepsy, by setting standards of care, advocating for access to high quality epilepsy center services, and providing knowledge and resources to its member centers.