Sentences with phrase «by epileptic»

«$ 11 Million Verdict Against Pizza Hut for Accident Caused by Epileptic Delivery Driver Main Ohio Man Gets Probation for DWI (Daddying While Intoxicated)»

«Texas Federal Judge Rips City Council for Rejecting Settlement Main $ 11 Million Verdict Against Pizza Hut for Accident Caused by Epileptic Delivery Driver»

We've also referenced service dogs employed by epileptic patients, potentially warning their owners of an impending episode and attracting the attention of others.

These fats are often used by epileptic patients on a ketogenic diet, in order to increase ketone levels while allowing for a bit more carbs in the diet (2).

Yesterday, during circle time, one of my four - year - old friends was attacked by an epileptic seizure.

The technology was inspired by their epileptic mom and 2,600 people are testing it.

Not exact matches

I do not debate with people who think we should treat epilepsy by casting demons out of the epileptic person; I do not waste time engaging those medical opinions that suggest that bleeding the patient might release the infection.

For example, we now know epilepsy is not caused by evil spirits, nor are epileptic seizures caused by demon possession.

For example, we now know epilepsy is not caused by evil spirits, nor are epileptic seizures caused by demonic possession.

They believed disease was caused by evil spirits and that epileptic seizures were caused by demonic possessions.

Following this in Matthew and Luke is the healing of the epileptic boy (Matthew 17:14 - 21 and Luke 9:37 - 43); and a second prediction of his death by Jesus (17:22 - 23 and 9:43 - 45).

That is why, as Traversi says, Dostoevsky's hero - mystics are driven by their thirst for this God «into straining the boundaries of human experience, so that their ecstasy inevitably coincides with the dissolution of the personality into epileptic idiocy.»

Medical materialism finishes up Saint Paul by calling his vision on the road to Damascus a discharging lesion of the occipital cortex, he being an epileptic.

Though she misidentified the biblical figures, she reminded one correspondent of the plea issued by the father of an epileptic boy whom Jesus heals (in Mark 9:24): «1 believe.

Matthew calls the boy an epileptic; Mark and Luke say that he was possessed by a spirit.

Their hypothesis was borne out by a comparison to similar neuronal death in epileptic animals versus healthy ones.

The scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University, led by Peter McPherson, along with collaborators in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany, and at SickKids Hospital and the University of Toronto, have discovered that a severe form of epileptic encephalopathy is caused by recessive loss - of - function mutations in the gene DENND5A.

«Taken together, our results suggest that SCN8A mutations in people with early - infantile epileptic encephalopathy may increase the risk of SUDEP by creating an environment in which the heart has a higher susceptibility to arrhythmias,» explains author Chad Frasier, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan.

«New analysis of brain network activity offers unique insight into epileptic seizures: Researchers are exploring «evolving epileptic brain networks» to gain a better understanding of brain activity in epilepsy patients and the roles played by different regions of the brain.»

In fact, roughly 25 percent of epileptic seizures can't be controlled by any of the therapies available today.

For example, neural excitation is thought to induce form constants, the dynamic patterns I saw when I closed my eyes under the influence of peyote; these are also generated by migraines, epileptic seizures, and other brain disorders.

In my research I found a case study of a woman who had an orgasm each time she brushed her teeth (followed by a mild epileptic seizure).

By comparing this region with the DNA from epileptics from six other families, the researchers gradually homed in on a gene called KCNQ2.

Both explore the unique access to the brain afforded by patients whose epileptic seizures have proved resistant to drugs.

Triheptanoin is an investigational medicine being developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals for patients with fatty - acid metabolism disorders and Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome, which leads to epileptic seizures in young children.

«An important goal of this field has been to identify the molecular mechanism by which status epilepticus transforms a brain from normal to epileptic,» said McNamara.

As with many other epileptic syndromes, LKS children often resume normal brain activity around age 15, when the brain cells are reaching toward maturation, perhaps spurred by hormonal change.

He is said to have suffered from depression after the injury, and he died in 1860 as a result of epileptic seizures brought on by the event.

In a 2001 study Niels Birbaumer and his colleagues at Tuebingen worked with epileptics who had not been helped by conventional medical therapies.

It is characterized by an inflammation of the brain, which can result in neurological and psychiatric symptoms, including psychoses, epileptic seizures and movement disorders.

«Our findings confirmed the presence of serious dysfunction of the neuronal networks affected by Alzheimer's disease and confirmed our hypothesis that epileptic phenomena are an important component of that disturbance,» says Cole, who is a professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

The investigators tested this important finding, compensating for the deficiency in the nerve cells of epileptic rats by adding spermine back into the cell.

The lower level of spermine in the epileptic rat's brain was evidently caused by an upregulation of spermidine / spermine - N (1)- acetyltransferase.

Upton had previously worked with the company NeuroPace — founded by the inventor Robert Fischell and his sons David, a physicist, Tim, a cardiologist, and Scott, an M.B.A. — to develop an implantable brain defibrillator for epileptics.

Persinger was inspired in part by the Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, who studied epileptic patients in the 1950s.

Rather than estimating networks from individuals and then averaging them, we estimate networks at the epileptic and control group levels by using all the data at once.

«The ketogenic diet is thought to work by changing the way cells produce energy, and for reasons that are not fully understood, this shift in energy production calms the excitability within epileptic brains,» says Rho, professor and a member of ACHRI and the HBI.

A recent study by Michaud examining 200 children with epileptic encephalopathy — epilepsy combined with intellectual or overall developmental disability — and their parents could lead to the development of a more rational anti-epileptic treatment strategy.

Dorota Hoffman Zacharskaa and colleagues report a study done on report families presenting different and intrafamilial heterogeneous epileptic phenotypes accompanied by migraine, GEFS +, DS, Epilepsy and Mental Retardation Limited to Females (EFMR) of non-classical phenotype and West Syndrome (WS) with atypical course.

Dr. Paz seeks to improve this situation by investigating how epileptic activity is initiated and maintained.

Led by staff scientist Keith Vossel, MD, the team of researchers used sophisticated technologies to detect «subclinical» epileptic activity (too subtle to be noticed on standard clinical exams) and showed that Alzheimer patients with such activity had a faster cognitive decline than those without.

A failure of normal astrocyte generation by CNS precursor cells has been discovered to be a consequence of the mutations that cause Vanishing White Matter leukodystrophy [7], and dysfunction of astrocytes has also been suggested to be of importance in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [8], forebrain ischemic injury [9], epileptic seizures [10], Huntington's disease [11], tuberous sclerosis [12] and Rett syndrome [13].

«We might have some real insight into the advantages of dampening of synaptic activity that is caused by fasting,» said Haghighi, for example, how fasting can be beneficial for epileptic patients, who can experience reduced seizures when restricting calories.

Seizures triggered by stress look similar to epileptic seizures, mainly because they can have the same symptoms — numbness, confusion, convulsions, and more.

Biological activities of Lavender essential oil http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=21907890 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10460442 Essential oils as a cause of breakthrough seizure after temporal lobectomy Epileptic seizure induced by fennel essential oil.

In the 1920s, they were adopted by Johns Hopkins Medical Center as a means of treating epileptic children,...

Though it emerged that the majority cases of epilepsy could be efficiently restrict by using these medications, they were still unsuccessful to attain epileptic control in around 20 % to 30 % of epileptics.

It is very effective for weight loss and is also being used by doctors to control epileptic seizures.

Bottom Line: Epileptic children can reduce the number of seizures by adding coconut oil to increase the concentration of ketones in the blood.

It mentions how the ketogenic diet was first created by Dr. Russel Wilder in 1923 at the Mayo Clinic for successfully treating epileptic children who weren't responding to existing medical interventions.